Casey Mears will start Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint Cup event from the pole after rain washed out qualifying at Bristol Motor Speedway. Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images for NASCAR
Five years after he won his last NASCAR Sprint Cup Series pole, Casey Mears will start from the top spot for Saturday’s Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway.
It was a fast car that put Mears on the pole Friday. It was a slow-moving thunderstorm that washed out time trials and forced NASCAR to start the race, as the rule book dictates, based on speeds from the first practice session.
Mears topped the speed chart at 122.209 mph in qualifying trim in Friday’s opening practice, thereby earning the top spot on the grid.
“It’s been a long couple of years but the team’s grown in strides,” said Mears, a sometimes start-and-park driver who plans to run the entire race at Bristol. “We’ve shown a lot of improvement, but still have a lot to learn. . . . It gives us a big head-start from where we’ve been in the past.”
Brad Keselowski will start second, followed by Cup points leader Greg Biffle and Joey Logano. Aric Almirola, Jeff Burton, Paul Menard, Denny Hamlin, Marcos Ambrose and Kyle Busch will take the green flag from positions five through 10, respectively.
Mears has three career poles, the last coming in 2007 at Chicagoland Speedway, in a car owned by Rick Hendrick. Mears won his first two poles with Chip Ganassi Racing in 2004, at Pocono and Indianapolis.
Jimmie Johnson, who was 41st fastest of 47 drivers in practice, will start 37th, because four drivers ahead of him on the speed chart — Scott Speed, Kelly Bires, Reed Sorenson and JJ Yeley — failed to make the field under NASCAR’s rainout rules, which feature the number of qualifying attempts and owner points position as the first two tiebreakers.
Dale Earnhardt Jr., third in the series standings, will start 16th, followed by Matt Kenseth, who is second in points, 20 behind Biffle, his Roush Fenway Racing teammate. Danica Patrick, who was slowest in both Friday practice sessions but has a guaranteed spot in the field on owner points, will start 43rd.
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Bristol Motor Speedway – Bristol, TN
IRWIN Tools Night Race Qualifying – Aug. 24, 2012
1 13 Casey Mears 2012 Owner Points 28th
2 2 Brad Keselowski 2012 Owner Points 5th
3 16 Greg Biffle 2012 Owner Points 1st
4 20 Joey Logano 2012 Owner Points 19th
5 43 Aric Almirola 2012 Owner Points 23rd
6 31 Jeff Burton 2012 Owner Points 21st
7 27 Paul Menard 2012 Owner Points 16th
8 11 Denny Hamlin 2012 Owner Points 10th
9 9 Marcos Ambrose 2012 Owner Points 17th
10 18 Kyle Busch 2012 Owner Points 14th
11 24 Jeff Gordon 2012 Owner Points 15th
12 5 Kasey Kahne 2012 Owner Points 11th
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14 78 Regan Smith 2012 Owner Points 25th
15 56 Martin Truex Jr. 2012 Owner Points 6th
16 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 2012 Owner Points 3rd
17 17 Matt Kenseth 2012 Owner Points 2nd
18 38 David Gilliland 2012 Owner Points 29th
19 39 Ryan Newman 2012 Owner Points 13th
20 51 Kurt Busch 2012 Owner Points 27th
21 14 Tony Stewart 2012 Owner Points 9th
22 55 Brian Vickers 2012 Owner Points 18th
23 15 Clint Bowyer 2012 Owner Points 7th
24 34 David Ragan 2012 Owner Points 31st
25 36 Dave Blaney 2012 Owner Points 35th
26 1 Jamie McMurray 2012 Owner Points 20th
27 99 Carl Edwards 2012 Owner Points 12th
28 42 Juan Pablo Montoya 2012 Owner Points 24th
29 22 Sam Hornish Jr. 2012 Owner Points 22nd
30 98 Michael McDowell 2012 Owner Attempts
31 30 David Stremme 2012 Owner Attempts
32 26 Josh Wise 2012 Owner Attempts
33 83 Landon Cassill 2012 Owner Points 32nd
34 19 Mike Bliss 2012 Owner Attempts 17
35 23 Scott Riggs 2012 Owner Attempts 21
36 47 Bobby Labonte 2012 Owner Points 26th
37 48 Jimmie Johnson 2012 Owner Points 4th
38 33 Stephen Leicht 2012 Owner Attempts
39 49 Jason Leffler 2012 Owner Attempts 20
40 87 Joe Nemechek 2012 Owner Attempts
41 93 Travis Kvapil 2012 Owner Points 30th
42 32 Ken Schrader 2012 Owner Points 34th
43 10 Danica Patrick 2012 Owner Points 33rd
Did Not Qualify: Scott Speed,Kelly Bires, Reed Sorenson, JJ Yeley
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