As the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series teams tuck their race cars away in the Sonoma Raceway garage area on Friday night, it appears that Chip Ganassi Racing may be the ones to beat yet again for the pole for Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 (3 p.m. ET/FS1/PRN/SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

Kyle Larson has put his No. 42 Chevrolet for CGR on the pole in each of the last two years on the northern California road course. His former teammate Jamie McMurray won back-to-back poles in 2013 and 2014 as this duo has combined to win four of the last six Sonoma poles.

Well, after final practice on Friday, CGR was 1-2 on the speed charts.

Larson, circled the 2.52-mile road course with a lap of 95.469 mph in the 80 minute final session. He was 13th in session No. 1.

His new teammate Kurt Busch was second to Larson on Friday as the Las Vegas native turned in a lap of 94.986 mph in his No. 1 Chevrolet. Busch, has seven top 10 finishes in his last eight Sonoma starts.

Larson, has never started worse than fifth before in Sonoma but despite that, he’s never finished in the top 10 either.

Third and fourth fastest in final practice belonged to the Stewart-Haas Racing camp with Aric Almirola (94.421 mph) and Clint Bowyer (94.273 mph) being third and fourth respectively.

Matt DiBenedetto (94.190 mph) rounded out the top five in the second and final session of the day.

Parker Kligerman (94.155 mph) was P6 to give us a bit of a surprise in the top 10. It was like that in the first session too.

Ryan Blaney (95.195 mph) was P2 in the first session. Blaney, isn’t known as much of a road course racer despite his win on the ROVAL last October. His finishes at Sonoma are – 23rd, 9th and 34th respectively.

Chris Buescher was third in that session in his No. 37 Chevrolet. Buescher, was at 95.040 mph. Michael McDowell (94.774 mph) rounded out the top five in his No. 34 Ford.

Two former winners in Martin Truex Jr. (95.326 mph) and Jimmie Johnson (95.035 mph) were quickest and fourth overall respectively.

The dual practice sessions were very key on Friday. See, this is the first year that the track officials expanded the racing surface to include the carousal.

In final practice, Kyle Busch got off track multiple times as he had a rough go of it. He wasn’t the only one to struggle a bit to stay on the track on Friday either.