Tony Stewart qualified first during qualifying for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Advocare 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway Friday. Photo by Tyler Barrick/Getty Images
With the Chase imminent, Tony Stewart found speed at the right time, winning the pole for Sunday’s Advocare 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Covering the 1.54-mile distance in 29.787 seconds (186.121 mph), Stewart won his first Coors Light pole award of the season, his first at Atlanta and the 14th of his career. The 45th of 47 drivers to make a qualifying run, Stewart grabbed the top starting spot from series points leader Greg Biffle (185.648 mph), who felt he left a little speed on the racetrack.
Kyle Busch, seeking to strengthen his hold on the second wild card position in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, qualified third at 185.493 mph. Matt Kenseth (185.319 mph) will start fourth, followed by Jeff Gordon (185.307 mph) who is 16 points behind Busch for the second wild card spot.
Stewart credited teammate Ryan Newman for his qualifying success. Newman qualified 17th but discovered grip at the top of the track and briefed Stewart on the fast way around before Stewart made his attempt.
The advice paid off.
“I’m definitely not known as a qualifier, and I know I’ve got to give 100 percent of the credit to Ryan Newman,” said Stewart, the defending Cup champion. “He ran his second lap up there, and he made an effort to come down and help us there.
“I’m not sure, if we had run the line I was planning on running, that we would have been that fast. It’s awesome to have a teammate like that. He’s always thinking outside the box. If it weren’t for him, we wouldn’t be on the pole.”
Biffle was ambivalent about his front-row starting position.
“I got down in the middle of (turns) 1 and 2 and just hesitated to push the gas down, thought it was loose, sliding, and waited, waited and just eased it down,” Biffle said. “I thought, ‘Oh, man, I’m going to have to run a second lap,’ to make up for it, and I came by and they told me I was on the front row with an 86 (29.863 seconds).
“You wish you could do it over again, but it was a great lap, put us on the front row. It’s just funny how things happen… It gives me confidence we’ll have a good car for Sunday.”
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Atlanta Motor Speedway – Hampton, GA
Advocare 500 Qualifying – Aug. 31, 2012
1 14 Tony Stewart 29.787 186.121
2 16 Greg Biffle 29.863 185.648
3 18 Kyle Busch 29.888 185.493
4 17 Matt Kenseth 29.916 185.319
5 24 Jeff Gordon 29.918 185.307
6 55 Mark Martin 29.930 185.232
7 11 Denny Hamlin 29.932 185.220
8 48 Jimmie Johnson 29.945 185.139
9 20 Joey Logano 29.954 185.084
10 9 Marcos Ambrose 29.959 185.053
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12 99 Carl Edwards 29.979 184.929
13 43 Aric Almirola 29.988 184.874
14 34 David Ragan 30.010 184.738
15 22 Sam Hornish Jr. 30.031 184.609
16 51 Kurt Busch 30.038 184.566
17 39 Ryan Newman 30.052 184.480
18 27 Paul Menard 30.061 184.425
19 13 Casey Mears 30.117 184.082
20 1 Jamie McMurray 30.119 184.070
21 2 Brad Keselowski 30.121 184.058
22 36 Dave Blaney 30.172 183.747
23 10 Danica Patrick 30.184 183.673
24 29 Kevin Harvick 30.189 183.643
25 47 Bobby Labonte 30.211 183.509
26 31 Jeff Burton 30.227 183.412
27 78 Regan Smith 30.231 183.388
28 56 Martin Truex Jr. 30.234 183.370
29 38 David Gilliland 30.235 183.364
30 15 Clint Bowyer 30.240 183.333
31 30 David Stremme 30.289 183.037
32 21 Trevor Bayne 30.314 182.886
33 42 Juan Pablo Montoya 30.335 182.759
34 49 Jason Leffler 30.349 182.675
35 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 30.357 182.627
36 95 Scott Speed 30.370 182.549
37 87 Joe Nemechek 30.398 182.380
38 91 Reed Sorenson 30.430 182.189
39 23 Scott Riggs 30.438 182.141
40 83 Landon Cassill Owner Points
41 93 Travis Kvapil Owner Points
42 32 TJ Bell Owner Points
43 37 JJ Yeley 30.450 182.069
Did Not Qualify: Michael McDowell, Josh Wise, Stephen Leicht, Mike Bliss
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