Logano’s No. 22 Penske team needed a lift after a pair of races at Talladega and Dover where he didn’t finish better than 29th.
He got one in the final round of Saturday’s qualifying, when he posted an average lap speed of 170.720 mph, just enough to hold off reigning series champion Kyle Larson (170.236 mph) for the pole in Sunday’s race at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway.
