* Mark Martin won the Coors Light Pole Award for the Price Chopper 400 presented by Kraft Foods with a lap of 30.724 seconds, 175.758 mph.
* This is his 48th pole in 751 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races.
* This is his seventh pole of 2009, the highest single-season total of his career.
* This is his first pole in nine races at Kansas Speedway.
* Dale Earnhardt Jr. (second) posted his second top-10 start of 2009 and his fifth in nine races at Kansas Speedway.
* Brad Keselowski (third) posted his first top-10 start at Kansas Speedway. It is his third in ten races this season.
* Scott Speed (10th) was the fastest qualifying rookie.(NASCAR Statistics)(10-2-2009)
