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By Staff report | NASCAR.com Kyle Busch won the Coors Light Pole Award on Friday and will lead the field to green for Sunday's Sprint Cup Series Good Sam 500...

LaJoie is a member of the JGL Racing "Young Guns" program and is considered one of the rising stars in the sport. He will make his third start of the 2016 season for JGL Racing and the ninth XFINITY Series start of his career when he climbs aboard the No. 24 youtheory Toyota at Auto Club Speedway.

Ty Dillon led the final XFINITY Series practice on Friday, closing out the sessions at Phoenix. The Richard Childress Racing driver had a fast lap of 133.087 mph on his final run out of a total of 36 laps.

"The season has been good so far. It’s still a little early on the season as we all know, but I’m very proud and I give a lot of credit to my team. My team has been unbelievably good.

"I think we won with basically every package that NASCAR presented last year. We won at all sorts of types of tracks – all different types of tracks.

Ryan Blaney, driver of the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion, hits the track at Phoenix International Raceway this weekend and met with media members Friday after the opening practice session to discuss his prospects and the season to date.

JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE’S PRO SERVICES CHEVROLET SS met with media and discussed the new rules package, the tire, his opinion following last week’s race in Las Vegas, athletes on pit crews, and more.

KEVIN HARVICK, NO. 4 JIMMY JOHN’S CHEVROLET SS, met with members of the media at Phoenix International Raceway (PIR) and discussed his success at PIR, his plans to go home to Bakersfield, California next weekend, his plans for 2017 and many other topics.

Fans coming to the AXALTA Faster. Tougher. Brighter. 200 race at Phoenix International Raceway on Saturday, March 12 will have the opportunity to attend a Q & A session with Jeff Gordon, the legendary former driver of the No. 24 car. The event will be held on the Main Stage on the Fan Midway at PIR and is open for anyone with a grandstand ticket.

“It will be interesting to see how much fall off in the tires we see in practice and how that affects the race strategy,” he said. “In the past, two-tire strategies have been effective at Phoenix, allowing you to gain track position and maintain it throughout the next stint.”