.. Carl Edwards won the Bud Pole for the Checker Auto Parts 500 presented by Pennzoil with a lap of 27.114 seconds, 132.773 mph .. This is his third Bud Pole in 120 career Nextel Cup races .. This is his first Bud Pole and 10th top-10 start in 2007 .. This is Edwards’s first Bud Pole at Phoenix International Raceway .. Martin Truex Jr. posted the second-fastest qualifying time, his third front-row start in the past four races .. Jeff Gordon (third) posted his 22nd top-10 start of 2007 and his 11th top-10 start in 18 races at Phoenix .. Sam Hornish Jr. (26th) qualified for his career-first Nextel Cup race in his seventh attempt to make a Nextel Cup race .. Patrick Carpentier (24th) and Jacques Villeneuve (27th) both qualified for their second Nextel Cup race .. Brian Vickers (22nd) was the fastest of the drivers required to make the field on time .. Juan Pablo Montoya (14th) was the fastest qualifying rookie.(NASCAR Statistics)(11-9-2007)
