Busch brothers tops in qualifying at Las Vegas
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02/27/2009 -
Las Vegas, NV (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Kyle Busch won the pole at his hometrack, Las
Vegas Motor Speedway, for the second year in a row, while his elder brother,
Kurt Busch, posted the second best lap in Friday's qualifying for the Shelby
427.
Kyle Busch set a new track qualifying record with a lap of 29.033 seconds
(185.995 m.p.h.). However, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver will have to start the
Sprint Cup Series race from the rear of the field after an engine change prior
to qualifying.
"We're just going to buy our time and race the 427 miles," Busch said. "All
the guys on this team did an awesome job changing the engine today. We look
forward to hopefully being able to do it on Sunday."
The pole victory was Busch's fifth in his Sprint Cup career.
Kurt Busch will now lead the 43-car field to the green flag after recording a
lap of 29.078 seconds.
The last time brothers qualified on the front row for a Cup race occurred in
April 2000 when Rusty Wallace won the pole and Kenny Wallace secured the
outside pole at Martinsville Speedway.
Jimmie Johnson qualified third at Las Vegas, followed by David Reutimann and
Marcos Ambrose.
Ryan Newman, Kasey Kahne, Mark Martin, Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart
completed the top-10.
Other drivers of note and their starting positions include: Carl Edwards
(16th), Greg Biffle (24th), Jeff Gordon (28th), Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (31st) and
Matt Kenseth (40th).
Jeremy Mayfield and Scott Riggs were among the eight drivers who failed to
qualify. Both drivers raced their way into the Daytona 500 earlier this month.
Other drivers missing the field were: Travis Kvapil, Dave Blaney, Mike Garvey,
Sterling Marlin, Tony Raines and Dexter Bean.
After winning the Daytona 500 and the Auto Club 500 at California, Kenseth
will attempt to become the first driver in NASCAR history to win the first
three Cup races of the season. Kenseth currently holds an 81-point lead over
Gordon in the series standings. He won back-to-back races at Las Vegas from
2003-04.
"I didn't think we would have won the first two races, so I haven't really
thought about the third," Kenseth said. "Hopefully we can get our car to
handle good this weekend and have a shot. The pit crew has been operating at
an extremely high level, and so have all the guys getting the cars to handle
and run - the engine guys and everything - so I feel like we have the tools to
be competitive and we'll just try to be as competitive as we can and hopefully
be somewhere in position at the end."
Roush Fenway Racing has been dominant at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, with the
team's six victories best compared to Hendrick Motorsports' four wins since
the series started racing there in 1998.
Gordon, who is coming off a second-place finish at California, is eager to
snap his winless streak, which now stretches to 43 races. He won at Las Vegas
in 2001, the same year he captured his fourth Cup championship.
Edwards won last year's event at Las Vegas.
The green flag for Sunday's race is scheduled to drop around 4:30 p.m. (et).
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