NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: Bank of America 500 at Charlotte - Race Line-Up

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series:Bank of America 500 at Charlotte - Race Line-Up

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series:Bank of America 500 at Charlotte - Race Line-Up

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Jeff Gordon put his No. 24 DuPont Chevrolet on the pole for the Bank of America 500, the fifth race in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. It is the four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) champion’s eighth pole at Charlotte Motor Speedway

Gordon has now won 69 career pole and is in a tie with Cale Yarborough for third on the all-time poles list.

Mark Martin, No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet, will roll off fourth in the 43-car field.

Dale Earnhardt, Jr., No. 88 AMP Energy/National Guard Chevrolet, with start eighth and four-time defending NSCS champion Jimmie Johnson, No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet, will start from the 10th position.

“It was a huge shock,” said Gordon, who is fourth in the Cup standings, 85 points behind leader Jimmie Johnson. “We just have not been qualifying good this year, and we haven’t qualified this well at Charlotte for 10 years. I felt like there was a time when we were almost like the pole kings—like Ryan Newman lately, when he comes to Charlotte.

“We used to qualify so well here, but competition and cars and different things changing over the years, we just sort of lost our way here, and I’ll be honest, [Thursday], the way it was going, I didn’t think we had any shot at this pole.” NASCAR.com

Other Team Chevy drivers in the Chase will start as follows: Jeff Burton-18th; Clint Bowyer-20th; Kevin Harvick-24th and Tony Stewart-29th.

Carl Edwards (Ford), A.J. Allmendinger (Ford) and Paul Menard (Ford) complete the top-five qualifiers.

POS	CAR	DRIVER	MAKE
1	24	Jeff Gordon	Chevrolet
2	99	Carl Edwards	Ford
3	43	A.J. Allmendinger	Ford
4	5	Mark Martin	Chevrolet
5	98	Paul Menard	Ford
6	18	Kyle Busch	Toyota
7	83	Reed Sorenson	Toyota
8	88	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	Chevrolet
9	19	Elliott Sadler	Ford
10	48	Jimmie Johnson	Chevrolet
11	39	Ryan Newman	Chevrolet
12	20	Joey Logano	Toyota
13	56	Martin Truex Jr.	Toyota
14	47	Marcos Ambrose	Toyota
15	2	Kurt Busch	Dodge
16	0	David Reutimann	Toyota
17	17	Matt Kenseth	Ford
18	31	Jeff Burton	Chevrolet
19	77	Sam Hornish Jr.	Dodge
20	33	Clint Bowyer	Chevrolet
21	82	Scott Speed	Toyota
22	16	Greg Biffle	Ford
23	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota
24	29	Kevin Harvick	Chevrolet
25	9	Kasey Kahne	Ford
26	6	David Ragan	Ford
27	1	Jamie McMurray	Chevrolet
28	9	Landon Cassill	Chevrolet
29	14	Tony Stewart	Chevrolet
30	110	Bobby Labonte	Chevrolet
31	12	Brad Keselowski	Dodge
32	78	Regan Smith	Chevrolet
33	46	Michael McDowell	Chevrolet
34	42	Juan Montoya	Chevrolet
35	26	Patrick Carpentier	Ford
36	38	David Gilliland	Ford
37	21	Bill Elliott	Ford
38	71	Andy Lally	Chevrolet
39	7	Robby Gordon	Toyota
40	36	J.J. Yeley	Chevrolet
41	37	Dave Blaney+	Ford
42	34	Travis Kvapil+	Ford
43	164	Jeff Green	Toyota

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