TALLADEGA, Ala. — Chase Elliott wasn’t born yet when his father turned a record-setting lap to win the pole at Talladega Superspeedway.

He’ll get to experience leading the field to green just like his dad did, though, after winning the pole himself on Saturday, 30 years after Bill Elliott’s blistering qualifying run.

Elliott turned a lap at 192.661 miles per hour to put his Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet in the top position for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Geico 500. Bill Elliott won the pole in 1986 with a lap at 212.229 m.p.h.

‘‘This is definitely a special place,’’ said Chase Elliott, who grew up in Dawsonville, Ga., which is 170 miles from Talladega. ‘‘This has always been a special place to him and it’s certainly great to be here and have the opportunity.’’

Elliott also won the pole for the season-opening Daytona 500, but he crashed and finished 37th. He’s back in the same car he drove at Daytona, and he credited his No. 24 team and the Hendrick engine department for giving him such a good car.

‘‘Man, this is cool,’’ he said. ‘‘Those guys do such a good job. And as I said in Daytona, this had nothing to do with me. This is the car that we had. This is the same car we had in Daytona. They brought another fast one here.’’

It’s the fifth pole in the last six restrictor-plate races for the No. 24 Chevrolet. Jeff Gordon won three of those poles before he retired and turned the car over to Elliott this season.

Elliott is eager to finish his first plate race in the Sprint Cup Series.

‘‘Obviously I have a lot to learn,’’ he said. ‘‘The race last time at Daytona didn’t go so good. Hopefully for me, I'll just try to take what I learned and try to cut down those dumb mistakes that I made in the Daytona 500 this year and just try to be smarter. The first thing is making it to the end and obviously I didn’t do a very good job of that in February. Our first goal is to try to get to the end of the race; and if we can get there, just try to be smart.’’

Austin Dillon qualified second for Sunday’s race with a lap at 192.424.

Driving the No. 3 Chevrolet that the late Dale Earnhardt drove to nine of his record 10 Talladega victories, Dillon hoped to give grandfather Richard Childress another trip to Victory Lane.

‘‘There’s a lot of history here with Dale and RCR,’’ Dillon said. ‘‘A lot of good stuff happened with RCR here, so hopefully we can continue that streak of good runs for RCR here. We've got a car capable of doing that, obviously, with the qualifying effort, and I'd love for it to be my first Cup win.’’

Defending race winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. qualified third to give Hendrick three cars in the top five. Jimmie Johnson qualified fifth.

Matt Kenseth qualified fourth in a Toyota, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Brad Keselowski were sixth and seventh in Fords, and Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin qualified eighth.

Carl Edwards qualified ninth to join Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Kenseth and Hamlin in the top 10.

Tony Stewart will race Sunday only until the first caution, then he'll turn the car over to relief driver Ty Dillon.

Stewart missed the first eight races of the season with a back injury, returned to competition last week and doesn’t want to risk hurting his back again at Talladega. Dillon qualified the car 14th, but Stewart will drop to the rear of the field at the start on Sunday because of the driver change.

The car is fit for Dillon, who said, ‘‘I'm really comfortable in the car.’’

Dillon believes he has a shot to win the race, which would count toward Stewart’s victory total.

‘‘If all goes well with the switch and we stay on the lead lap and stay out of trouble, it’s Talladega, anything can happen and maybe we can get that win,’’ Dillon said.

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Elliott Sadler celebrated his 41st birthday Saturday with his first victory in almost two years.

Mired in a drought that dated to May 4, 2014, Sadler didn’t mind waiting through a five-minute postrace review by NASCAR­ to be named the winner of the Xfinity Series race at Talladega.

NASCAR had to determine who was the actual leader when a caution froze the field in overtime. Brennan Poole crossed the finish line first, but was denied his first career Xfinity Series win when NASCAR said the field was frozen with Sadler still ahead of Poole.

‘‘It’s a great birthday gift to me,’’ said an emotional Sadler. “Man, we needed this win.’’

Sadler’s last victory, just four days shy of exactly two years ago, also was at Talladega.

Poole harbored no ill-will over the final result, even though he was dropped to third. Justin Allgaier finished second.

Both Poole and Sadler sat in their idling race cars by the flagstand as NASCAR reviewed the finish.

‘‘Just glad that they were able to take the time to get it right, and happy they are able to get the trophy to the rightful winner,’’ Poole said. ‘‘I just wish it was us. I thought we had it, just a little shy there.’’

Sadler was chasing leader Joey Logano on the final lap when Logano tried to block Sadler­’s­ attempt at a pass for the victory. Logano went high for a block, then low, but Sadler spun him during the rapid lane changing. Logano’s car turned into the wall and created a crash that brought out the yellow flag.

‘‘I had my plan made up, I tried to get to the outside of Joey and he made a great block,’’ said Sadler, who credited himself with ‘‘a great save’’ after contact with Logano sent Logano into the wall and Sadler had to avoid also wrecking.

Allgaier also waited inside his car for the review because even though Poole nipped him at the finish line, he wasn’t sure if he was the leader when the field was frozen. He ultimately was scored second behind teammate Sadler.

‘‘I didn’t want to get out of my car because that seems like giving up,’’ Allgaier said. ‘‘The tape is the tape. It’s tough to lose one when it’s that close. They got it right.’’

Sadler is just the second Xfinity Series full-time driver to win this season. Sprint Cup drivers have won seven of the first nine races this season.

With the victory, Sadler earns an automatic berth into the Xfinity Series’ inaugural Chase for the championship.