kasey kahne (pictured in 2009) had eleventh pole position of career.
three practice sessions held before sunday race; 1 on friday , 2 on saturday. first session lasted 90 minutes, second, , third sessions ran 50 minutes. in first practice session, kahne fastest time of 30.417 seconds; johnson second , elliott sadler third. brian vickers took fourth position, , scott riggs placed fifth. kurt busch, gordon, kyle busch, hamlin , martin truex jr. rounded out session s top ten drivers. carl long crashed outside wall , switched back-up car.
although forty-seven cars entered in qualifier; according nascar s qualifying procedure forty-three race. kahne clinched fifth pole position of season, , eleventh of career, time of 30.273. joined on grid s front row riggs, evernham motorsports teammate. johnson qualified third, hendrick motorsports teammate vickers fourth, , j. j. yeley fifth. clint bowyer, kurt busch, kenseth, sadler , burton rounded out top ten qualifiers. gordon, chase nextel cup driver, qualified eleventh, , earnhardt recorded twelfth fastest lap. 4 drivers failed qualify scott wimmer, kevin lepage, chad blount , long (who hit turn 2 outside wall after spun on first qualifying lap). after qualifier, kahne said, feel got out of it. have used more race track off turn four, turning didn t have to.
on saturday morning greg biffle fastest in second practice session lap of 30.994 seconds, ahead of casey mears , bowyer. johnson fourth-fastest; kurt busch fifth , kahne sixth. carl edwards, vickers, harvick , kyle busch followed in top ten. of other drivers in chase, hamlin twelfth-fastest , burton set thirteenth-fastest time. later day, johnson paced final practice session time of 31.240; vickers second , reed sorenson third. kahne fourth-fastest, ahead of burton , kurt busch. bowyer seventh-fastest, biffle eighth, sadler ninth , harvick tenth. other chase drivers included martin in twelfth, kyle busch seventeenth , kenseth twenty-sixth.
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