Austin Dillon's mission at Richmond is to secure his place in the Chase for the Sprint Cup. Winning Friday's Xfinity Series race would be a bonus.
Ahead of Cup qualifying, Dillon outran the competition in the Virginia 529 College Savings 250. He will start as fastest qualifier when the green flag falls after 7:30 p.m. ET.
The rest of Friday's 10 fastest qualifiers: Alex Bowman, Justin Allgaier, Erik Jones, Blake Koch, Brad Keselowski, Kyle Busch, Elliott Sadler, Dakoda Armstrong and Daniel Suarez.
Dillon, Keselowski and Busch turned around and hopped in their Cup cars for qualifying that started about a half-hour after the Xfinity runs ended.