Ryan Blaney, the recent Cup champion who came within 0.003 seconds of Daniel Suárez, won the pole position to lead the field to green. Ford drivers own nine of the first 10 starting positions in Sunday’s race — including all four members of the Team Penske/Wood Brothers Racing alliance on the front two rows.

Ryan Blaney won his first pole position of the season – 11th of his career – Saturday morning at Atlanta Motor Speedway – his two Team Penske teammates, Austin

Ryan Blaney will start on the pole for Sunday's Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, as Fords took 10 of the top 11 spots in qualifying. Blaney earned his 11th career pole — and first at Atlanta — with a lap of 179.

Unlike the Daytona 500, Atlanta and the other NASCAR Cup Series races set qualifying during qualifying time trials.

NASCAR Cup Series' Ryan Blaney gets the pole position after Saturday’s qualifying session for Sunday's Ambetter Health 400 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.