DOVER, Del. — When the rain hit Dover, Kevin Harvick was prepared.

Harvick’s team made the call in the middle of the week to send the No. 4 Chevrolet out for practice in its qualifying setup because rain was forecast for Friday.

With a Sprint Cup starting lineup set by practice speeds in the event of a qualifying rainout, Harvick had a needed edge. He posted the fastest lap of 165.145 mph in the only practice at Dover International Speedway and starts first for the first time this season.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. joins Harvick on the front row for Sunday’s race. Joe Gibbs Racing placed Kyle Busch third and Carl Edwards fourth. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. rounded out the top five. Stenhouse earned his third top-five start of the season.

Harvick, who had not won a pole through the first 11 races of the season, won the fall race at Dover.

“The guys have done a great job prepping the cars and hit on some things that we like,” Harvick said. “It has worked well over the past few years.”

Here are some drivers looking to conquer the Monster Mile for the first win of 2016:

LOOSE LOGANO: Logano won the Daytona 500, five other races and had 22 top-five finishes in 2015. He’s winless with only three top-fives and crashed out of the last two races of this season.

TOUGH TRUEX: Truex, from Mayetta, New Jersey, has long considered Dover his home track. He has one of his three career wins at Dover and nine total top 10s on the mile concrete track. Truex has finished in the top 10 in three of the past four races. His win last season at Pocono Raceway propelled him into the Chase and he was one of four drivers racing for the championship in the season finale.