Ryan Blaney got the better of Team Penske teammate Austin Cindric by .002 seconds to score the pole for Sundays NASCAR Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

It was Blaneys 11th career pole position and his first of the season.

Blaney led a Ford-heavy final round, which featured nine in total out of the 10 spots available in the chase for pole position.

Thats a really cool effort by the whole 12 boys, Blaney said. The BodyArmor Zero Sugar Ford Mustang was really good. It drove great. I think we got the 2 by like two one thousandths of a second, so that was close. I think it just shows the speed in all of our cars the Penske cars, the 21 is fast as well and also big props to everybody back home and everybody who is here Roush Yates Engines.

Hopefully, it carries over into tomorrow. Hopefully, they drive well, so it seems to be like we have a pretty decent handle on this place, but you still never know going into the race. Its a cool day today and looking forward to hopefully keeping all four of us up there tomorrow.

Behind the Team Penske front row was Josh Berry and the Wood Brothers Racing No. 21 Ford, who shares a technical alliance with Penske.

Defending Cup Series champion Joey Logano starts fourth while Front Row Motorsports Todd Gilliland completed the top five.

The lone non-Ford in the top 10 was Richard Childress Racings Kyle Busch, who starts sixth. FRM had all three cars in the top 10 with Zane Smith (seventh) and Noah Gragson (10th).

RFK Racing drivers Chris Buescher (eighth) and Brad Keselowski (ninth) completed the top 10.

Bubba Wallace was the fastest Toyota driver in 14th for 23XI Racing. Teammate Tyler Reddick (18th) was the only other Toyota inside the top 20.

Daytona 500 winner William Byron starts 16th aboard the famed No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet.