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Jimmie Johnson is one of the best at Martinsville. On Sunday the six time winner at the track will start from the pole as the seventh race in the 2012 NASCAR Chase gets underway. This is Johnson’s third pole of the season.<\/p>\n
Denny Hamlin, third in the points, is a four time winner at ‘the paperclip’ and will start fifth.\u00a0 Series points leader Brad Keselowski did not have a good qualifying lap and will start 32nd.<\/p>\n
Johnson said he was not going to count out Keselowski though, and that “It would be foolish for me to sit here and think they’re not going to race their way through. …” and that he would probably have a tough time on pit road with their pit stall pick.<\/p>\n
Johnson ran his fast lap of 97.598, edging out Brian Vickers who is making his final start of the 2012 season.<\/p>\n
Other notables in field include Jeff Gordon and Clint Bowyer. Gordon is a seven time winner and will be looking to add his eighth grandfather clock. Bowyer who remains in striking distance of the championship will start eighth.<\/p>\n
Dale Earnhardt Jr. makes his return to the Cup series after missing races at Charlotte and Kansas. AJ Allmendinger stays in the No. 51 car of Phoenix Racing while last weekends winner Matt Kenseth tries for his third win in the Chase.<\/p>\n
Mike Bliss and JJ Yeley failed to make the race.<\/p>\n
1. #48 Jimmie Johnson<\/strong> Jimmie Johnson is one of the best at Martinsville. On Sunday the six time winner at the track will start from the pole as the seventh race in the 2012 NASCAR Chase gets underway. This is Johnson’s third pole of the season. Denny Hamlin, third in the points, is a four time winner at ‘the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[],"coauthors":[674],"class_list":{"0":"post-4610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4610"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. #55 Brian Vickers
\n3. #18 Kyle Busch
\n4. #31 Jeff Burton
\n5. #11 Denny Hamlin<\/strong>
\n 6. #17 Matt Kenseth<\/strong>
\n 7. #14 Tony Stewart<\/strong>
\n 8. #15 Clint Bowyer<\/strong>
\n9. #27 Paul Menard
\n10. #43 Aric Almirola
\n11 #24 Jeff Gordon<\/strong>
\n 12. #56 Martin Truex Jr.<\/strong>
\n 13. #29 Kevin Harvick<\/strong>
\n14. #20 Joey Logano
\n15. #5 Kasey Kahne<\/strong>
\n16 #34 David Ragan
\n17. #39 Ryan Newman
\n18. #47 Bobby Labonte
\n19. #78 Kurt Busch
\n20. #88 Dale Earnhardt Jr.<\/strong>
\n21. #98 Michael McDowell
\n22. #13 Casey Mears
\n23. #99 Carl Edwards
\n24. #1 Jamie McMurray
\n25. #42 Juan Pablo Montoya
\n26. #51 AJ Allmendinger
\n27. #22 Sam Hornish Jr.
\n28. #32 Ken Schrader
\n29. #10 David Reutimann
\n30. #16 Greg Biffle<\/strong>
\n31 #26 Josh Wise
\n32. #2 Brad Keselowski
\n33 #9 Marcos Ambrose
\n34. #83 Landon Cassill
\n35. #38 David Gilliland
\n36. #23 Scott Riggs
\n37. #36 Dave Blaney
\n38. #87 joe Nemechek
\n39. #91 Reed Sorenson
\n40. #30 David Stremme
\n41. #93 Travis Kvapil
\n42. #33 Stephen Leicht
\n43. #95 Scott Speed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"