Jeff Gordon was nearly a mile an hour faster than the rest of the field Saturday winning the pole for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup series GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. Gordon was the final driver of the 45 entries in NASCAR’s modified knockout qualifying session and put down a lap of 49.160 seconds 194.793 miles per hour to secure his 80th career pole.
The rest of the Hendrick Motorsports contingent was quick as Kasey Kahne, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Jimmie Johnson all qualified in the top five: Kahne second, Earnhardt fourth and Johnson fifth. The pole was Gordon’s third of the season his first coming at the last restrictor plate race, the season opening Daytona 500.
“I am so proud of this pole because we got the pole in Daytona, but it was a totally different format,” Gordon said. MORE>>>
Greg is the author of "The Nuts and Bolts of NASCAR: The Definitive Viewers' Guide to Big-Time Stock Car Auto Racing" and has been published in major publications across the country including the Los Angeles Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was also a contributor to Chicken Soup for the NASCAR Soul, published in 2010, and the Christmas edition in 2016. He wrote as the NASCAR, Formula 1, Auto Reviews and National Veterans Affairs Examiner for Examiner.com and has appeared on Fox News. He holds a BS degree in communications, a Masters degree in psychology and is currently a PhD candidate majoring in psychology. He is currently the weekend Motorsports Editor for Autoweek.
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