Alex Bowman and Rick Stenhouse Jr. will lead the NASCAR Cup Series field to the green flag Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Bowman won the pole in his No. 48 Ally Chevrolet with a lap of 128.675 mph (14.912s). It is the second pole for Bowman and his Hendrick Motorsports team, the first time he’s had multiple poles in a season. It is the second pole for Bowman at Bristol (he started on the pole in the fall) and the seventh of his Cup Series career.

“It feels really good,” Bowman said of his starting position, “but I definitely want to dedicate this to Jon Edwards. A huge loss for everybody at HMS and for his family and everybody that was close to him. He was probably my favorite person at HMS, one of the good guys for sure, and he’s definitely going to be missed a lot.

“So, I’m proud of our Ally [No.] 48 team and excited for a tire management race. It’s going to be a lot of fun. We’ll see what we got.”

Edwards was Jeff Gordon’s long-time right-hand man and, most recently, served as Kyle Larson’s PR representative. He unexpectedly passed away earlier this week.

Stenhouse, who was fastest in practice, qualified second. Stenhouse’s fastest lap was 128.563 mph.

Kyle Larson qualified third (128.511 mph), Denny Hamlin qualified fourth (128.460 mph), and Ryan Blaney qualified fifth (128.305 mph). Hamlin enters Sunday on a two-race winning streak and is the defending winner at Bristol.

Ty Gibbs qualified sixth (128.228 mph), Christopher Bell qualified seventh (128.185 mph), AJ Allmendinger qualified eighth (127.903 mph), and Carson Hocevar qualified ninth (127.758 mph). Justin Haley rounded out the top 10 qualifiers (127.665 mph).

Josh Berry qualified 11th, Chase Briscoe qualified 14th, and Kyle Busch qualified 15th. Busch laid down his fastest qualifying lap and then spun through Turn 4 and slid down the frontstretch on his second lap but did not hit anything.

Brad Keselowski qualified 16th. Jesse Love, for his Cup Series debut with Richard Childress Racing, qualified 19th. Chase Elliott qualified 20th.

Bubba Wallace qualified 22nd, William Byron qualified 26th, and Tyler Reddick qualified 27th. Byron is the Cup Series point leader.

Joey Logano qualified 38th of 39 drivers. Logano got sideways off Turn 2 on his qualifying lap and slapped the outside wall with the right rear.

“I was just having to push it hard trying to make a fast lap,” Logano said. “It turned pretty good, and I got a little bit down on that apron there, and it kind of shoved me up. I kind of got free, and then I got into the looser stuff and hit the wall. The last few times we’ve qualified here in the Next Gen car it’s been kind of sketchy, to say the least.”

UP NEXT: The Food City 500 at 3 p.m. ET Sunday.