Kyle Busch on Lowe's pole again

The current points leader set a fastest lap of 29.121 seconds at an average speed of 185.433 mph to score his second pole of the season and the fourth of his Sprint Cup Series career, following some set-up changes after the afternoon practice.

"We knew that we had to learn something and try something, so whatever it was it worked," Busch said.

"I'm not really sure exactly what we did but they just put [the car] up back on scales and went back through it and hopefully they found something that was either a little bit off or changed something that we may actually have learned."

All-Star winner Kasey Kahne was able to maintain the speed he showed last week to take second on the grid for Sunday after sitting on pole for a while. The Gillett Evernham driver claimed his best qualifying result of the year and hopes to repeat the success of last week in an event he won two years ago.

"That was a good lap for us," Kahne said. "It just wasn't good enough to stand up for the pole. We made some adjustments that went in the right direction for us. I was a little bit free coming off turn 3, but other that that, it was good, clean lap that will allow us to start up front and gain a great pit stall."

Brian Vickers also had his best qualifying result of the year and will start third in his Red Bull Toyota, while Roush Fenway's Greg Biffle was fourth and the fastest among the Fords. His teammate David Ragan, who had been fastest in practice, rounded up the top-five.

Dale Earnhardt Jr was sixth and best among the Chevrolets. He had been third fastest in the afternoon practice and has been running comfortably fastest of the Hendrick Motorsports camp, although he anticipates a tough race on Sunday.

"The car is going to be a challenge," Earnhardt said. "Just mentally trying to talk yourself in to working that hard, for that long of a period of time. Those last 100 miles are really, really tough. You have to just continually remind yourself what is at stake. It is going to be a challenge, but we are up to the challenge."

Sam Hornish Jr was fastest of the drivers who needed to make the field on time, running a very quick second lap after having a 'moment' on his first try. Sterling Marlin also made the field replacing Dario Franchitti and will start from 26th, ahead of Red Bull's AJ Allmendinger.

"I was glad we didn't put it in the fence," Hornish said. "It got a little scary there going into [turn] one on the first lap. We weren't really sure. We thought the track was going to tighten up a whole lot more than it did and we had a feeling that it wasn't going to after running the Nationwide car.

"We kind of backed up a little bit on some of our changes. Probably should have went some more."

Also making the field was Ken Schrader driving a fourth entry for Richard Childress Racing, as well as Canadian Patrick Carpentier.

With forty-eight cars entered for the event, five of them were sent home following the session. Jeff Green, Stanton Barrett, Jon Wood, Joe Nemechek and Tony Raines all failed to make the field.

Pos  Driver               Make        Speed     Time
 1.  Kyle Busch           Toyota      185.433   29.121
 2.  Kasey Kahne          Dodge       185.300   29.142 + 0.021
 3.  Brian Vickers        Toyota      185.249   29.150 + 0.029
 4.  Greg Biffle          Ford        184.969   29.194 + 0.073
 5.  David Ragan          Ford        184.470   29.273 + 0.152
 6.  Dale Earnhardt Jr    Chevrolet   184.439   29.278 + 0.157
 7.  Mark Martin          Chevrolet   184.181   29.319 + 0.198
 8.  Kurt Busch           Dodge       184.106   29.331 + 0.210
 9.  Elliott Sadler       Dodge       183.974   29.352 + 0.231
10.  Jimmie Johnson       Chevrolet   183.924   29.360 + 0.239
11.  Dave Blaney          Toyota      183.842   29.373 + 0.252
12.  Matt Kenseth         Ford        183.780   29.383 + 0.262
13.  Scott Riggs          Chevrolet   183.673   29.400 + 0.279
14.  Jeff Burton          Chevrolet   183.617   29.409 + 0.288
15.  Jamie McMurray       Ford        183.580   29.415 + 0.294
16.  Denny Hamlin         Toyota      183.455   29.435 + 0.314
17.  Reed Sorenson        Dodge       183.443   29.437 + 0.316
18.  Jeff Gordon          Chevrolet   183.436   29.438 + 0.317
19.  Kevin Harvick        Chevrolet   183.430   29.439 + 0.318
20.  Sam Hornish Jr       Dodge       183.349   29.452 + 0.331
21.  Casey Mears          Chevrolet   183.275   29.464 + 0.343
22.  Robby Gordon         Dodge       183.212   29.474 + 0.353
23.  Bobby Labonte        Dodge       183.200   29.476 + 0.355
24.  Martin Truex Jr      Chevrolet   183.169   29.481 + 0.360
25.  Paul Menard          Chevrolet   183.132   29.487 + 0.366
26.  Sterling Marlin      Dodge       183.057   29.499 + 0.378
27.  A.J. Allmendinger    Toyota      182.852   29.532 + 0.411
28.  David Reutimann      Toyota      182.729   29.552 + 0.431
29.  Michael Waltrip      Toyota      182.692   29.558 + 0.437
30.  Carl Edwards         Ford        182.168   29.643 + 0.522
31.  Tony Stewart         Toyota      182.113   29.652 + 0.531
32.  David Gilliland      Ford        182.020   29.667 + 0.546
33.  Ken Schrader         Chevrolet   181.984   29.673 + 0.552
34.  Patrick Carpentier   Dodge       181.867   29.692 + 0.571
35.  J.J. Yeley           Toyota      181.726   29.715 + 0.594
36.  Kyle Petty           Dodge       181.714   29.717 + 0.596
37.  Regan Smith          Chevrolet   181.702   29.719 + 0.598
38.  Ryan Newman          Dodge       181.531   29.747 + 0.626
39.  Clint Bowyer         Chevrolet   181.482   29.755 + 0.634
40.  Michael McDowell     Toyota      181.464   29.758 + 0.637
41.  Travis Kvapil        Ford        180.156   29.974 + 0.853
42.  Juan Montoya         Dodge       179.521   30.080 + 0.959
43.  Johnny Sauter        Chevrolet   181.446   29.761 + 0.640