NASCAR Cup Series

KASEY KAHNE, No. 4 Red Bull Toyota Camry, Red Bull Racing Team Starting Position: 8th How was your qualifying lap? "It was a pretty decent lap. We had a really good car."

BRAD KESELOWSKI (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger R/T) IT SEEMS LIKE SOMETIMES WHEN PEOPLE BRING NEW CARS TO THE TRACK THEY HAVE A HARD TIME TUNING THEM. “Things like that happen. That’s okay. You’re not going to get better standing still.”

For 13th time in his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) career, Tony Stewart will lead the 43-car field to the green flag.

DAVID RAGAN - No. 6 UPS Ford Fusion - "Our UPS Ford was pretty good in practice. We made a few small adjustments and would have liked to have gone a little bit more. I wish I could do it all over again, but our car is really fast here at Charlotte and we were afraid to really do too much. Hopefully, that will wind up in the top 10 or so and we'll have a great car for Saturday."

JEFF GORDON NO. 24 DRIVE TO END HUNGER/CHEVY 100TH ANNIVERSARY CHEVROLET ON HIS QUALIFYING EFFORT: QUALIFIED 23RD "We are missing something today. We have been off all day, in practice and we tried to get more out of it there."

Tony Stewart captured his thirteenth career pole Thursday evening at Charlotte Motor Speedway with a qualifying speed of 191.959 mph.

KURT BUSCH (No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ultra Dodge Charger R/T) Qualified 20th “A fun lap, just too loose for our car and we’ll see where we end up. You know when it goes into nightfall the track get fast, you just don’t know what to expect exactly.”

There's good news for racing fans: the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is bringing their 2011 Chase For The Championship to the Charlotte Motor Speedway, a racing environment that has been serving up on track excitement and drama since 1960.