Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 Qualifying
STEWART-HAAS RACING
Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 Qualifying
Date: March 27, 2009
Event: Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 Qualifying (Round 6 of 36)
Series: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Location: Martinsville (Va.) Speedway (.526-mile oval)
Pole Winner: None, qualifying canceled due to rain (field set via current car owner point standings)
SHR Lineup: Tony Stewart (7th) Ryan Newman (27th)
Rain canceled today’s qualifying session for the Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway. As a result, the 43-car field for Sunday’s 500-lap race was set by current car owner points per the NASCAR rulebook.
Tony Stewart, driver of the No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala SS for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR), will start seventh. The co-owner of SHR along with Oxnard, Calif.-based Haas Automation – the largest CNC machine tool builder in the western world – will look to score his third Sprint Cup victory at Martinsville, as he won in the fall of 2000 and the spring of 2006.
Ryan Newman, driver of the No. 39 U.S. Army Chevrolet Impala SS for SHR, will start 27th. He has six top-10 finishes in 14 career Sprint Cup starts at the .526-mile oval, with a best finish of second in the fall of 2007.
Jeff Gordon will start from the pole, as his No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports team leads the Sprint Cup owner standings by 76 points over the No. 2 Penske Championship Racing team of Kurt Busch, who will start on the outside of row one. Clint Bowyer, Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards comprise the remainder of the top-five. Kasey Kahne, Stewart, Denny Hamlin, three-time and reigning Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson and Matt Kenseth complete the top-10.
Forty-seven drivers were slated to qualify for the Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500. Those not making the cut in the 43-car field were Sterling Marlin, Tony Raines, Dennis Setzer and Derrike Cope.
The Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 gets underway at 2 p.m. EDT on Sunday, March 29 with live coverage provided by FOX beginning with its pre-race show at 1:30 p.m.
