#88-Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the Coors Pole for the Kobalt Tool's 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway with a speed of 192.761mph for his 1st pole of 2010, his first since Texas in April 2008 [68 races ago] and 9th of his career, Earnhardt has never won a race from the pole.
The qualifying speed is the fastest ever for a Car of Tomorrow (COT), the previous fastest for the COT was last October at Charlotte, 192.376mph. The speed also was fastest qualifying speed since Carl Edwards ran 193.105mph at Texas in Nov 2007.
#18-Busch will start 2nd followed by #42-Montoya, #5-Martin, #24-Gordon, #9-Kahne, #39-Newman, #19-Sadler, #00-Reutimann and #99-Edwards. The points leader #29-Harvick will start 35th and the winner of the last two races, #48-Johnson, will start 16th.
The go-or-go homers who made the race (8): #71-Labonte, #66-Blaney, #36-Bliss, #13-Papis, #82-Speed, #87-Nemechek, #21-Elliott and #55-McDowell.
The go-or-go homers who failed to qualify for the race (3): #09-Almirola, #90-Mears and #46-Cook.
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#5-Martin 189.409
#18-Busch 189.260
#9-Kahne 189.202
#39-Newman 189.086
#42-Montoya 188.693
slowest: #90-Mears 179.907 and #26-Said 180.410
notes: #90-Mears lost an engine, team will put a new Pro Motors engine in the car
For fastest speed, average speed, laps run, see Jayski's Atlanta Practice Speeds Page.(3-5-2010)
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