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Qualifying is on in 10 minutes.........Speed Channel

Order....

Pos Car Driver Team
1 07 Clint Bowyer DirecTV Chevrolet
2 1 Martin Truex Jr. Bass Pro Shops/Tracker Boats Chevrolet
3 01 Regan Smith # Dale Earnhardt, Inc./Principal Chevrolet
4 66 Scott Riggs Haas Automation Chevrolet
5 24 Jeff Gordon DuPont/Nicorette Chevrolet
6 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. National Guard/AMP Energy Chevrolet
7 55 Michael Waltrip NAPA Auto Parts Toyota
8 6 David Ragan AAA Insurance Ford
9 96 JJ Yeley DLP HDTV Toyota
10 99 Carl Edwards Aflac Ford
11 31 Jeff Burton AT&T Mobility Chevrolet
12 41 Reed Sorenson Target/Glad Dodge
13 7 Robby Gordon Menards/MAPEI Dodge
14 18 Kyle Busch Snickers Toyota
15 12 Ryan Newman alltel Dodge
16 9 Kasey Kahne Budweiser Dodge
17 20 Tony Stewart Subway Toyota
18 48 Jimmie Johnson Lowe’s Chevrolet
19 5 Casey Mears Kellogg’s/CARQUEST Chevrolet
20 42 Juan Pablo Montoya Wrigley’s Big Red Dodge
21 43 Bobby Labonte Cheerios Racing/Betty Crocker Dodge
22 19 Elliott Sadler Stanley Tools Dodge
23 2 Kurt Busch Miller Lite Dodge
24 28 Travis Kvapil Ford Drive one Ford
25 83 Brian Vickers Red Bull Toyota
26 00 Michael McDowell # Aaron’s Dream Machine Toyota
27 38 David Gilliland Yates Racing Ford
28 17 Matt Kenseth DeWalt/Nano Ford
29 8 Mark Martin U.S. Army Chevrolet
30 15 Paul Menard Menards/Johns Manville Chevrolet
31 16 Greg Biffle 3M Ford
32 77 Sam Hornish Jr. # Mobil 1 Dodge
33 29 Kevin Harvick Reese’s Chevrolet
34 11 Denny Hamlin FedEx Kinko’s/March of Dimes Toyota
35 26 Jamie McMurray Crown Royal Ford
36 40 * Dario Franchitti # Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit Dodge
37 78 * Joe Nemechek Furniture Row Racing Chevrolet
38 45 * Kyle Petty Wells Fargo Dodge
39 34 * John Andretti Chevrolet
40 84 * Mike Skinner Red Bull Toyota
41 21 * Bill Elliott Motorcraft Ford
42 22 * Dave Blaney Caterpillar Toyota
43 44 * David Reutimann UPS Toyota
44 10 * Patrick Carpentier # LifeLock Dodge
45 70 * Johnny Sauter Haas Automation Chevrolet

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF AARON FIKE’S REVELATION THIS WEEK OF HIS HEROIN USE DURING RACES? “Harvick "I had a long conversation with NASCAR the last time we had this policy brought up in the end of the year last year and it almost seems like it went on deaf ears. I’m disappointed with the fact that we’re in a case where we have to have a reaction instead of being proactive about the situation. So that part I’m disappointed with that we have to answer these questions again and we haven’t made any headway whatsoever on the drug testing policy. In the 10 years that I’ve raced, I’ve never been drug tested. So to me that is not a proper professional sports drug policy and as I went up and talked to them about it. They were more mad that I had a reaction to the situation than they were as far as trying to move forward. To me, it was just kind of one of those meetings where they were content to listen to what I had to say and that was about it. My name is not Jeff Gordon.”

DID YOU GET ANGRY THAT YOU HAD BEEN IN A RACE WITH FIKE? “I have been in a race with him and I know for a fact that he’s not the only one. There’s another driver that is suspended that I can almost guarantee you was in a race car while he was under the influence and that pisses me off. That is not fair to the 95 percent of this garage and that’s the bad part about it is 95 percent of this garage I can guarantee you is clean, but there’s a five percent chance - it’s just like the safety thing back in 2001 the reason that we reacted to it, we weren’t proactive until that situation happened.

“There’s no reason not to be proactive in the state of the world of sports, there’s no reason not to be proactive in the drug situation and that to me is irresponsible more than it is anything. I’m sure I’ll be blasted from somebody for saying what I feel but I don’t want to be on the race track with people like that.”

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YOU SAID NASCAR LAUGHED AT YOUR OR JUST IGNORED YOU? “They were more mad that I spoke my opinion about it, then they were about trying to listen to what I had to say. I’ve had several situations like that lately where they just kind of listen to what you want to say and that’s the end of it. There’s not a whole lot that they want to listen to for some reason. We’re not all against them, we all have the same goal in mind here to take this forward. I’m just really frustrated about the whole deal just for the fact that I know that 95 percent of the garage is clean and there’s a lot of people I don’t know. Those are the ones - you just need to know what you’re racing against.”