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Biffle takes Busch Lowe's pole

Greg Biffle scored his third Busch Series pole position of the season in qualifying for the Dollar General 300 at Lowe's Motor Speedway

Biffle set a laptime of 29.426 seconds at an average speed of 183.511 mph at the wheel of the No. 16 Ford Fusion. He topped his teammates Matt Kenseth and Jamie McMurray, who completed a top-three sweep of the grid by Roush Fenway cars.

All of the team's cars were in the top-ten in fact, as points leader Carl Edwards set the fifth fastest lap, beaten by Dave Blaney's Toyota to the second row of the grid. Rookie David Ragan was tenth in the team's other car.

Also quick in qualifying and looking strong for the race were both of Joe Gibbs' cars driven by Denny Hamlin and Aric Almirola, who will line up sixth and seventh on the grid for tonight's 200-lap race.

Veteran Jason Keller achieved a milestone by securing his 418th start in the Busch Series by qualifying 36th, becoming the driver with the highest number of starts in the series' history.

Before this race, he was tied in the records book for all-time starts with Tommy Houston. None of the two have been series' champions however.

"About a year and a half ago, I didn't think I would ever break his record," Keller said about beating Houston's mark. "Hopefully we will have a lot more to go."

The session was also marked by a number of crashes, with four different drivers hitting the wall in their qualifying runs. The first one to do so was AJ Allmendinger, who spun at the exit of turn four on his second lap in the No. 42 Ganassi Dodge.

Another three drivers followed but did not even manage to set a time before spinning, including JJ Yeley, Casey Atwoond and Blake Bjorklund. They all made the field through owner points status.

Eric McClure, DJ Kennington and Travis Kittleson all failed to qualify for the race.

Pos  Driver             Make        Speed     Time
 1.  Greg Biffle        Ford        183.511   29.426
 2.  Matt Kenseth       Ford        182.933   29.519 + 0.093
 3.  Jamie McMurray     Ford        182.834   29.535 + 0.109
 4.  Dave Blaney        Toyota      182.692   29.558 + 0.132
 5.  Carl Edwards       Ford        182.414   29.603 + 0.177
 6.  Denny Hamlin       Chevrolet   182.242   29.631 + 0.205
 7.  Aric Almirola      Chevrolet   181.977   29.674 + 0.248
 8.  David Reutimann    Toyota      181.947   29.679 + 0.253
 9.  Stephen Leicht     Ford        181.745   29.712 + 0.286
10.  David Ragan        Ford        181.500   29.752 + 0.326
11.  Mike Bliss         Dodge       181.415   29.766 + 0.340
12.  Kasey Kahne        Dodge       181.305   29.784 + 0.358
13.  Jeff Burton        Chevrolet   181.238   29.795 + 0.369
14.  Bryan Clauson      Dodge       181.232   29.796 + 0.370
15.  Reed Sorenson      Dodge       181.068   29.823 + 0.397
16.  Clint Bowyer       Chevrolet   181.044   29.827 + 0.401
17.  Stanton Barrett    Chevrolet   180.983   29.837 + 0.411
18.  Marcos Ambrose     Ford        180.886   29.853 + 0.427
19.  Scott Wimmer       Chevrolet   180.523   29.913 + 0.487
20.  Bobby Labonte      Chevrolet   180.481   29.920 + 0.494
21.  Richard Johns      Ford        180.373   29.938 + 0.512
22.  Brad Baker         Ford        180.331   29.945 + 0.519
23.  Bobby Hamilton Jr  Ford        180.216   29.964 + 0.538
24.  Kyle Busch         Chevrolet   180.108   29.982 + 0.556
25.  Kevin Harvick      Chevrolet   179.874   30.021 + 0.595
26.  Dale Earnhardt Jr  Chevrolet   179.766   30.039 + 0.613
27.  Jason Leffler      Toyota      179.491   30.085 + 0.659
28.  AJ Allmendinger    Dodge       179.170   30.139 + 0.713
29.  Robby Gordon       Ford        179.146   30.143 + 0.717
30.  Kelly Bires        Ford        179.128   30.146 + 0.720
31.  Jimmie Johnson     Chevrolet   178.885   30.187 + 0.761
32.  Mike Wallace       Chevrolet   178.838   30.195 + 0.769
33.  Bobby Santos       Toyota      178.524   30.250 + 0.824
34.  Jeremy Clements    Chevrolet   178.006   30.336 + 0.910
35.  Brad Keselowski    Chevrolet   177.795   30.372 + 0.946
36.  Jason Keller       Chevrolet   176.390   30.614 + 1.188
37.  Kertus Davis       Chevrolet   176.033   30.676 + 1.250
38.  Kyle Krisiloff     Ford        175.576   30.756 + 1.330
39.  Carl Long          Dodge       173.416   31.139 + 1.713
40.  Eric McClure       Chevrolet   172.944   31.224 + 1.798
41.  JJ Yeley           Chevrolet   -
42.  Blake Bjorklund    Chevrolet   -
43.  Morgan Shepherd    Dodge       173.410   31.140 + 1.714

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