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[/media-credit]Stenhouse Jr. won the Coors Light Pole Award for the 30th annual VFW Sport Clips Help a Hero 200 at Darlington Raceway on Friday afternoon.
It’s his first pole in only three starts at Darlington Raceway and his fifth pole in 82 NASCAR Nationwide Series starts.
Denny Hamlin will start the race in second position.  This is Hamlin’s fourth top-10 start in 2012 and his fourth top-10 start in seven races at this track.
Austin Dillon will begin the race in third place and was the fastest qualifying rookie. It marks his ninth top-10 start in nine races this season.
Kurt Busch and Joey Logano round out the top five starting positions, starting in fourth and fifth place respectively.
| Starting Lineup | |||||
| VFW Sport Clips Help a Hero 200, Darlington | |||||
| http://www.speedwaymedia.com/n2s/qual.php?race=9 | |||||
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| Pos. | No. | Driver | Make | Speed | Time |
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| 1 | 6 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr. | Ford | 173.546 | 28.336 |
| 2 | 18 | Denny Hamlin | Toyota | 172.784 | 28.461 |
| 3 | 3 | Austin Dillon* | Chevrolet | 172.65 | 28.483 |
| 4 | 54 | Kurt Busch | Toyota | 172.378 | 28.528 |
| 5 | 20 | Joey Logano | Toyota | 172.354 | 28.532 |
| 6 | 2 | Elliott Sadler | Chevrolet | 171.92 | 28.604 |
| 7 | 11 | Brian Scott | Toyota | 171.698 | 28.641 |
| 8 | 12 | Sam Hornish Jr. | Dodge | 171.357 | 28.698 |
| 9 | 38 | Kasey Kahne | Chevrolet | 170.821 | 28.788 |
| 10 | 31 | Justin Allgaier | Chevrolet | 170.253 | 28.884 |
| 11 | 33 | Brendan Gaughan | Chevrolet | 170.2 | 28.893 |
| 12 | 44 | Mike Bliss | Toyota | 169.807 | 28.96 |
| 13 | 22 | Brad Keselowski | Dodge | 169.725 | 28.974 |
| 14 | 30 | James Buescher | Chevrolet | 168.758 | 29.14 |
| 15 | 7 | Danica Patrick | Chevrolet | 168.497 | 29.185 |
| 16 | 87 | Joe Nemechek | Toyota | 168.169 | 29.242 |
| 17 | 136 | Ryan Blaney | Chevrolet | 167.859 | 29.296 |
| 18 | 50 | T.J. Bell | Chevrolet | 167.157 | 29.419 |
| 19 | 39 | Josh Richards | Ford | 167.152 | 29.42 |
| 20 | 40 | Erik Darnell | Chevrolet | 167.066 | 29.435 |
| 21 | 1 | Mike Wallace | Chevrolet | 166.953 | 29.455 |
| 22 | 43 | Michael Annett | Ford | 166.653 | 29.508 |
| 23 | 51 | Jeremy Clements | Chevrolet | 166.366 | 29.559 |
| 24 | 42 | Josh Wise | Chevrolet | 166.337 | 29.564 |
| 25 | 199 | Travis Pastrana | Toyota | 166.186 | 29.591 |
| 26 | 14 | Jeff Green | Toyota | 165.984 | 29.627 |
| 27 | 124 | Casey Roderick* | Chevrolet | 165.956 | 29.632 |
| 28 | 23 | Jamie Dick | Chevrolet | 165.95 | 29.633 |
| 29 | 46 | Chase Miller | Chevrolet | 165.464 | 29.72 |
| 30 | 19 | Tayler Malsam | Toyota | 165.448 | 29.723 |
| 31 | 41 | Timmy Hill | Ford | 165.32 | 29.746 |
| 32 | 81 | Jason Bowles* | Toyota | 165.298 | 29.75 |
| 33 | 47 | Scott Speed | Chevrolet | 165.264 | 29.756 |
| 34 | 10 | Tony Raines | Toyota | 164.965 | 29.81 |
| 35 | 15 | Blake Koch | Chevrolet | 164.413 | 29.91 |
| 36 | 4 | Danny Efland | Chevrolet | 164.391 | 29.914 |
| 37 | 89 | Morgan Shepherd | Chevrolet | 161.36 | 30.476 |
| 38 | 175 | Scott Riggs | Chevrolet | 160.339 | 30.67 |
| 39 | 174 | Mike Harmon | Chevrolet | 159.481 | 30.835 |
| 40 | 88 | Cole Whitt* | Chevrolet | 158.73 | 30.981 |
| 41 | 52 | Kevin Lepage | Chevrolet | 158.255 | 31.074 |
| 42 | 108 | Matt Frahm | Ford | 156.323 | 31.458 |
| 43 | 70 | Derrike Cope | Dodge | 152.158 | 32.319 |
