Roush Ford driver Matt Kenseth has kicked off his Chase for the Sprint Cup campaign by scoring pole position at Chicagoland.
The 2003 Sprint Cup champion lapped the 1.5 mile venue in 29.47s to edge out Brickyard 400 winner Paul Menard (RCR Chevrolet) by 0.02s.
Kurt Busch (Penske Dodge), Ryan Newman (Stewart-Haas Chevrolet) and Carl Edwards (Roush Ford) round out the top five, while Australian Marcos Ambrose will line-up 17th.
“We had a great (turn) one and two… I just got tight off of four and started to shake the tires,” said Ambrose of his lap.
“I don’t know, we were close. I think with another quarter pound of tire pressure we might have had something.”
See below for the full qualifying result
|
POS |
DRIVER |
MAKE |
SPONSOR |
TIME |
BEHIND |
| 1 | Matt Kenseth | Ford | Crown Royal | 29.469 | Leader |
| 2 | Paul Menard | Chevrolet | Zecol / Menards | 29.488 | -0.019 |
| 3 | Kurt Busch | Dodge | Shell / Pennzoil | 29.503 | -0.034 |
| 4 | Ryan Newman | Chevrolet | U.S. Army Medicine | 29.507 | -0.038 |
| 5 | Carl Edwards | Ford | Aflac | 29.522 | -0.053 |
| 6 | Brad Keselowski | Dodge | Miller Lite | 29.531 | -0.062 |
| 7 | Greg Biffle | Ford | 3M Filtrete | 29.565 | -0.096 |
| 8 | Brian Vickers | Toyota | Red Bull | 29.575 | -0.106 |
| 9 | Kyle Busch | Toyota | Wrigley’s Doublemint | 29.615 | -0.146 |
| 10 | Joey Logano | Toyota | The Home Depot | 29.620 | -0.151 |
| 11 | Bobby Labonte | Toyota | Kleenex Cool Touch / Clorox | 29.634 | -0.165 |
| 12 | Jimmie Johnson | Chevrolet | Lowe’s / Kobalt Tools | 29.667 | -0.198 |
| 13 | Regan Smith | Chevrolet | Furniture Row Companies | 29.690 | -0.221 |
| 14 | Jamie McMurray | Chevrolet | McDonald’s | 29.696 | -0.227 |
| 15 | David Ragan | Ford | UPS “We Love Logistics” | 29.729 | -0.260 |
| 16 | Juan Montoya | Chevrolet | Target | 29.752 | -0.283 |
| 17 | Marcos Ambrose | Ford | Dewalt | 29.752 | -0.283 |
| 18 | A.J. Allmendinger | Ford | Best Buy | 29.767 | -0.298 |
| 19 | Dale Earnhardt Jr. | Chevrolet | Amp Energy / National Guard | 29.784 | -0.315 |
| 20 | Martin Truex Jr. | Toyota | NAPA Auto Parts | 29.787 | -0.318 |
| 21 | Clint Bowyer | Chevrolet | Cheerios / Hamburger Helper | 29.790 | -0.321 |
| 22 | Jeff Burton | Chevrolet | Caterpillar | 29.790 | -0.321 |
| 23 | Jeff Gordon | Chevrolet | DuPont | 29.807 | -0.338 |
| 24 | Kasey Kahne | Toyota | Red Bull | 29.812 | -0.343 |
| 25 | Mark Martin | Chevrolet | GoDaddy.com | 29.822 | -0.353 |
| 26 | Tony Stewart | Chevrolet | Office Depot / Mobil 1 | 29.828 | -0.359 |
| 27 | Denny Hamlin | Toyota | FedEx Ground | 29.879 | -0.410 |
| 28 | Trevor Bayne | Ford | Motorcraft | 29.894 | -0.425 |
| 29 | David Reutimann | Toyota | Tums | 29.900 | -0.431 |
| 30 | Kevin Harvick | Chevrolet | Budweiser | 29.913 | -0.444 |
| 31 | Landon Cassill | Chevrolet | Thank A Teacher Today | 29.973 | -0.504 |
| 32 | J.J. Yeley | Ford | Long John Silver’s | 29.980 | -0.511 |
| 33 | Michael McDowell | Toyota | James Fund | 29.990 | -0.521 |
| 34 | David Stremme | Chevrolet | Inception Motorsports | 29.991 | -0.522 |
| 35 | Scott Speed | Ford | Red Line Oil / International Trucks | 30.000 | -0.531 |
| 36 | Joe Nemechek | Toyota | NEMCO Motorsports | 30.016 | -0.547 |
| 37 | Robby Gordon | Dodge | Speed Energy / Mapei | 30.039 | -0.570 |
| 38 | David Gilliland | Ford | Taco Bell | 30.196 | -0.727 |
| 39 | Dave Blaney | Chevrolet | Big Red | 30.228 | -0.759 |
| 40 | Andy Lally+* | Ford | Interstate Moving Services | 30.238 | -0.769 |
| 41 | Casey Mears+ | Toyota | GEICO | 30.262 | -0.793 |
| 42 | Mike Bliss+ | Ford | Street King | 30.313 | -0.844 |
| 43 | Josh Wise | Ford | Bradley University | 30.136 | -0.667 |
| 44 | Travis Kvapil | Ford | Front Row Motorsports | 30.140 | -0.671 |
| 45 | David Starr | Ford | AdvoCare | 30.214 | -0.745 |
| 46 | Stephen Leicht | Chevrolet | Luke & Associates | 30.310 | -0.841 |
| 47 | Mike Skinner | Chevrolet | Big Red | 30.592 | -1.123 |
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