NASCAR Cup Series

DOVER, Del. – Dale Earnhardt Jr. set a track record on Friday in Dover to capture the pole for Sunday’s AAA 400. Earnhardt Jr.’s lap...

MATT KENSETH, No. 20 Home Depot "Let's Do This" Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Starting Position: 2nd - How was your qualifying lap?"Man, this Home Depot 'Let's Do This' Camry has been really fast all day. Has had a lot of speed, been a lot of fun to drive. You feel like, especially with me driving the car, we don't get that many chances at the pole so I hate that we missed it by that little bit."

Dale Earnhardt, Jr. powered his No. 88 National Guard Chevrolet SS into the pole position with a track-record lap of 161.849 mph in 22.243 seconds for Sunday’s AAA 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Dover International Speedway. It was his 13th career pole win, his second of the 2013 Cup season, and first on the mile-long, high-banked concrete race track for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup contender.

CASEY MEARS – No. 13 Geico Ford Fusion – “It was definitely too loose for qualifying. It always loosens up here, so we tightened it up some but we didn’t tighten it up enough and it was still just too loose. I felt like we had a pretty good race car, but I don’t think that’s gonna be a very good lap today.”

“The car has been excellent all day and I just overdrove (Turn) 1 a little bit and didn’t really trust the car as much as I should have off of (Turn) 4. The car is a lot faster than that. But hopefully it will be a good qualifying run.”

AJ Allmendinger is back at Dover International Speedway in the No. 47 House-Autry Toyota for JTG Daugherty Racing, where he will be full-time in...

Jimmie Johnson is in a very familiar spot. He once again is in contention for another championship and if he can pull off the feat it will be his sixth title in the past 8 years, an incredible feat under any points system.

Greg Biffle, driver of the No. 16 3M Ford Fusion, is fifth in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standings coming into this weekend’s AAA 400 at Dover International Speedway. Biffle came into the infield media center after today’s practice session to talk about his Chase prospects.

KYLE BUSCH, No. 18 Interstate Batteries Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - What is your outlook for Dover? "We ran pretty good here in the spring, so feel like we've got a good shot at being able to run well again here this time around. Just have to be able to do the same things we did then, which starts here in about half hour with just getting a good practice session in, being able to get good notes built up and get a good handling race car."

MATT KENSETH, No. 20 Home Depot "Let Do This" Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - What is your outlook for Dover this weekend? "Glad to get here this weekend. I've always loved this race track and with the momentum that we've been having and the finishes and performance and all of that stuff, I just honestly couldn't wai t to get back to the track. So glad we're here. Ready to get started with our day and get back to work."