NASCAR at Las Vegas 2017 Qualifying Results: Race Order, Final Times, Reaction

Brad Keselowski won last year's Kobalt 400 in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. This year, he'll start the race atop the poll. 

Keselowski topped all qualifiers with a top time of 27.881, per NASCAR.com. It will be the first time he's sat on the pole in nine tries at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, according to Joe Menzer of Fox Sports.

Martin Truex Jr., Ryan Blaney, Matt Kenseth and Kyle Larson rounded out the top five. You can see the full qualifying times and race order below:

Position	Car	Driver	Time	Speed
1	2	Brad Keselowski	27.881	193.680
2	78	Martin Truex Jr.	27.913	193.458
3	21	Ryan Blaney	27.920	193.410
4	20	Matt Kenseth	27.923	193.389
5	42	Kyle Larson	27.956	193.161
6	22	Joey Logano	27.959	193.140
7	5	Kasey Kahne	27.960	193.133
8	77	Erik Jones	28.071	192.369
9	18	Kyle Busch	28.072	192.362
10	1	Jamie McMurray	28.072	192.362
11	19	Daniel Suarez	28.130	191.966
12	24	Chase Elliott	28.266	191.042
13	14	Clint Bowyer	28.034	192.623
14	27	Paul Menard	28.062	192.431
15	11	Denny Hamlin	28.073	192.356
16	48	Jimmie Johnson	28.086	192.267
17	41	Kurt Busch	28.112	192.089
18	88	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	28.115	192.068
19	4	Kevin Harvick	28.169	191.700
20	6	Trevor Bayne	28.178	191.639
21	31	Ryan Newman	28.195	191.523
22	3	Austin Dillon	28.268	191.029
23	47	AJ Allmendinger	28.326	190.638
24	13	Ty Dillon	28.592	188.864
25	37	Chris Buescher	28.336	190.570
26	95	Michael McDowell	28.361	190.402
27	34	Landon Cassill	28.390	190.208
28	10	Danica Patrick	28.428	189.954
29	17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	28.488	189.553
30	43	Aric Almirola	28.511	189.401
31	32	Matt DiBenedetto	28.752	187.813
32	38	David Ragan	28.921	186.716
33	72	Cole Whitt	29.071	185.752
34	83	Corey LaJoie	29.102	185.554
35	23	Gray Gaulding	29.188	185.008
36	33	Jeffrey Earnhardt	29.569	182.624
37	15	Reed Sorenson	29.950	180.301
38	55	Derrike Cope	30.428	177.468
39	51	Timmy Hill	30.879	174.876

While much of the field was strong in the first two turns on the track before, Keselowski was exactly the opposite, which even surprised him somewhat after the race.

"I don't know what the answer is," he told Reid Spencer of NASCAR.com. "I'll have to look through a bunch of data, and the smart guys —the engineers and crew chiefs—will probably point some of that stuff out to me. But, yeah, every time I looked at the tracker, the cars that were fast in one and two weren't in three and four, and we were the opposite. We were really good in three and four...but we'll take it either way."

You can see his performance below, via Fox Sports NASCAR:

It's certainly been a good week for Keselowski, as XFINITY RACING noted:

Like Keselowski, Truex had more success on his approach to the latter turns in qualification. And like Keselowski, he was a bit surprised by that fact.

"All in all, I felt like we just missed the pace a little bit," he told Spencer. "We were really strong in practice and thought (the track) would pick up quite a bit of speed tonight, and it didn't. That threw us a little bit of a curve and kind of hurt our setup. It was a good recovery. We made a lot of changes as qualifying went on and got better at the end. That's all you can ask for."

Truex and Keselowski had the fastest cars in practice, so Friday's result didn't come as a major surprise.

One footnote, however: Erik Jones, Truex and Kasey Kahne were all been penalized 15 minutes of Saturday practice time for pre-qualifying inspection violations, according to Menzer. Jones also lost his pit selection for Sunday's race.

The Kobalt 400 will take place at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway at 3:30 p.m. ET on Fox.