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NNS: Bayne Takes Iowa Pole
Trevor Bayne has three consecutive NNS poles...
Tom Jensen  |  Posted July 31, 2010   Newton, IA
Trevor Bayne with the pole award for the NASCAR Nationwide Series U.S. Cellular 250 at Iowa Speedway. (Photo: LAT Photographic)
Trevor Bayne’s hot qualifying streak continued Saturday at Iowa Speedway, where he captured the pole for tonight’s U.S. Cellular 250 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Iowa Speedway.

PDF> STARTING LINEUP BY ROW: U.S. CELLULAR 250 - IOWA SPEEDWAY
PDF> STARTING LINEUP BY CAR: U.S. CELLULAR 250 - IOWA SPEEDWAY
LINK > QUALIFYING RESULTS: U.S. CELLULAR 250 - IOWA SPEEDWAY

It was the third consecutive pole for the 19 year-old Bayne, who now has four career poles in 36 career NNS starts.

Bayne lapped the 0.875-mile Iowa oval at 133.266 miles per hour in his No. 99 Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota. That was enough to give him the top starting spot over Kyle Busch, who qualified the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota at 133.007 mph.

Qualifying on Row 2 behind Bayne and Busch were Brian Scott, who’ll start third in his Braun Racing Toyota, which qualified at 133.001 mph. Starting on the outside of Row 2 will be the Penske Racing Dodge of series points leader Brad Keselowski, 132.755 mph.

Rolling off on Row 3 will be Steve Wallace and Jason Leffler. Completing the top 10 were Kevin Harvick, Justin Allgaier, Matt Dibenedetto and Kevin Lepage.

The presence of NASCAR Sprint Cup regulars like Busch, Keselowski and Harvick in the Nationwide Series doesn’t bother Bayne.

“I always talked about how I wanted to be a Sprint Cup champion one day and I think that’s what is going to benefit me the most is racing against these guys every week and it’s going to make me a better driver,” said Bayne, who is still looking for his first career NNS victory.

“If everything was just handed to us it would seem easy and we’d step into Sprint Cup and we’d struggle even more so than now,” he said. “I kind of enjoy the struggle a little bit. I definitely would like to see some of us getting some wins now and then, but it’s definitely making us better for the future.”

It was a brutal day for Roush Fenway Racing drivers Colin Braun and Ricky Stenhouse Jr., both of whom crashed in qualifying. Stenhouse also crashed in practice, which means having wrecked both his cars, he’ll race Carl Edwards’ backup car in tonight’s race.

PDF> STARTING LINEUP BY ROW: U.S. CELLULAR 250 - IOWA SPEEDWAY
PDF> STARTING LINEUP BY CAR: U.S. CELLULAR 250 - IOWA SPEEDWAY
LINK > QUALIFYING RESULTS: U.S. CELLULAR 250 - IOWA SPEEDWAY

Tom Jensen is the Editor in Chief of SPEED.com, Senior NASCAR Editor at RACER and a contributing Editor for TruckSeries.com. You can follow him online at twitter.com/tomjensen100 and e-mail him at Jensen is the author of “Cheating: The Bad Things Good NASCAR Nextel Cup Racers Do In Pursuit of Speed,” and has appeared on numerous television and radio shows. Jensen is the past President of the National Motorsports Press Association and an NMPA Writer of the Year.

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