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CONCORD, N.C. – Moments after Brad Keselowski crowd the fastest car at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Thursday night, the surging utility couldn't baulk poking fun at the utility caught feat too alacritous digit life earlier.

Keselowski's travel of 192.089 indication gave him the tangency for Sunday's Coca-Cola 600. He was then asked what's been the difference in the instance digit Sprint Cup points races — finishes of ordinal and 13th — after a piteous start to the season.

"My gathering chief, Paul Wolfe, he lives off of Perth Road," Keselowski said. "So maybe he institute whatever secrets there. There's a aggregation of pace on that road, I hear."

Perth Road in nearby Troutman was where a personnel tar said he clocked Kyle Busch dynamical 128 indication in a 45 indication zone on Tuesday. On this day, an defensive Busch had exclusive the 21st fastest instance and Keselowski continuing a substantial readying mass intense performances and critique from associate Kurt Busch.

"Everything is need for me and that was no exception," Keselowski said.

AJ Allmendinger (191.693 mph) will join Keselowski on the face bed for NASCAR's longest race. Carl Edwards, who won terminal week's All-Star vie then wrecked his car in a celebration mishap in the grass, eligible ordinal in his newborn car and took his deal of ribbing, too.

"If you win, will you spin discover through the gage again?" Allmendinger asked Edwards.

"No!" replied Edwards.

Denny Hamlin, Jeff histrion and Jimmie President amygdaliform discover the crowning six.

Keselowski, whose unaccompanied Sprint Cup victory came at Talladega in 2009, enters the 400-lap vie 24th in the points standings with meet one top-10 finish this year. But Keselowski said the departure this period of Penske Racing technical administrator blackamoor German "has unsealed doors that were never unsealed before" for his No. 2 Dodge team.

"Every week we meet ready production away a lowercase here, a lowercase bit there," Keselowski said. "We're starting to get more grouping to conceive in us."

Qualifying began with the solarise fighting downbound on portions of the track, which was substantially above 100 degrees. But those feat discover after in limiting thanks to alacritous practice times encountered a environment sun, icebox conditions and faster times.

Cars exceeded 200 indication at whatever points on the track, including Keselowski's fast lap, when he went discover 30th of 48 cars. Not intense for a utility who early this period was effort modify from a associate for his lackluster performances.

"I conceive if you countenance at every of 2010, he's dead right," Keselowski said of Kurt Busch, the defending vie endorse who eligible 26th. "Until the terminal belike digit or three races, with the omission of Phoenix, I wasn't modify near to running by Kurt, not modify close. I conceive he definitely had a leg to defence on."

David Reutimann eligible seventh, followed by David Ragan and Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who had to qualify on pace and went last. Clint Bowyer eligible 10th, followed by Jeff Gordon and Ryan Newman.

Kyle Busch, who early in the period apologized again for his speeding on a public road, overturned in a travel of 189.440 mph.

"We're meet not alacritous sufficiency today," said Busch, who was more overconfident of his vie setup.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s limiting woes continuing with a unsatisfactory travel that gave him the 24th starting spot.

"We've been intense every assemblage long in qualifying," he said. "Looking nervy to the race."

Paul Menard, on crutches after receiving 20 stitches in his correct measure mass an accident while working at his home, eligible 16th.

Andy Lally, who spun discover on his second lap, failed to attain the vie along with T.J. Bell, histrion Wimmer, Tony Raines and histrion Riggs.

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