.. Jamie McMurray won the Bud Pole for the Toyota/Save Mart 350 with a lap of 77.521 seconds, 92.414 mph. .. This is his third career Bud Pole in 166 Nextel Cup races. .. It is his first Bud Pole on a road course and his second top-10 start in five races at Infineon both on the front row. He started second and finished 18th in this race last year. .. McMurray has finished in the top-10 in two of his eight road-course races: second here in 2006 and third at Watkins Glen, also last season. .. Jeff Gordon holds the track qualifying record with a lap of 75.950 seconds, 94.325 mph – set on June 24, 2005. .. Robby Gordon qualified second with a lap of 77.533 seconds, 92.399 mph and will join McMurray on the front row. It is his fifth top-10 start in 10 Infineon races. .. Dale Earnhardt Jr. (third) tied his career-best road-course starting position set in 2004 at Watkins Glen. It is his second top-10 start at Infineon. .. Juan Pablo Montoya (32nd) was the highest qualifying rookie. .. Boris Said (fourth) was the fastest of the drivers required to make the field on time. .. Three foreign-born drivers made the field for the Toyota/Save Mart 350, tying the Nextel Cup standard for foreign-born participants: Ron Fellows (11th – Canada), Marc Goossens (21st – Belgium) and Montoya (Columbia). Seven previous races have had three, most recently this race in 2003. .. Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson did not take qualifying laps due to issues with technical inspection. Gordon had never started worse than 15th in his previous 14 races at Infineon. Johnson had just one top-10 start in his five Infineon races and recorded his best finish (fifth) from his second-worst start (34th) in 2004.(NASCAR Statistics)(6-22-2007)
