The Coke 600 is one of the premium races on the years' calendar both representing the season's longest race and also one on home territory as the huge majority of teams are headquartered in close proximity to the team headquarters and homes of most of the racing teams.
At this milestone point of the 2013 season, has anyone noticed the extent to which five time champ, Jimmie Johnson is leading the points standings?
Were the chase format not initiated, this would be about the earliest in the season talk would be speaking of an insurmountable lead. Johnson and Chad Knaus, his crew chief, seem to be up to any challenge not the least of which is adjusting to the new "Gen 6" car in much the same manner their mastery of the previous "Cat of Tomorrow" helped them become so dominant. Despite this, the buzz so far this year is making much of the success of the Joe Gibbs teams as Matt Kenseth taking on the #20 ride has proven to yield exactly what the team had hoped for, a consistent winner. Showing the Gibbs touch this year is tonight's poll sitter, Denny Hamlin, who, were it not for his wreck at the hands of Joey Logano at Fontana, would be right in the championship mix right now, sits on tonight's poll with a hot new track record.
Toyota tops tonight's qualifying results with the pole winner and four out of the top five positions after which Chevrolet takes control having Kurt Busch in the Furniture Row car on the outside poll and placing nine cars in the top twenty once again making qualify an issue for Ford with only one top ten qualifier, Greg Biffle in 7th then Carl Edwards in 13th. Ford then has the final three top 20 spots with the two Petty rides, Almirola and and Ambrose. Defending champ, Brad Keselowski starts in 20th.
Whose cars and drivers will hold up strongest in the marathon race? One Hendricks engine blew up in practice forcing Danica Patrick to the back. Picking a favorite is no easy task given this is the Generation 6's first appearance in the Coke 600.
| POS | CAR# | DRIVER | SPONSOR | MFG | SPEED | |||||
| 1 | 11 | Denny Hamlin | FedEx Office | Toyota | 195.624 | |||||
| 2 | 78 | Kurt Busch | Furniture Row Racing / Sealy | Chevrolet | 195.221 | |||||
| 3 | 20 | Matt Kenseth | Home Depot / Husky | Toyota | 195.094 | |||||
| 4 | 55 | Mark Martin | Aaron's Dream Machine | Toyota | 194.595 | |||||
| 5 | 15 | Clint Bowyer | 5-hour Energy | Toyota | 194.503 | |||||
| 6 | 5 | Kasey Kahne | Time Warner Cable | Chevrolet | 194.349 | |||||
| 7 | 16 | Greg Biffle | Fastenal | Ford | 194.238 | |||||
| 8 | 18 | Kyle Busch | M&M's Red-White-Blue M-Prove America | Toyota | 193.952 | |||||
| 9 | 1 | Jamie McMurray | Bad Boy Buggies | Chevrolet | 193.694 | |||||
| 10 | 39 | Ryan Newman | Quicken Loans | Chevrolet | 193.639 | |||||
| 11 | 88 | Dale Earnhardt Jr. | National Guard | Chevrolet | 193.444 | |||||
| 12 | 48 | Jimmie Johnson | Lowe's Patriotic | Chevrolet | 193.292 | |||||
| 13 | 99 | Carl Edwards | Fastenal | Ford | 193.271 | |||||
| 14 | 24 | Jeff Gordon | Drive to End Hunger | Chevrolet | 192.961 | |||||
| 15 | 29 | Kevin Harvick | Budweiser Folds of Honor | Chevrolet | 192.52 | |||||
| 16 | 42 | Juan Pablo Montoya | Target | Chevrolet | 192.287 | |||||
| 17 | 56 | Martin Truex Jr. | NAPA Auto Parts | Toyota | 192.191 | |||||
| 18 | 43 | Aric Almirola | US Air Force | Ford | 192.13 | |||||
| 19 | 9 | Marcos Ambrose | DeWalt | Ford | 192.123 | |||||
| 20 | 2 | Brad Keselowski | Miller Lite | Ford | 191.884 | |||||
| 21 | 13 | Casey Mears | GEICO | Ford | 191.884 | |||||
| 22 | 27 | Paul Menard | Menards / Serta | Chevrolet | 191.727 | |||||
| 23 | 36 | JJ Yeley | World Trade Barter Solutions | Chevrolet | 190.988 | |||||
| 24 | 10 | Danica Patrick # | GoDaddy.com | Chevrolet | 190.826 | |||||
| 25 | 14 | Tony Stewart | Bass Pro Shops / Mobil 1 | Chevrolet | 190.792 | |||||
| 26 | 38 | David Gilliland | Long John Silver's | Ford | 190.665 | |||||
| 27 | 31 | Jeff Burton | Cheerios | Chevrolet | 190.49 | |||||
| 28 | 93 | Travis Kvapil | Burger King / Dr Pepper | Toyota | 190.416 | |||||
| 29 | 21 | Trevor Bayne | Motorcraft / Quick Lane Tire & Auto Center | Ford | 190.409 | |||||
| 30 | 17 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr. # | Fastenal | Ford | 190.241 | |||||
| 31 | 22 | Joey Logano | Pennzoil Shell | Ford | 190.047 | |||||
| 32 | 98 | Michael McDowell | Hyde Park Storage Suites | Ford | 189.967 | |||||
| 33 | 7 | Dave Blaney | SANY | Chevrolet | 189.793 | |||||
| 34 | 47 | Bobby Labonte | Bush's Grillin' Beans | Toyota | 189.401 | |||||
| 35 | 34 | David Ragan | Dockside Logistics | Ford | 189.049 | |||||
| 36 | 51 | Regan Smith(i) | Hendrickcars.com | Chevrolet | 188.725 | |||||
| 37-OP | 83 | David Reutimann | Burger King / Dr Pepper | Toyota | 188.383 | |||||
| 38-OP | 30 | David Stremme | Lean 1 / Swan Energy | Toyota | 188.265 | |||||
| 39-OP | 32 | Timmy Hill # | OXY Water | Ford | 188.114 | |||||
| 40-OP | 87 | Joe Nemechek(i) | NEMCO Motorsports | Toyota | 188.081 | |||||
| 41-OP | 33 | Landon Cassill(i) | ShopBicycleCards.com / Little Joe's Autos | Chevrolet | 188.075 | |||||
| 42-OP | 35 | Josh Wise(i) | MDS Transport | Ford | 186.406 | |||||
| 43-OP | 95 | Scott Speed | Leavine Family Racing | Ford | 188.659 | |||||
| DID NOT QUALIFY | ||||||||||
| 19 | Mike Bliss(i) | Gentry Plastics / Plinker Tactical | Toyota | 188.219 |
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