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CUP: Kahne Raises Second Pole Of Season
Kasey Kahne won the pole for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Carfax 400 at Michigan International Speedway...
Mike Hembree  |  Posted August 13, 2010   Brooklyn, MI
Kasey Kahne, driver of the #9 Budweiser, autographs the pole award board after he qualified first for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series CARFAX 400 at Michigan International Speedway. (Photo: Getty Images)
Kasey Kahne is leaving Richard Petty Motorsports, and he’s doing it “quickly”.

LINK> QUALIFYING RESULTS: CARFAX 400 - MICHIGAN INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY

Kahne turned a lap at 187.183 mph in an RPM Ford Friday to win the pole position for Sunday’s Carfax 400 Sprint Cup race at Michigan International Speedway.

Kahne is scheduled to drive for Red Bull Racing next season as a way station on his trip to Hendrick Motorsports in 2012. He plans to complete this year at RPM, however.

“I blew through turns one and two and felt really good,” Kahne said of his pole lap. “I got to turn three, and I wasn’t too sure. I pushed the nose a little. I felt like one and two was where we got the pole because we were really good there.”

Kahne, winless and 17th in points entering Sunday’s race, scored his second pole of the season.

Kahne edged defending series champion Jimmie Johnson, who ran 187.086 and was the only other driver over 187.

Following the top two were Clint Bowyer, who is battling Mark Martin for the 12th and final Chase qualifying spot, Tony Stewart and Juan Pablo Montoya, the series’ most recent winner.

Failing to qualify in the 47-car time-trial group were Mike Bliss, J.J. Yeley, Scott Riggs and Casey Mears.

LINK> QUALIFYING RESULTS: CARFAX 400 - MICHIGAN INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY

Mike Hembree is NASCAR Editor for SPEED.com and has been covering motorsports for 28 years. He has written several books on NASCAR, including "NASCAR: The Definitive History of America's Sport" and "Then Tony Said To Junior: The Best NASCAR Stories Ever Told". He is a six-time winner of the National Motorsports Press Association Writer of the Year Award.

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