Denny Hamlin charges to pole position at Richmond Raceway

Denny Hamlin reacts to winning the Busch Light Pole Award at Richmond after being the slowest car to advance from the first round.

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00:00Let's step in and get his reaction as he and Chris Gaebhardt watch all these cars go.

00:06Did that surprise you?

00:07It seemed like your guy's reaction would indicate that.

00:10We're the slowest car in the first round, but, yeah, the team made a great adjustment.

00:15That's the bottom line to it.

00:17He told me if I backed up my time, we'd have a shot at it, but, you know, certainly a great

00:23job of this whole FedExGamery team.

00:26Certainly unexpected given kind of the practice and first round qualifying we had.

00:30What did your car do there that you felt like was the difference maker, even maybe compared

00:33to your two teammates there?

00:36We just made the correct adjustments that, you know, we're going to have to make for

00:40the race as well.

00:41So I think we're heading in the right direction.

00:44All right.

00:45Denny Hamlin on the pole for the third time this year and fourth time at Richmond.