Much to the disgust of the majority of fans in attendance at the Lowe's Motor Speedway on Friday Kyle Busch took pole position for the Coca Cola 600, the longest race of the Sprint Cup season.
With most fans yet to forgive Busch for his late race crash with Dale Earnhardt Jr at Richmond it was no surprise that Busch's second Coors Light pole award of the year in the #18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota was greeted with such apathy although after dominating the first half of last week's All Star race the fans could have to get used to watching the #18 Toyota circulating at the head of the field for a little while longer this weekend.
Of course with 400 laps of the 1.5-mile Lowe's Motor Speedway to negotiate, another victory for Busch is far from a foregone conclusion but after his engine failure last weekend it is hard to see Joe Gibbs Racing getting it wrong two weekends in a row and the driver nicknamed ‘Rowdy' certainly goes into Sunday evening's race as THE man to beat.
Starting alongside Busch on the front row of the grid will be All Star race winner Kasey Kahne, basking in some new found confidence with his #9 Gillett-Evernham Motorsports team. Brian Vickers, another driver with top five aspirations this weekend, will start third for
Red Bull Racing with Greg Biffle fourth in the leading Roush-Fenway Racing Ford.
David Ragan will start fifth alongside the best of the Chevrolet's in the form of Dale Earnhardt Jr with Mark Martin, Kurt Busch, Elliott Sadler and Jimmie Johnson completing the top ten.
Sam Hornish Jr was the fastest ‘go or go home' qualifier in the #77 Penske Racing Dodge and will start 20th with Sprint Showdown winner AJ Allmendinger 27th. Sterling Marlin qualified 26th as he continues to deputise for the injured Dario Franchitti while veteran Ken Schrader successfully qualified a fourth Richard Childress Racing entry in 33rd position.
Jeff Green, Stanton Barrett, Jon Wood, Joe Nemechek and Tony Raines failed to qualify.
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