STEWART-HAAS RACING: Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 Qualifying
STEWART-HAAS RACING
Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 Qualifying
Date: July 31, 2009
Event: Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 Qualifying (Round 21 of 36)
Series: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Location: Pocono (Pa.) Raceway (2.5-mile triangle)
Pole Winner: None, qualifying canceled due to rain (field set via current car owner point standings)
SHR Lineup: Tony Stewart (1st)
Ryan Newman (7th)
Rain canceled today’s qualifying session for Sunday’s Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway. As a result, the 43-car field for Sunday’s 200-lap event was set by current car owner points per the NASCAR rulebook.
Tony Stewart, driver of the No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot “Swagger” Chevrolet Impala SS for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR), will start on the pole as his car is first in owner points.
Stewart, who won at Pocono in June to score his first victory as a driver/owner, returns to the 2.5-mile triangle with a special Old Spice Swagger paint scheme highlighting the brand’s scented line of men’s anti-perspirant/deodorant, body wash and body spray. He’ll look to sweep the Pocono races and add to his swagger by scoring his third career win at the Tricky Triangle. Stewart’s first Pocono victory came in June 2003.
Ryan Newman, driver of the No. 39 Haas Automation/U.S. Army Chevrolet Impala SS for SHR, will start seventh. Newman, like Stewart, is a winner at Pocono. He won in July 2003.
Jimmie Johnson will start alongside Stewart on the outside of row one, while Jeff Gordon, Kurt Busch and Carl Edwards comprise the remainder of the top-five. Denny Hamlin, Ryan Newman, Kasey Kahne, Mark Martin and Juan Pablo Montoya rounded out the top-10.
With only 43 drivers slated to qualify for the Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500, no one was forced to go home.
The Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 gets underway at 2 p.m. EDT on Sunday, Aug. 2 with live coverage provided by ESPN beginning with its pre-race show at 1 p.m.
