Denny Hamlin won the pole for the race with a time of 30.568 and a speed of . He said afterwards that he wished his team "were a part of it (championship four)...unfortunately[,] a couple mechanical things took us out of this Chase, but we're going to hopefully go out with a bang." Joey Logano, who qualified second, said that he wasn't "quite fast enough. It felt like after practice we didn’t get a qualifying run before the rain and it was an unknown to us. My team did a good job with the changeover to qualifying trim though and I am proud of what my team was able to do there, just wish we were a little faster in that third round.” Kyle Busch, who qualified third, said that where you qualify at Homestead "doesn't matter much. Nothing to hang our heads about right now.” Jeff Gordon, who qualified fifth for his 797th and final career start, said he's "having a blast. It's a win-win no matter what happens. When it goes the way it went in qualifying…man that’s fun. How could I not be having the time of my life? We have a very strong race car in this Axalta Chevrolet, obviously, because to be able to do that the next couple of runs; I’m pretty proud of those laps. I had to make up to this team what I did on the first run, so I was glad I was able to make it up. It’s pretty awesome to get top five. I’m really happy and proud of that.”
