Pocono starting lineup: Pole-sitter Martin Truex Jr. leads Sunday's Toyota parade

Martin Truex Jr. threw another Toyota challenge at Sprint Cup competition on Friday, earning pole position for Sunday's Pennsylvania 400.

He wasn't along. Joe Gibbs Racing placed three cars in the top 10. Kyle Busch, winner last week at Indianapolis, will start 16th after a long delay getting through inspection.

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Martin Truex Jr. (Getty Images)

To secure his third pole start of the year, Truex cracked off a lap of 179.244. His car, allied to Gibbs through Furniture Row racing, has been a constant in this, Truex's best season. In addition to his impressive and dominant victory at Charlotte, Truex has three top-five finishes and nine top 10s, plus other races he had one of the best cars on the track.

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"I had good speed right off the trailer," Truex said. "We just need tweaking on it and getting better. We got the speed, now hopefully we’ll get to practice tomorrow to get it dialed in for Sunday."

Rain permitting, Sprint Cup's Sunday race begins about 1:30 p.m. ET. Kurt Busch won the 2016 spring race at Pocono, which was run a day late because of foul weather. Matt Kenseth, another Gibbs driver, is this race's defending champion.

It appears the five Gibbs allies could be in for another day of domination. Kyle Busch swept last weekend's competition, and all other Toyotas in the cabal have victories this season.

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In addition to the Gibbs five, the day was great for Richard Childress Racing's three cars. After ripping off the day's fastest times in practice, Paul Menard wedged himself into third starting position. Teammate Ryan Newman will start fifth, with Austin Dillon 12th on the grid.

Menard's team runs this week with new crew chief Danny Stockman in place.

"The car has been good since we unloaded and Danny spent a lot of time in the shop this week," Menard told media members. "And he's never been on a Cup team before, so he's been working with the guys and trying to get everything sorted out with the car for this weekend. This is a new style car that RCR debuted last week at Indy, and everybody at RCR worked out a lot of bugs with it and I think we've got it tuned up right now."

Here is Sunday's starting lineup.

Once again this week, Jeff Gordon is driving in place of Dale Earnhardt Jr.