Jamie McMurray rolled right from victory lane in the Daytona 500 to the pole position for Sunday’s Auto Club 500 in Fontana, California. It is the fourth Coors Light Pole Award for the driver of the No. 1 Bass Pro Shops/Tracker Boats Impala and his first pole at the two-mile Auto Club Speedway.
McMurray’s Earnhardt Ganassi Racing teammate Juan Pablo Montoya will start his No. 42 Target Impala alongside after setting the second fastest time in today’s qualifying.
Six Team Chevy drivers captured top-10 starting positions for the 250-lap/500-mile race. Clint Bowyer put his No. 33 Cheerios/Hamburger Helper Impala fielded by Richard Childress Racing in the third starting spot. Kevin Harvick in the RCR No. 29 Shell-Pennzoil Impala will start in the sixth position.
Four-time defending NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson, No. 48 Lowe’s Impala will start seventh and his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Mark Martin, No. 5 GoDaddy.com Impala, captured the 10th starting position.
In total, 15 Chevy Impala drivers will take the green flag for Race No. 2 of the 2010 season.
Kasey Kahne (Ford) and Dave Blaney (Toyota) completed the top-five qualifiers.
POS CAR DRIVER MAKE 1 1 Jamie McMurray Chevrolet 2 42 Juan Montoya Chevrolet 3 33 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet 4 9 Kasey Kahne Ford 5 66 Dave Blaney Toyota 6 29 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 7 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 8 77 Sam Hornish Jr. Dodge 9 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 10 5 Mark Martin Chevrolet 11 0 David Reutimann Toyota 12 2 Kurt Busch Dodge 13 82 Scott Speed Toyota 14 31 Jeff Burton Chevrolet 15 6 David Ragan Ford 16 14 Tony Stewart Chevrolet 17 36 Mike Bliss Chevrolet 18 39 Ryan Newman Chevrolet 19 20 Joey Logano Toyota 20 17 Matt Kenseth Ford 21 12 Brad Keselowski Dodge 22 78 Regan Smith Chevrolet 23 83 Brian Vickers Toyota 24 9 Aric Almirola Chevrolet 25 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 26 47 Marcos Ambrose Toyota 27 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet 28 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet 29 43 A.J. Allmendinger Ford 30 55 Michael McDowell Toyota 31 99 Carl Edwards Ford 32 87 Joe Nemechek Toyota 33 71 Bobby Labonte Chevrolet 34 56 Martin Truex Jr. Toyota 35 16 Greg Biffle Ford 36 98 Paul Menard Ford 37 19 Elliott Sadler Ford 38 37 Kevin Conway* Ford 39 34 Travis Kvapil Ford 40 7 Robby Gordon+ Toyota 41 38 David Gilliland+ Ford 42 26 Boris Said+ Ford 43 13 Max Papis Toyota
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