 Kyle Busch scored the pole for the race with a time of 26.014 and a speed of .He said afterwards that he "cooled everything back down to make sure we gave it everything we got.We just made a couple of fine-tuning adjustments from what we ran before and it was a tick faster, not much, just a tick.” Jimmie Johnson and Kasey Kahne will both go to backup cars after mishaps in qualifying with the former crashing out and the latter changing engines.