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Front Row Motorsports AdvoCare 500 Qualifying Report

Track:  Atlanta Motor Speedway, 1.5-mile oval, Hampton, Ga.
Pole Winner: Kasey Kahne

Pole Time:  29.78 seconds

Pole Speed:  186.196 miles per hour
TV/Radio: SPEED/PRN/SIRIUSXM

No. 34 A&W All American Food Ford Qualifying Position:
36th

No. 38 Vampt Ford Qualifying Position: 31st
No. 55 Lazy Days RV Ford Qualifying Position:  41st

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season heats up with a trip to the Southeast this weekend for the AdvoCare 500 in Atlanta, Ga.  Front Row Motorsports welcomes new sponsorship partner Vampt on the No. 38 Ford Fusion, driven by J.J. Yeley. 


David Gilliland and the No. 34 A&W All American Food team, Yeley and the No. 38 Vampt team and Travis Kvapil and the No. 55 Lazy Days RV team got their first practice laps in on Friday evening, and then a second and final practice on Saturday afternoon.  The Saturday session brought a tough challenge for the No. 38 Vampt team, with Yeley scraping the wall on his first lap on the track.  With the car required to make the race on speed, the team worked hard to repair the damage and get Yeley back on track in time to run four solid laps before practice ended.

The efforts paid off in Saturday's late-afternoon qualifying session, with all three Front Row entries making the starting field for the AdvoCare 500.  Yeley had the speed to make the starting grid in 31st, Gilliland qualified 36th and Kvapil qualified on speed in 41st.  Kasey Kahne took the pole, holding off a threat from Clint Bowyer, who will start second.  Tony Raines, David Stremme, Geoffrey Bodine and T.J. Bell did not qualify for the starting field.

The teams now prepare to race under the lights in Sunday's AdvoCare 500 -- and hope a rain-threatening forecast for Sunday night is wrong.  Coverage of the holiday-weekend event begins at 7:30pm ET on ESPN.

David Gilliland

David Gilliland

Comments from No. 34 A&W Ford team driver David Gilliland after qualifying at Atlanta:
 

"We were way too loose on our qualifying run. We didn't really do too much in qualifying trim in practice.  We're saving a lot of our tires for race stuff, but we still wanted to qualify a lot better than that. We were just way too loose. I couldn't get back to the gas the way I needed to, but I expect good things out of our A&W Ford Fusion for the race."

 

 

J.J. Yeley

J.J. Yeley

Comments from No. 38 Vampt Ford team driver J.J. Yeley after qualifying at Atlanta:
 

"The racetrack just didn't have the grip in practice.  I never had a chance at making that turn.  Luckily the wall stopped me or I would've kept going.  These guys worked really hard in practice and we made a ton of changes.  I felt bad that I made them work so hard.  But the qualifying lap was pretty good.  We didn't push it too hard, but I think we've got a pretty good Vampt Ford Fusion."

 

 

 

Travis Kvapil

Travis Kvapil

Comments from No. 55 Lazy Days RV Ford team driver Travis Kvapil after qualifying at Atlanta:

 

"We kind of struggled with the handling on this car all weekend, and right toward the end of practice, we got it. We were fighting a really loose condition and then we got it to the other side where it was too tight. So, we went back a little bit and made it better, and we were actually still just a little too tight in our qualifying lap there. But, I'm proud of these guys. They worked really hard and we're in the show. That's all that matters."

About Front Row Motorsports:

Front Row Motorsports is a Statesville, N.C.-based race team in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Formed in 2005 by restaurant entrepreneur Bob Jenkins, the team has competed in NASCAR racing in each year since its inception, expanding full-time to the premier Sprint Cup Series in 2009.  The team partners with Ford Racing and Roush-Yates Racing Engines to field the No. 34 Taco Bell Ford driven by David Gilliland, the No. 38 Long John Silver's Ford driven by Travis Kvapil and the No. 55 Front Row Motorsports Ford driven by J. J. Yeley.
 

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