#55-Brian Vickers won the Coors Light pole for the GEICO 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway with speed of 196.129mph for his 1st pole of 2014, 1st at Talladega and 12th of his career.
#48-Johnson is on the outside pole, followed by #47-Allmendinger, #12-Blaney, #2-Keselowski, #95-McDowell, #33-Kvapil, #5-Kahne, #32-Labonte, #7-Annett, #31-Newman, and #78-Truex, Jr.
NASCAR used a different qualifying format, breaking the first session into two groups and shortening the session to 5 minutes. Several teams did not leave pit road on time during the first session to get a lap at full speed. Therefore, drivers having to take provisionals were: #14-Stewart, #11-Hamlin, #4-Harvick, #22-Logano, #18-Busch, #42-Larson, and #24-Gordon.
#29-Nemechek initially made the race, but failed inspection. That put #36-Sorenson into the race.
Missing the race were: #17-Stenhouse Jr., #51-Allgaier, #29-Nemechek.
See the Starting lineup, round by round qualifying results, notes and links on Jayski.com’s Talladega Starting Lineup / Qualifying Page.
