.. Martin Truex Jr., won the Bud Pole for the Dickies 500 with a lap of 27.964 seconds, 193.105 mph .. This is his first Bud Pole in 79 career Nextel Cup races .. This is his 14th top-10 start in 2007. He had previously started second three times: Loudon, Martinsville and Chicago .. Truex became the 17th different Bud Pole winner this season one shy of the modern era record set in 1997 and 2001 .. This is Truex’s first start better than ninth and just his second top-10 start in five races at Texas Motor Speedway .. Jeff Gordon posted the second-fastest qualifying time, posting his 12th front-row start this season .. Juan Pablo Montoya (third) posted his eighth top-10 start of 2007 and was the fastest qualifying rookie .. AJ Allmendinger (fifth) was the fastest of the drivers required to make the field on time. Allmendinger posted the best starting position of his 17-race Nextel Cup career .. Six of the 12 Chase drivers qualified in the top-10: Truex, Gordon, Kevin Harvick (fourth), Kurt Busch (sixth), Denny Hamlin (seventh) and Jimmie Johnson (eighth). Clint Bowyer (29th) was the highest qualifying Chase driver.(NASCAR Statistics)(11-2-2007)
