Pole Report: Jeff Byrd 500 - Bristol Motor Speedway


High banks, high speeds, and hot tempers. Welcome to racing at Bristol Motor Speedway, where anything can happen and usually does. Some drivers dominate year after year and other drivers hang on for their dear lives just hoping to make it from one lap to the next. It's never boring and it's always brutal.

Friday afternoon qualifying for the Jeff Byrd 500 was held with Carl Edwards earning his second pole of the season. Starting alongside Edwards will be his Roush-Fenway Racing teammate Greg Biffle.

Coverage begins at 12:30p.m Sunday on FOX with Green flag scheduled for 1:15p.m.

Here's the full line up along with their intro songs.


  1. Carl Edwards - Theme from Cheers
  2. Greg Biffle -  I Gotta Feeling / Black Eyed Peas
  3. Regan Smith - Welcome to the Family / Avenged Sevenfold
  4. Paul Menard - Concrete Jungle / Black Label Society
  5. David Ragan - No More Mr. Nice Guy / Alice Cooper
  6. Jimmie Johnson - unknown / picked by Brian Vickers
  7. Jeff Gordon - I Won't Back Down / Tom Petty
  8. Martin Truex Jr.- Homeboy / Eric Church
  9. Mark Martin 
  10. Kasey Kahne - A Country Boy Can Survive / Hank Williams Jr.
  11. Matt Kenseth - Nightmare / Avenged Sevenfold
  12. Kyle Busch - Rowdy Busch / Raytona 500
  13. Tony Stewart - Bawitaba / Kid Rock
  14. Marcos Ambrose - Fuel / Metallica
  15. Kevin Harvick - Back In Black / AC/DC
  16. Bobby Labonte - God Bless Texas / Little Texas
  17. Jeff Burton - Welcome to the Jungle / Guns N Roses
  18. Joey Logano - Opposite of Adults / Chiddy Bang
  19. Trevor Bayne - 
  20. Kurt Busch - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer / George Thorogood
  21. Ryan Newman - Theme from Dukes of Hazzard
  22. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
  23. Brad Keselowski
  24. Jamie McMurray - Burn It To The Ground / Nickelback
  25. Denny Hamlin - Shipping Up to Boston / Dropkick Murphys
  26. David Reutimann - Pretty Fly For A White Guy / The Offspring
  27. Clint Bowyer - Theme from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
  28. AJ Allmendinger - Turn Around / Flo Rida
  29. David Gilliland - Wild Side / Motley Crue
  30. Brian Vickers - unknown / picked by Jimmie Johnson
  31. Bill Elliott
  32. Landon Cassill - Never Gonna Give You Up / Rick Astley
  33. Robby Gordon 
  34. Joe Nemechek
  35. Travis Kvapil - Song 2 / Blur
  36. Juan Pablo Montoya - Ladies and Gentlemen / Saliva
  37. Dave Blaney - Ohio State University fight song
  38. JJ Yeley
  39. Michael McDowell - I Saw The Light / David Crowder Band
  40. Dennis Setzer
  41. Tony Raines
  42. Andy Lally -Beat You Down / Downstait 
  43. Casey Mears - Regulate / Warren G
Did not qualify - Ken Schrader
Pole Report: Jeff Byrd 500 - Bristol Motor Speedway Pole Report: Jeff Byrd 500 - Bristol Motor Speedway Reviewed by Katy Lindamood on Friday, March 18, 2011 Rating: 5