MADISON, Ill. — Denny Hamlin scored his second consecutive pole of the Cup playoffs and will lead the field to the green flag in Sunday’s race at World Wide Technology Raceway (3 p.m. ET on USA Network).

Hamlin earned his 46th career Cup pole with a lap of 139.190 mph.

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“We were able to, very similarly to last week, make some great adjustments from where we were in practice –- and again, there is so much that is different from practice to qualifying when you are going for one lap — air pressures at a track like this is dramatically different, certainly, the intensity from which I drive is a lot different in practice than qualifying,” Hamlin said.

""They gave me all of the adjustments that I needed to have a really good handling car there and we were able to

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