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  • Rain Washes Away Dover Sprint Cup Qualifying; Keselowski On Pole

    Rain Washes Away Dover Sprint Cup Qualifying; Keselowski On Pole

    A persistent rain forced NASCAR to cancel qualifying for the Sprint Cup Series race at Dover International Speedway on Friday. As per the NASCAR rulebook, the field will line up based on points with points leader Brad Keselowski leading the field to the green flag on Sunday.

    Dover has been one of the better tracks for Keselowski on the Sprint Cup circuit, with an average finish of 12.8 and a win in his 2012 championship winning season. Keselowski enters Sunday with a 35 point cushion on making the next Chase round.

    “It’s great… because we obviously have been having a great season, maybe not with what we had done on track today, but with what we had done throughout the course of the year and scoring a lot of points and winning races,” Keselowski said. “So it’s certainly still something to be very proud of, to be this far into the season and being [in] the points lead, so these are the perks you get when you’re in that position. We’ll take it.”

    Starting next to Keselowski will be Martin Truex Jr. Truex has long considered Dover, the site of his very first Sprint Cup win, a home race. The New Jersey driver has nothing to lose on Sunday, thanks to his win at Chicago a couple of weeks ago guaranteeing him advancement to the second Chase round. Kevin Harvick, who starts seventh, is the only other Chaser who is locked in.

    Kyle Busch starts third and Matt Kenseth starts fourth. Joey Logano rounds out the top five starters.

    The drivers on the Chase bubble will all start right next to each other, with Kyle Larson (+5) in 12th, Jamie McMurray (-5) in 13th, Austin Dillon (-5) in 14th, Tony Stewart (-11) in 15th, and Chris Buescher (-30) in 16th. Keselowski seemed to be happy about not having to start in the middle of that; “That should be compelling to watch. I won’t get to see it, but you will”.

    It’s the third straight Sprint Cup race at Dover where qualifying has been rained out; the last time qualifying was completed at Dover was in the spring 2015 race.

     

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  • Kenseth Wins Pole For AAA Texas 500; Stewart Breaks 200 MPH

    Kenseth Wins Pole For AAA Texas 500; Stewart Breaks 200 MPH

  • Kevin Harvick Sets New Track Record In Sprint Cup Qualifying

    Kevin Harvick Sets New Track Record In Sprint Cup Qualifying

    Kevin Harvick took the Coors Light Pole Award for the 5-hour ENERGY 400 Benefiting Special Operations Warrior Foundation with a new track record of 27.799 seconds or 194.658 mph. This is Harvick’s eighth pole in 477 Sprint Cup Series races and his second in 17 races at Kansas Speedway. This is his second pole and sixth consecutive top 10 finish in 2014.

    “Just have to thank everybody on my Jimmy John’s Chevrolet for all that they do,” Harvick said. “It was ‘Freaky Fast’ today so just have to put it all together tomorrow night when it counts. The pole is great, these guys have done a great job for qualifying.  It makes life a lot easier when you can have pit stall one.  Hopefully we can have a good night tomorrow night, but the weekend has gone good we had a great test here a few weeks ago and everything has carried right over.”

    Qualifying was uneventful with the exception of Aric Almirola’s brush with the wall in the final seconds of the final round of qualifying. The Richard Petty Motorsports Team will make repairs to the Farmland Industry’s No. 43 for tomorrow evenings race.

    Standouts that did not advance to the final round of qualifying include Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Clint Bowyer, Kasey Kahne and Austin Dillion.

    The only driver that did not qualify was Dave Blaney who missed the final position by .317 seconds.

     

    5-Hour Energy 400 at Kansas Speedway Starting Lineup

    Pos Car Driver Team Lap Time Speed
    1 4 Kevin Harvick Jimmy John’s Chevrolet 27.799 194.252
    2 22 Joey Logano AAA Insurance Ford 27.848 193.910
    3 2 Brad Keselowski Wurth Ford 27.906 193.507
    4 99 Carl Edwards Aflac Ford 27.952 193.188
    5 42 Kyle Larson # Target Chevrolet 27.972 193.050
    6 41 Kurt Busch Haas Automation Chevrolet 27.973 193.043
    7 31 Ryan Newman Kwikset Chevrolet 28.006 192.816
    8 14 Tony Stewart Bass Pro Shops/Mobil 1 Chevrolet 28.045 192.548
    9 10 Danica Patrick GoDaddy Chevrolet 28.059 192.452
    10 16 Greg Biffle 3M Novec Ford 28.128 191.980
    11 1 Jamie McMurray McDonald’s Chevrolet 28.157 191.782
    12 43 Aric Almirola Farmland Ford 28.372 190.328
    13 24 Jeff Gordon Axalta Coatings Chevrolet 27.950 193.202
    14 48 Jimmie Johnson Lowe’s Chevrolet 27.973 193.043
    15 55 Brian Vickers Aaron’s Dream Machine Toyota 27.976 193.023
    16 27 Paul Menard Shrock/Menards Chevrolet 27.995 192.892
    17 5 Kasey Kahne Farmers Insurance/Thankamillionteachers.com Chevrolet 28.005 192.823
    18 51 Justin Allgaier # Brandt Professional Agriculture Chevrolet 28.007 192.809
    19 3 Austin Dillon # Dow Chevrolet 28.024 192.692
    20 17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Zest Ford 28.032 192.637
    21 12 Ryan Blaney(i) SKF Ford 28.033 192.630
    22 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. National Guard Chevrolet 28.089 192.246
    23 15 Clint Bowyer Cherry 5-hour Energy for Special Ops Warrior Foundation Toyota 28.153 191.809
    24 18 Kyle Busch Snickers Toyota 28.463 189.720
    25 9 Marcos Ambrose DeWalt Ford 28.128 191.980
    26 78 Martin Truex Jr. Furniture Row Chevrolet 28.160 191.761
    27 13 Casey Mears GEICO Chevrolet 28.172 191.680
    28 20 Matt Kenseth Dollar General Toyota 28.197 191.510
    29 47 AJ Allmendinger Kingsford Charcoal Chevrolet 28.258 191.096
    30 11 Denny Hamlin FedEx Freight Toyota 28.265 191.049
    31 83 Ryan Truex # Burger King Toyota 28.322 190.665
    32 98 Josh Wise Phil Parsons Racing Ford 28.399 190.148
    33 23 Alex Bowman # Dr.Pepper Toyota 28.440 189.873
    34 7 Michael Annett # Accell Construction Chevrolet 28.520 189.341
    35 44 JJ Yeley(i) Phoenix Warehouse Chevrolet 28.542 189.195
    36 26 Cole Whitt # Iowa Chop House Toyota 28.550 189.142
    37 36 Reed Sorenson  Chevrolet 28.567 189.029
    38 34 David Ragan Taco Bell Ford 28.580 188.943
    39 38 David Gilliland Long John Silver’s Ford 28.649 188.488
    40 40 Landon Cassill(i) Carsforsale.com Chevrolet 28.744 187.865
    41 32 Travis Kvapil Mechanical Protection Plan Ford 28.784 187.604
    42 33 Timmy Hill Little Joe’s Autos Chevrolet 28.848 187.188
    43 66 Joe Nemechek(i) Kansas Farm Bureau Toyota 28.973 186.380