{"id":9386,"date":"2012-03-31T21:11:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T01:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9386"},"modified":"2012-03-31T21:11:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T01:11:02","slug":"kasey-kahne-wins-pole-at-martinsville-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/kasey-kahne-wins-pole-at-martinsville-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"KASEY KAHNE WINS POLE AT MARTINSVILLE SPEEDWAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/nascar\/2012 NSCS 5 car.jpg\" alt=\"Kasey Kahne NASCAR\" class='ngg-singlepic ngg-left'><strong>Team Chevy Drivers Occupy Three of the Top-5 Starting Positions For Sunday\u2019s Race<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MARTINSVILLE, Va. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/checkupracing.com\/tag\/kasey-kahne\/\" title=\"Kasey Kahne\">Kasey Kahne<\/a> No. 5 Hendrickcars.com Chevrolet, earned his second straight pole in NASCAR Sprint Cup series (NSCS) competition in the past four weeks, and fifth top-10 start in 2012, by capturing the top spot in today\u2019s qualifying session at the .586-mile Virginia short track.   It was Kasey\u2019s 24th career Coors Light Pole Award but was his first career NSCS pole at Martinsville Speedway in 17 races.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 46 cars took turns at the front row for Sunday\u2019s race and when the 43-car field was set, Chevy drivers took the front row and three of the top-5 starting spots for the 500-lap race.  Kevin Harvick, No. 29 Budweiser is Back Chevrolet, held the top spot until being bumped by Kahne by a mere 0.016 seconds.  It is the best qualifying effort (barring events where the race was set by points) since Phoenix International Raceway in November of 2006 for Harvick.  It was also his fourth top-10 start of 2012.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIn addition to Kahne and Harvick, the other Team Chevy driver starting in the top-5 will be Ryan Newman, No. 39 Outback Steakhouse Chevrolet \u2013 5th.  Jeff Gordon, No. 24 Drive to End Hunger Chevrolet was the only other Team Chevy driver to qualify inside the top-10 in a tightly stacked field.<\/p>\n<p>Other Chevrolet drivers of note were: Paul Menard, No. 27 Menards\/LIBMAN Chevrolet \u2013 11th: Dale Earnhardt Jr.  No. 88 AMP Energy\/Diet Mtn. Dew\/National Guard Chevrolet \u2013 14th; Tony Stewart, No. 14 Office Depot\/Mobil 1 Chevrolet -15th, Regan Smith No. 78 Furniture Row\/CSX Play it Safe Chevrolet \u2013 17th; Jeff Burton No. 31 BB&#038;T Chevrolet &#8211; 18th; Jaime McMurray No. 1 Belkin Chevrolet \u2013 20th;  and Jimmie Johnson, No. 48 myLowe\u2019s Chevrolet \u2013 22nd.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the top-5 were Denny Hamlin (Toyota) third, followed by Clint Bowyer (Toyota) in fourth.<\/p>\n<p>The Goody\u2019s 500 is scheduled to begin on Sunday afternoon at 1:00 p.m., ET with coverage on FOX, MRN Radio and Sirius NASCAR Radio Channel 9.<\/p>\n<p>[adrotate block=&#8221;3&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/NERacingForum.Com\" target=\"_blank\">NERacingForum.Com<\/a> for latest NASCAR Racing community News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Chevy Drivers Occupy Three of the Top-5 Starting Positions For Sunday\u2019s Race MARTINSVILLE, Va. \u2013 Kasey Kahne No. 5 Hendrickcars.com Chevrolet, earned his second straight pole in NASCAR Sprint Cup series (NSCS) competition in the past four weeks, and fifth top-10 start in 2012, by capturing the top spot in today\u2019s qualifying session at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,21,14972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","category-sprint-cup","category-touring-series-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}