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NASCAR Pocono Starting Lineup 2012: Joey Logano Leads Qualifying

The top 36 qualifiers all broke the track record at Pocono Raceway during Saturday’s qualifying session for the Pocono 400, but the fastest car belonged to Joey Logano.

Logano, who also led Friday’s final Sprint Cup Series practice session, won the pole for Sunday’s race with a track-record speed of 179.598 mph.

It was the fourth pole of Logano’s career and first since the last time NASCAR visited Pocono, in August.

Here is the starting lineup for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Pocono Raceway:

  1. Joey Logano
  2. Carl Edwards
  3. Paul Menard
  4. Kyle Busch
  5. Denny Hamlin
  6. Mark Martin
  7. Regan Smith
  8. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
  9. Marcos Ambrose
  10. Kasey Kahne
  11. Jamie McMurray
  12. Jeff Gordon
  13. Greg Biffle
  14. Matt Kenseth
  15. Landon Cassill
  16. Clint Bowyer
  17. Juan Pablo Montoya
  18. Ryan Newman
  19. AJ Allmendinger
  20. Jeff Burton
  21. Kevin Harvick
  22. Tony Stewart
  23. Martin Truex Jr.
  24. Jimmie Johnson
  25. David Reutimann
  26. Casey Mears
  27. Bobby Labonte
  28. Mike Bliss
  29. Aric Almirola
  30. Michael McDowell
  31. Brad Keselowski
  32. JJ Yeley
  33. Joe Nemechek
  34. David Ragan
  35. Josh Wise
  36. David Gilliland
  37. Travis Kvapil
  38. Scott Riggs
  39. Stacy Compton
  40. Tony Raines
  41. Reed Sorenson
  42. Dave Blaney
  43. Stephen Leicht

DNQ: David Stremme

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