Gordon captures the Sylvania 300 pole at New Hampshire

[media-credit name=”Credit: Rainier Ehrhardt/Getty Images” align=”alignright” width=”244″][/media-credit]Jeff Gordon captured the pole for Sunday’s Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway with a lap of 134.911 MPH (28.230 secs). This was Gordon’s second pole of the season.

“This car has been awesome in qualifying trim all day long. I just give a lot of credit to this Drive To End Hunger Chevrolet team. Don’t forget to text Hunger to 50555 to continue to help this great cause. What an awesome effort, great lap. It felt good. The car got off the corner really strong and I thought that it would be really close and as tight as these times are you just never know.” Gordon said.

Gordon shaved his mustache after a parts failure struck him down during the Chase-opening race at Chicagoland last Sunday. At New Hampshire, a clean-shaven Gordon hopes to get back in the championship hunt. But he has a huge up hill battle to accomplish that goal.

Kyle Busch qualified second with a lap of 134.753 MPH.

“That was a pretty good lap from where we were earlier in the day with the M&M’s Camry. Dave (Rogers, crew chief) and the guys did a really good job making some good changes to it to make it pick up speed. I felt like the car had decent balance, just needed more grip to make speed. They did a good job of that.” Busch said.

Tony Stewart qualified third.

“It seemed like it got better grip the second lap. Just took a little longer for the tires to come in.” Stewart said.

Brian Vickers qualified fourth and Carl Edwards qualified fifth.

“We had a pretty good lap with our Aflac Fusion, which is very good, and now we just go race. We’ll tune in the race car tomorrow in practice, but the track is very fast right now.” Edwards said.

Last week’s winner and the series points leader Brad Keselowski, qualified 15th.

“We’re just missing a little bit in qualifying trim and I think we’ll have it in the race.” Keselowski said.

Starting Lineup
Sylvania 300, New Hampshire
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Pos. No. Driver Make Speed Time
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1 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet 134.911 28.232
2 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 134.753 28.265
3 14 Tony Stewart Chevrolet 134.568 28.304
4 55 Brian Vickers Toyota 134.482 28.322
5 99 Carl Edwards Ford 134.354 28.349
6 5 Kasey Kahne Chevrolet 134.179 28.386
7 27 Paul Menard Chevrolet 134.098 28.403
8 39 Ryan Newman Chevrolet 133.934 28.438
9 56 Martin Truex Jr. Toyota 133.872 28.451
10 22 Dave Blaney Dodge 133.863 28.453
11 31 Jeff Burton Chevrolet 133.854 28.455
12 15 Clint Bowyer Toyota 133.825 28.461
13 16 Greg Biffle Ford 133.647 28.499
14 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet 133.637 28.501
15 2 Brad Keselowski Dodge 133.614 28.506
16 29 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 133.6 28.509
17 47 Bobby Labonte Toyota 133.567 28.516
18 20 Joey Logano Toyota 133.544 28.521
19 43 Aric Almirola Ford 133.301 28.573
20 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 133.128 28.61
21 9 Marcos Ambrose Ford 133.11 28.614
22 78 Regan Smith Chevrolet 133.021 28.633
23 51 Kurt Busch Chevrolet 132.966 28.645
24 42 Juan Montoya Chevrolet 132.85 28.67
25 17 Matt Kenseth Ford 132.799 28.681
26 34 David Ragan Ford 132.72 28.698
27 195 Scott Speed Ford 132.595 28.725
28 83 Landon Cassill Toyota 132.558 28.733
29 1 Jamie McMurray Chevrolet 132.356 28.777
30 13 Casey Mears Ford 132.195 28.812
31 98 Michael McDowell Ford 131.929 28.87
32 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 131.633 28.935
33 93 Travis Kvapil Toyota 131.442 28.977
34 10 David Reutimann Chevrolet 131.18 29.035
35 191 Reed Sorenson Chevrolet 130.963 29.083
36 87 Joe Nemechek Toyota 130.837 29.111
37 38 David Gilliland Ford 130.792 29.121
38 179 Kelly Bires Ford 130.64 29.155
39 33 Stephen Leicht* Chevrolet 130.367 29.216
40 37 J.J. Yeley Chevrolet 130.229 29.247
41 36 Tony Raines+ Chevrolet 128.359 29.673
42 32 Mike Olsen+ Ford 126.153 30.192
43 30 David Stremme Toyota 129.882 29.325

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