Jamie McMurray won the pole for the Goody’s Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway behind the wheel of his No. 1 Widia Chevrolet. It is McMurray’s first pole at Martinsville, his first pole of the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season and his eighth career pole.
Ryan Newman, No. 39 Haas Automation Chevrolet, was the second fastest qualifier in the 43-car field for the 500-lap/263-mile race to make it an all-Chevrolet front row at the .526-mile track.
Kevin Harvick, No. 29 Budweiser Chevrolet, was ninth quickest followed by Regan Smith, No. 78 Furniture Row Chevrolet, to give Team Chevy four of the top-10 starters in race six of the 36-race season.
JAMIE MCMURRAY, NO. 1 WIDIA CHEVROLET, POLE SITTER: ON HIS QUALIFYING EFFORT TODAY:
“”That was a really good lap for us. I felt like when we ended Happy Hour yesterday that we had the best car in race trim. When we tried to make our qualifying run, we just couldn’t get up to speed and it felt like you needed three or four laps to get the tires hot enough. It has been an issue for everybody this weekend, getting enough heat in the tires in qualifying trim. They made a couple of changes to the car today and it was good. It really didn’t feel great, it was just uneventful. Normally when you qualify here, you get wheel hop, the car pushes. It spins the tires off the corners. You have a lot of stuff happen at once. It was a really good lap for us.”
POS CAR DRIVER MAKE 1 1 Jamie McMurray Chevrolet 2 39 Ryan Newman Chevrolet 3 4 Kasey Kahne Toyota 4 20 Joey Logano Toyota 5 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 6 43 A.J. Allmendinger Ford 7 47 Bobby Labonte Toyota 8 0 David Reutimann Toyota 9 29 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 10 78 Regan Smith Chevrolet 11 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 12 5 Mark Martin Chevrolet 13 83 Brian Vickers Toyota 14 6 David Ragan Ford 15 33 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet 16 27 Paul Menard Chevrolet 17 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 18 56 Martin Truex Jr. Toyota 19 9 Marcos Ambrose Ford 20 22 Kurt Busch Dodge 21 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet 22 2 Brad Keselowski Dodge 23 99 Carl Edwards Ford 24 17 Matt Kenseth Ford 25 21 Trevor Bayne Ford 26 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet 27 42 Juan Montoya Chevrolet 28 14 Tony Stewart Chevrolet 29 36 Dave Blaney Chevrolet 30 13 Casey Mears Toyota 31 38 Travis Kvapil Ford 32 31 Jeff Burton Chevrolet 33 16 Greg Biffle Ford 34 7 Robby Gordon Dodge 35 66 Michael McDowell Toyota 36 34 David Gilliland Ford 37 9 Landon Cassill Chevrolet 38 60 Mike Skinner Toyota 39 32 Ken Schrader Ford 40 37 Tony Raines Ford 41 46 J.J. Yeley Chevrolet 42 71 Hermie Sadler Chevrolet 43 87 Joe Nemechek Toyota
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