Early Saturday evening at Chicagoland Speedway, it was Brian Scott – with a qualifying lap speed of 177.807mph – capturing the pole for tonight’s NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) enjoyillinois.com 300.
This was Scott’s second series pole of the 2014 season, his fourth series career pole and his second series pole at Chicagoland Speedway.
Series Rookie of the Year (ROYT) candidates, Ty Dillon (177.643mph) and Chase Elliott (177.381mph) will start second and third respectively, while Erik Jones (177.322) starts fourth and Kasey Kahne (177.136) fifth.
Rounding out the top-ten starting positions will be Sam Hornish, Jr. (177.090mph) starting sixth, Elliott Sadler (177.032) seventh, Ryan Blaney (176.759) eighth, Brendan Gaughan (176.615) ninth and Cale Conley (176.327) starts tenth.
With only 40 drivers attempting to fill the 40-car field, there was no one failing to make the starting lineup.
The 4th annual enjoyillinois.com 300 is scheduled to get underway around 8:50 p.m. (ET) this evening, and television coverage will be provided by ESPN2 beginning with their 8:00 p.m. (ET) NASCAR Countdown pre-race program.
| EnjoyIllinois.com 300 Qualifying Results | |||||
| Pos. | Car # | Driver | Best Speed | Best Time | Gap |
| 1 | 2 | Brian Scott | 177.807 | 30.370 | Leader |
| 2 | 3 | Ty Dillon # | 177.643 | 30.398 | -0.028 |
| 3 | 9 | Chase Elliott # | 177.381 | 30.443 | -0.045 |
| 4 | 20 | Erik Jones(i) | 177.322 | 30.453 | -0.010 |
| 5 | 5 | Kasey Kahne (i) | 177.136 | 30.485 | -0.032 |
| 6 | 54 | Sam Hornish, Jr. | 177.090 | 30.493 | -0.008 |
| 7 | 11 | Elliot Sadler | 177.032 | 30.503 | -0.010 |
| 8 | 22 | Ryan Blaney | 176.759 | 30.550 | -0.047 |
| 9 | 62 | Brendan Gaughan | 176.615 | 30.575 | -0.025 |
| 10 | 33 | Cale Conley (i) | 176.327 | 30.625 | -0.050 |
| 11 | 6 | Trevor Bayne | 176.257 | 30.637 | -0.012 |
| 12 | 42 | Kyle Larson(i) | 176.200 | 30.647 | -0.010 |
| Eliminated From Round 2 | |||||
| 13 | 60 | Chris Buescher # | 175.239 | 30.815 | -0.168 |
| 14 | 16 | Ryan Reed # | 175.182 | 30.825 | -0.010 |
| 15 | 7 | Regan Smith | 174.025 | 31.030 | -0.205 |
| 16 | 99 | James Buescher | 173.544 | 31.116 | -0.086 |
| 17 | 39 | Ryan Sieg # | 173.088 | 31.198 | -0.082 |
| 18 | 28 | J.J. Yeley | 172.662 | 31.275 | -0.077 |
| 19 | 31 | Dylan Kwasniewski # | 172.623 | 31.282 | -0.007 |
| 20 | 84 | Chad Boat | 172.496 | 31.305 | -0.023 |
| 21 | 51 | Jeremy Clements | 172.139 | 31.370 | -0.065 |
| 22 | 19 | Mike Bliss | 171.832 | 31.426 | -0.056 |
| 23 | 25 | John Wes Townley (i) | 171.581 | 31.472 | -0.046 |
| 24 | 01 | Landon Cassill | 171.505 | 31.486 | -0.014 |
| Eliminated From Round 1 | |||||
| 25 | 14 | Eric McClure | 171.478 | 31.491 | -0.005 |
| 26 | 43 | Dakoda Armstrong # | 171.108 | 31.559 | -0.068 |
| 27 | 44 | David Starr | 170.315 | 31.706 | -0.147 |
| 28 | 40 | Josh Wise(i) | 169.657 | 31.829 | -0.123 |
| 29 | 4 | Jeffrey Earnhardt | 169.125 | 31.929 | -0.100 |
| 30 | 17 | Tanner Berryhill | 168.771 | 31.996 | -0.067 |
| 31 | 52 | Joey Gase | 168.261 | 32.093 | -0.097 |
| 32 | 74 | Kevin Lepage | 168.078 | 32.128 | -0.035 |
| 33 | 10 | Blake Koch | 167.183 | 32.300 | -0.172 |
| 34 | 55 | Jamie Dick | 166.904 | 32.354 | -0.054 |
| 35 | 70 | Derrike Cope | 166.103 | 32.510 | -0.156 |
| 36 | 72 | Carl Long | 165.693 | 32.601 | -0.091 |
| 37 | 87 | Joe Nemechek(i) | 164.059 | 32.915 | -0.314 |
| 38 | 23 | Robert Richardson, Jr | 163.325 | 33.063 | -0.148 |
| 39 | 93 | Mike Harmon | Owner Points | ||
| 40 | 46 | Ryan Ellis | 165.032 | 32.721 | 0.000 |
(i) Ineligible for Driver Points in this Series, # – Rookie
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