Denny Hamlin claims Busch Light pole at Chicagoland

Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin claimed the Busch Light Pole Award for Sunday evening’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Chicagoland Speedway (6 p.m. ET, TNT Sports, truTV, HBO Max, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).Hamlin set the pace in Saturday afternoon’s qualifying session with a lap of 30.296 seconds at 178.241 mph, barely edging Hendrick Motorsports’ Kyle Larson by one-thousandth of a second. Larson clocked a 30.297-second lap at 178.235 mph in his No. 5 Chevrolet.RELATED: