NSCS: Kurt Busch Wins Axalta We Paint Winners 400 Pole at Texas Motor Speedway

On Friday evening at Pocono Raceway, it’d be Kurt Busch topping the charts as he’d score the Coors Light Pole Award for the 34th Annual Axalta We Paint Winners 400 with a lap of 50.676 seconds. It marks the 19th pole of Busch’s career and his third pole of this season.

Carl Edwards will start second as he looks for his second win of the season, followed by Martin Truex Jr. with his eighth top-10 start of the season. Truex right now sits in position to make the Chase by his amount of points, but a win would sweeten the pot. Jeff Gordon and Kevin Harvick rounded out the top-five.

Austin Dillon will start sixth, followed by Brad Keselowski, Denny Hamlin, Jeff Gordon and Kyle Busch.

Starting Lineup
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Axalta “We Paint Winners” 400
Pocono Raceway
Provided by NASCAR Statistics

Starting Position	Car#	Driver	Sponsor Manu	Qualifying Speed (mph)	Qualifying Time (secs)
1	41	Kurt Busch (PC5)	Haas Automation Chevy	177.599	50.676
2	19	Carl Edwards	ARRIS Toyota	177.55	50.69
3	78	Martin Truex Jr.	Furniture Row/Visser Precision Chevy	177.522	50.698
4	24	Jeff Gordon (PC7)	Axalta/Penn State Chevy	177.211	50.787
5	4	Kevin Harvick (PC1)	Budweiser/Jimmy John’s Chevy	177.2	50.79
6	3	Austin Dillon	Dow Chevy	176.526	50.984
7	2	Brad Keselowski (PC3)	Miller Lite Ford	175.967	51.146
8	11	Denny Hamlin	FedEx Ground Toyota	177.676	50.654
9	48	Jimmie Johnson (PC2)	Lowe’s/Jimmie Johnson Foundation Chevy	177.385	50.737
10	18	Kyle Busch	M&M’s Crispy Toyota	177.193	50.792
11	22	Joey Logano	Shell Pennzoil Ford	176.8	50.905
12	5	Kasey Kahne	Farmers Chevy	176.07	51.116
13	31	Ryan Newman	Grainger Chevy	176.036	51.126
14	1	Jamie McMurray	Cessna Chevy	176.005	51.135
15	42	Kyle Larson	Target Chevy	175.943	51.153
16	27	Paul Menard	Schrock/Menards Chevy	175.895	51.167
17	17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Zest Ford	175.699	51.224
18	13	Casey Mears	GEICO Chevy	175.671	51.232
19	20	Matt Kenseth (PC6)	Dollar General Toyota	175.531	51.273
20	88	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	Nationwide Chevy	175.466	51.292
21	55	David Ragan	Aaron’s Dream Machine Toyota	175.418	51.306
22	10	Danica Patrick	GoDaddy Chevy	174.832	51.478
23	15	Clint Bowyer	Jack Link’s/Big Machine Records Toyota	174.236	51.654
24	9	Sam Hornish Jr.	Medallion Bank Ford	173.819	51.778
25	43	Aric Almirola	Nathan’s Famous Ford	174.791	51.49
26	47	A.J. Allmendinger	Clorox Chevy	174.771	51.496
27	16	Greg Biffle	Ortho Ford	174.683	51.522
28	14	Tony Stewart (PC4)	Mobil 1/Bass Pro Shops Chevy	174.652	51.531
29	33	Ty Dillon (i)	Yuengling Chevy	174.317	51.63
30	51	Justin Allgaier	SEM Chevy	174.031	51.715
31	46	Michael Annett	Sherwin Williams Chevy	173.873	51.762
32	40	Landon Cassill(i)	Interstate Moving Services Chevy	173.772	51.792
33	6	Trevor Bayne	AdvoCare Ford	173.695	51.815
34	7	Alex Bowman	Accell Construction Chevy	173.41	51.9
35	38	David Gilliland	MDS Ford	172.467	52.184
36	34	Brett Moffitt #	Dockside Logistics Ford	172.437	52.193
37-OP	23	J.J. Yeley(i)	Dr Pepper/Heinz Toyota	171.989	52.329
38-OP	98	Josh Wise	Ford	171.887	52.360
39-OP	35	Cole Whitt	Ford	171.752	52.401
40-OP	26	Jeb Burton #	Maxim Fantasy Sports Toyota	170.623	52.748
41-OP	83	Matt Dibenedetto #	Burger King Toyota	169.440	53.116
42-OP	32	Travis Kvapil	Visone RV Parts Ford	169.122	53.216
43-OP	62	Brendan Gaughan(i)	Chevy	0.000	0.000
RED = Needed to qualify by speed, not eligible for a regular provisional, no owners points or too deeply ranked in owners points PC1 = is the first past champ eligible, PC2 is the 2nd…and so on if more # Sunoco Rookie of the Year candidate (i) = driver not running for Sprint Cup Series Championship Drivers Points