NASCAR Cup Series

Aric Almirola captured the pole for Sundays Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway with a lap of 192.940 MPH, 27.988 seconds, giving Richard Petty Motorsports a front-row sweep.

On the heels of winning last week’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star race, Jimmie Johnson powered his No. 48 Lowe’s Patriotic Chevrolet to a third place qualifying time for Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

5th, CLINT BOWYER 35th, DAVID STREMME 6th, MARK MARTIN 37th, TRAVIS KVAPIL 8th, DENNY HAMLIN 43rd, JOE NEMECHEK 15th, MARTIN TRUEX JR. DNQ, MIKE BLISS 17th, KYLE BUSCH DNQ, DAVID REUTIMANN 18th, LANDON CASSILL DNQ, JJ YELEY 19th, JOEY LOGANO 26th, BOBBY LABONTE

A.J. Allmendinger (No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Dodge Charger R/T) Qualified 11th “We’ve just got to keep working on it. The car is not bad. It’s got a lot of speed in it, obviously. You kind of get spoiled last week with our Dodge being so good so we’ve got to keep working on it."

As usual, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series has numerous cars decked out with special red, white and blue colored paint schemes for the Memorial Day weekend Coca-Cola 600.

RYAN NEWMAN, NO. 39 U.S. ARMY CHEVROLET, met with members of the media at Charlotte Motor Speedway and discussed… and other topics.

Officials from LiftMaster, sponsor of Thursday’s LiftMaster Pole Day, honored the Albemarle (NC) Fire Department as winner of the inaugural LiftMaster Skills Competition held two weeks ago at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

MARTIN TRUEX JR., No. 56 NAPA Auto Parts Toyota Camry, Michael Waltrip Racing How was your practice session? "So far it's been a pretty eventful day for us here at Charlotte. This place has always been pretty difficult for me and it seems like every time we come here we fight something different."

DALE EARNHARDT JR., NO. 88 NATIONAL GUARD ~ AN AMERICAN SALUTE/DIET MOUNTAIN DEW CHEVROLET met with media and discussed running out of gas and missing the win here last year, Memorial Day weekend, Danica Patrick, and more.

TONY STEWART, NO. 14 OFFICE DEPOT/MOBIL 1 CHEVROLET, met with members of the media at Charlotte Motor Speedway and discussed making the transition from IndyCar to NASCAR, qualifying for the Coca-Cola 600 and other topics.