Sunday, August 7, 2011

Hot! Keselowski Captures Pole For Coca - Cola 600 Charlotte - Sprint Cup

Brad Keselowski will start on the pole for that Coca-Cola nine hundred NASCAR's best battle of the growing season immediately after posting this quickest lap throughout Thursday night's being approved with Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Keselowski converted a lap at 192.089 m.p.h. surrounding the 1.5-mile Charlotte course regarding his next vocation Sprint Cup Series pole. He was the sole car owner whom topped your 192 m.p.h. mark.

He took a look at cooler trail temperatures, because sun's rays had by now set while they made his determining lap with his / her No.2 Penske Racing Dodge.

"When an individual look at the particular speeds, these people modify a great deal of below at Charlotte on the first cars and trucks that will go forth for the past motors through the perform speeds," claimed Keselowski, whom seemed to be sixth fastest with practice previously from the day. "You disruption that will to night, and the does items to the particular contest automobile which you you should not know. We tried out to become tiny bit prior to what this trail has been likely to do, also it seems as if the item proved helpful released regarding us."

Keselowski's first post while in the series came in September 2010 from New Hampshire, in which your dog collection the latest path determining record.

Earlier this specific month, Keselowski picked out up his / her first top-10 finish of the season using a third-place run at Darlington. He complete second for you to David Ragan inside the Sprint Showdown primary celebration for you to improve in to the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race previous Saturday at Charlotte. Keselowski happens to be 24th within points.

"It thinks good for me, but I look fantastic for everybody on the team," Keselowski said. "I've already been watching these types of males over the last few weeks, doing work until 6, 7 as well as 8:00 at night. They're simply just really busting his or her butts to generate progress, and we're obtaining there."

A.J. Allmendinger inserted his or her Richard Petty Motorsports Ford on the outside of post with a lap at 191.693 m.p.h.

Carl Edwards, existing things leader, capable third. Edwards earned this all- superstar affair here.

Denny Hamlin needed the fourth spot, then Jeff Burton, exactly who seemed to be fastest with practice.

Jimmie Johnson, some sort of six-time Charlotte race winner, qualified fifth, when David Reutimann, who seem to picked up this species eighteen months ago, along with Ragan were seventh and eighth, respectively.

Nationwide Series typical Ricky Stenhouse Jr. will become ninth around his very first Sprint Cup start. He will end up the 1st taxi driver to create his Cup debut while in the 600-mile kind at Charlotte seeing that Dale Earnhardt Jr. did it in 1999. Stenhouse is traveling the particular No.21 Wood Brothers Ford as opposed to Trevor Bayne, who can be likely to help to make his NASCAR give back within the Nationwide kind during Chicagoland subsequent week.

Clint Bowyer completed that top-10.

Other significant motorists plus their particular commencing positions include: Jeff Gordon (11th), Matt Kenseth (19th). Kyle Busch (21st), Tony Stewart (22nd), Earnhardt Jr. (25th), Kurt Busch (26th) along with Kevin Harvick (28th). Kurt Busch will be defending race winner.

Andy Lally, T.J. Bell, Scott Wimmer, Tony Raines along with Scott Riggs never qualify.

There is definitely very little track task already signed with regard to Friday. Sprint Cup teams will train all over again on Saturday.

Sunday's 600-mile kind with Charlotte is timetabled to start out just following 6:00 p.m. (et).

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