SONOMA, Calif. — Martin Truex Jr. has won in Northern California wine country before and he just might do it again this weekend.
The 2013 winner here, Truex drove the No. 78 Furniture Row Racing Toyota to P1 on the board by posting a fast lap of 94.587 miles per hour late in the session.
That knocked off Denny Hamlin, who wound up second at the 1.99-mile road course with a lap of 94.068 mph in the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota.
Hamlin nearly swept the two Cup road course races last year, winning at Watkins Glen International after finishing second to Tony Stewart in the Sonoma race, where Stewart put him in the wall in Turn 11 on the final lap.