Juan Pablo Montoya Takes Outside Pole for Second Chase Race

Juan Pablo Montoya surprised himself by scoring the outside pole for the second race in NASCAR's Chase for the Championship at Dover International Speedway. Montoya was only 0.0096 seconds slower than pole sitter Jimmie Johnson, with a time of 22.974 and a speed of 156.699. "When Jimmie ran those laps in practice, I knew unless he did a huge mistake, we weren't going to get that pole," Montoya said. Montoya was the first car out on the track for the qualifying session. While Montoya planned to run two laps, he decided that he had had enough after his first one. "When I finished the first lap, I told them (his crew) there's no way I'm going to get any more out of the car," Montoya said. "I didn't have anything else. That's what we got." ...

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