#99-Carl Edwards won the Coors Pole for the Air Guard 400 Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond International Raceway with a speed of 127.762mph for his 2nd pole of 2010 and 6th of his career.
#42-Montoya will start 2nd followed by #43-Allmendinger, #33-Bowyer, #00-Reutimann, #20-Logano, #98-Menard, #12-Keselowski, #88-Earnhardt Jr. and #9-Kahne. Points leader #29-Harvick starts 20th. #83-Mattias Ekstrom makes his oval race debut, start 42nd. #09-Bobby Labonte uses a past champions provisional to make the race and starts 43rd. His brother #10-Terry Labonte was faster, but was 8th fastest and failed to qualify for the race. If Bobby didn’t have to use the provisional, Terry could had.
The go-or-go homers who made the race (8): #26-Green [16th], #13-Mears, #36-Blaney, #87-Nemechek, #32-Leffler, #55-Bliss, #38-Kvapil and #09-BLabonte (using a past champions provisional).
The go-or-go homers who failed to qualify for the race (5): #10-TLabonte, #46-McDowell, #64-Bodine, #66-Riggs and #92-Brian Keselowski.
See the starting lineup, qualifying speeds and notes on my Richmond Starting Lineup/Qualifying Results page.(9-10-2010)
