#24-Jeff Gordon won the Bud Pole for the Food City 500, posting a lap of 15.295 second at 125.453 mph – scoring the first Bud Pole in the Car of Tomorrow. .. It is Gordon’s 58th Bud Pole 478 career Nextel Cup races. .. This is his second Bud Pole and third top-10 start in 2007 all also top-fives. .. This is Gordon’s fifth Bud Pole at Bristol breaking a tie with Fred Lorenzen for the fifth most Bud Poles here. .. Gordon moved into a tie with Bobby Allison for fifth on the all-time Bud Pole winners list. .. Ward Burton (14th) was the quickest of the drivers required to qualify on time. .. Jeremy Mayfield (23rd) and AJ. Allemendinger (35th) qualified for their first race this season. It will be Allmendinger’s career-first Nextel Cup start.(NASCAR Stats)(3-23-2007)
