Ryan Newman, U.S. Army No. 39 of Stewart-Haas Racing, captured the pole with success yesterday in the qualifying for this Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup series event at Charlotte Motor Speedway.  He didn’t get the pole without being nervous though.

Newman watched other drivers that qualified before him and he realized that to be his fastest he would need to hug the wall.  This is not something that you see Newman doing very often so it did trigger a bit of uneasiness inside him.  However, he decided to do what he needed to do and he captured the pole position.

Newman sat on the pole last year in this very same event and in his 19 appearance at this track for the Sprint Cup series, this is his ninth pole position.

Newman barely made the pole, though, with his lap of 187.546 mph.  Kurt Busch, preceding week’s All-Star winner, was right behind him with 187.292 mph and will start alongside Newman in Sunday’s race in second position.

Rounding out the top five we have Martin Truex Jr. who will start in third, Kasey Kahne fourth, followed by Jimmie Johnson in the fifth position.  David Reutimann qualified sixth, followed by Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Kyle Busch, and Clint Boyer finishing off the top 10 respectively.

Something to look for this Sunday…

The feud developing between Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch.  The feud is stemming from a wreck among the two at some point in the closing of the All-Star race this past Saturday.  Kyle Busch is not very pleased with Hamlin, as he believes that Hamlin took him out of the race by getting him into the wall.

Busch shared a few words with Hamlin and now claims that everything is settled between the two, but isn’t that a little hard to believe with the way Busch has acted in the past?  Everyone thought he had matured, but has he?  We’ll see this Sunday as the two start behind one another.

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