In the slugfest between Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards, Stewart won Round 1 on Friday, but it was Greg Biffle who led a Roush Fenway Racing Ford sweep of the top three starting spots at Texas Motor Speedway, an assault that didn’t include Edwards.
Stewart and Edwards, the top two drivers in the Chase for the Sprint Cup standings, will start fifth and seventh, respectively in the seventh Chase race, after Biffle, the last driver to make a qualifying attempt, scorched the 1.5-mile track with a lap at 193.736 mph to edge teammate David Ragan (193.729 mph) for the top starting spot in Sunday’s AAA Texas 500.
The Coors Light pole award was Biffle’s third of the season and the ninth of his career. NASCAR.com
Biffle’s lap, the fastest in all of the Sprint Cup qualifying sessions so far this year, was only 0.001 seconds quicker than Ragan’s lap.
Biffle and Ragan are not in this year’s Chase for the Sprint Cup championship field.
Matt Kenseth, also from Roush Fenway, was the highest finishing Chase driver in qualifying with a third-place showing. Kenseth won here in April. Fox News
POS CAR DRIVER MAKE 1 16 Greg Biffle Ford 2 6 David Ragan Ford 3 17 Matt Kenseth Ford 4 27 Paul Menard Chevrolet 5 14 Tony Stewart Chevrolet 6 0 David Reutimann Toyota 7 99 Carl Edwards Ford 8 2 Brad Keselowski Dodge 9 4 Kasey Kahne Toyota 10 78 Regan Smith Chevrolet 11 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 12 9 Marcos Ambrose Ford 13 21 Trevor Bayne Ford 14 22 Kurt Busch Dodge 15 42 Juan Montoya Chevrolet 16 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet 17 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 18 33 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet 19 56 Martin Truex Jr. Toyota 20 83 Brian Vickers Toyota 21 29 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 22 1 Jamie McMurray Chevrolet 23 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet 24 39 Ryan Newman Chevrolet 25 20 Joey Logano Toyota 26 43 A.J. Allmendinger Ford 27 55 J.J. Yeley Ford 28 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 29 51 Landon Cassill Chevrolet 30 5 Mark Martin Chevrolet 31 31 Jeff Burton Chevrolet 32 47 Bobby Labonte Toyota 33 13 Casey Mears Toyota 34 34 David Gilliland Ford 35 66 Michael McDowell Toyota 36 135 Dave Blaney Chevrolet 37 32 Mike Bliss Ford 38 37 Mike Skinner Ford 39 46 Scott Speed Ford 40 87 Joe Nemechek Toyota 41 38 Travis Kvapil+ Ford 42 36 Geoffrey Bodine+ Chevrolet 43 71 Andy Lally* Ford
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