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Coca-Cola 600 Starting Grid

May 28th, 2010 | Comments Off

Charlotte – The Rocket Man was back in town Thursday as Ryan Newman picked up his 9th pole at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Newman beat out Kurt Busch by .0254 to claim his 46th career pole, tying him with Junior Johnson in 10th place on the all time list. Rounding out the top 5 were Martin Truex Jr., Kasey Kahne and Jimmy Johnson. The full starting grid:

Pos	No	Driver	Make	Time	Speed
1.	39	Ryan Newman	Chevrolet	28.793	187.546
2.	2	Kurt Busch	Dodge	28.832	187.292
3.	56	Martin Truex Jr.	Toyota	28.848	187.188
4.	9	Kasey Kahne	Ford	28.851	187.169
5.	48	Jimmie Johnson	Chevrolet	28.881	186.974
6.	00	David Reutimann	Toyota	28.904	186.825
7.	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	28.913	186.767
8.	20	Joey Logano	Toyota	28.919	186.728
9.	18	Kyle Busch	Toyota	28.950	186.529
10.	33	Clint Bowyer	Chevrolet	29.024	186.053
11.	5	Mark Martin	Chevrolet	29.029	186.021
12.	31	Jeff Burton	Chevrolet	29.063	185.803
13.	83	Casey Mears	Toyota	29.105	185.535
14.	77	Sam Hornish Jr.	Dodge	29.117	185.459
15.	24	Jeff Gordon	Chevrolet	29.118	185.452
16.	17	Matt Kenseth	Ford	29.181	185.052
17.	66	Dave Blaney	Toyota	29.200	184.932
18.	43	A.J. Allmendinger	Ford	29.204	184.906
19.	87	Joe Nemechek	Toyota	29.212	184.855
20.	42	Juan Montoya	Chevrolet	29.247	184.634
21.	82	Scott Speed	Toyota	29.251	184.609
22.	36	Johnny Sauter	Chevrolet	29.274	184.464
23.	29	Kevin Harvick	Chevrolet	29.283	184.407
24.	88	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	Chevrolet	29.293	184.344
25.	21	Bill Elliott	Ford	29.293	184.344
26.	14	Tony Stewart	Chevrolet	29.296	184.326
27.	1	Jamie McMurray	Chevrolet	29.319	184.181
28.	37	David Gilliland	Ford	29.333	184.093
29.	164	Todd Bodine	Toyota	29.340	184.049
30.	55	Michael McDowell	Toyota	29.342	184.036
31.	99	Carl Edwards	Ford	29.356	183.949
32.	78	Regan Smith	Chevrolet	29.371	183.855
33.	98	Paul Menard	Ford	29.414	183.586
34.	47	Marcos Ambrose	Toyota	29.421	183.542
35.	6	David Ragan	Ford	29.459	183.306
36.	7	Robby Gordon	Toyota	29.463	183.281
37.	12	Brad Keselowski	Dodge	29.573	182.599
38.	71	Bobby Labonte	Chevrolet	29.579	182.562
39.	19	Elliott Sadler+	Ford	29.674
40.	16	Greg Biffle+	Ford	29.721
41.	38	Travis Kvapil+	Ford	29.902
42.	34	Kevin Conway*+	Ford	30.027
43.	46	J.J. Yeley+	Dodge	29.469

DNQ	132	Reed Sorenson	Toyota	29.488
DNQ	13	Max Papis	Toyota	29.524
DNQ	26	David Stremme	Ford	29.561
DNQ	09	Mike Bliss	Chevrolet	29.594

* Series rookie
+ Set by owner points