Kurt Busch wins second pole of the season at Texas
Friday was a good day to be a Hendrick-powered Chevy.
Kurt Busch won the pole for Saturday’s Sprint Cup Series race at Texas as three Hendrick Motorsports cars, three Stewart-Haas Racing cars and both Chip Ganassi Racing cars made the final round of 12 during qualifying.
It’s Busch’s second pole of the year. He won the pole earlier in the year at Auto Club Speedway.
His teammate Kevin Harvick starts second while Brad Keselowski broke up the Hendrick brigade in third. Hendrick-powered cars driven by Kasey Kahne and Jimmie Johnson rounded out the top five.
Joey Logano, Ryan Newman, Paul Menard, Kyle Larson and Jamie McMurray round out the top 10. Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart rounded out the top 12.
We’re going to go out on a sturdy limb and say one of the drivers in the top 10 will win the race. You have to go back to Denny Hamlin’s win in the fall race in 2010 to find a driver who has won starting outside the top 10 at Texas.
The one SHR car to miss the final round was Danica Patrick. She starts 24th. Dale Earnhardt Jr., the only Hendrick Motorsports car not in the final round, starts 25th. Jeb Burton and Brendan Gaughan missed the race.
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