The second race in the Chase for the Championship is set to run Sunday afternoon. After two practices tomorrow, it will all be over but the racing. Big surprise in qualifying today as Jimmie Johnson grabbed the pole in his #48 Lowe's Impala with a lap of 22.87 seconds, or 147 mph. This will be Johnson's second pole of the season and his 21st top 10 start of 2009. Jimmie will be flanked by Bogota, Columbia's Juan Pablo Montoya and his #42 Target Impala. The rest of the top five will include Ryan Newman's #39 U.S. ARMY Chevy, Greg Biffle's 3M Ford and David Reutimann's Aaron's Toyota. Elliott Sadler lost an engine due to a broken crankshaft, a problem that ended teammate Kasey Kahne's race one week ago. So Salder's #19 Geek Squad Dodge will start from the rear of the field due to the engine change. The lone car that did not qualify was Scott Wimmer's #4 Morgan-McClure Motorsports Chevy team.
Earlier in the day, practice was held and, big shock here, the #48 team topped the leader board with a time of 22.78 seconds, or 158 mph. The rest of the top ten included Newman, Montoya, Biffle, Kurt Busch's #2 Miller Lite Dodge, AJ Allmendinger's #44 Super 8 Dodge, Reutimann, Kevin Harvick's #29 Shell/Pennzoil Chevrolet, Mark Martin's #5 Kellogg's Chevy and David Gilliland's #71 unsponsored TRG Chevy.
Like I said, there will be one Happy Hour practice tomorrow, so there is one more chance for the rest of the field to get to where the 48 is, setupwise, and keep him from getting the repeat in Deleware.
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