McMurray Wins Pole For Auto Club 500 @ California

Jamie McMurray rode his Daytona 500 win and whirlwind media tour into Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California on Friday and won the pole for Sunday’s Auto Club 500 at Auto Club Speedway in Southern California in his Bass Pro Shops Tracker Boats #1 car for EGR. McMurray’s lap of 39.18 @ 183.76 mph took the pole late in qualifying and earned him his first pole for 2010 and 4^th overall matching his number of wins in Sprint Cup. Juan Pablo Montoya will start second as it is a all Earnhardt Ganassi front row for California. Also a great qualifying run for Dave Blaney in the #66 for Prism Motorsports this team needs a sponsor hopefully with a good run at California they can get one. Mark Martin was fastest in practice earlier on Friday and Greg Biffle was fastest in the Nationwide Series final practice they will qualify on Saturday before the race. Here is the lineup for the Auto Club 500 @ Auto Club Speedway in California on Sunday the race will be live on Fox at 2pm est.

Auto Club 500 @ Auto Club Speedway Fontana, California.

1.Jamie McMurray

2.Juan Pablo Montoya

3.Clint Bowyer

4.Kasey Kahne

5.Dave Blaney

6.Kevin Harvick

7.Jimmie Johnson

8.Sam Hornish Jr

9.Kyle Busch

10.Mark Martin

The Roush Fenway cars have always been strong at California winning the last five spring races @ Auto Club but David Ragan was the highest qualifying Roush Fenway car in 15th. Matt Kenseth last year’s winner is 20th the daddy to be Carl Edwards is 31st and Greg Biffle is 35th. Dale Earnhardt Jr who was 2ndin the Daytona 500 last week is 27th and Jeff Gordon who won the first race at Auto Club in 1997 is 28th.