 During qualifying , forty @-@ seven cars were entered , but only forty @-@ three will be able to race because of NASCAR 's qualifying procedure . Kasey Kahne clinched his eighteenth career pole position , with a time of 38 @.@ 465 . After his qualifying run , Kahne commented , " [ Turns ] 1 and 2 were really strong . Coming to the green , I felt like I was a little bit free , and it was the same through 1 and 2 , but I got through there really good and carried a lot of speed down the backstretch . Then , when I got to Turn 3 , I couldn 't get it to turn enough , so I kind of just floored it and actually used up a lot of the racetrack , went up the track a little bit loose off [ the corner ] and definitely didn 't have as good a 3 and 4 as I would have liked . At that point , I thought I probably gave the pole away , but we were able to still hang on just from the speed that we had in 1 and 2 . " He was joined on the front row of the grid by Jimmie Johnson . Clint Bowyer qualified third , Tony Stewart took fourth , and Montoya started fifth , after being scored ninth in the final practice session . The four drivers that did not qualify were J. J. Yeley , Scott Riggs , Casey Mears , and Mike Bliss . 
