Watkins Glen qualifying cancelled due to rain, Gordon will start on pole
Quote selected text Published August 10th, 2007 in NASCAR News
Jeff Gordon started from the back of the field in NASCAR’s first road race of the Nextel Cup season after his team was penalized for a technical violation. This time, he’ll start from the pole.
A misting rain that hovered above Watkins Glen International on Friday became too heavy mid-afternoon and forced NASCAR to cancel qualifying for Sunday’s Centurion Boats at The Glen.
It’s the third time qualifying has been rained out this season in Cup and the third time in four years it’s been washed out at Watkins Glen International. As the runaway points leader, that placed Gordon up front in his No. 24 DuPont Chevrolet as the top 35 cars in the 43-car field were set by points.
“It’s one of the reasons that leading the points like we are right now, it’s where the payoff is,’’ Gordon said after capturing his sixth pole this season and 62nd of his career. “It’s just one of those days. I was in the pace car riding around and the track was dry but the windshield was wet. I thought we were going to find a window, but it just keeps rolling in and making parts of the track wet. There was just no getting around that.’’
STARTING LINEUP:
pos car# driver manu owners pts pos
1 24 Jeff Gordon Chevy 1
2 11 Denny Hamlin Chevy 2
3 17 Matt Kenseth Ford 3
4 31 Jeff Burton Chevy 4
5 20 Tony Stewart Chevy 5
6 99 Carl Edwards Ford 6
7 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevy 7
8 5 Kyle Busch Chevy 8
9 29 Kevin Harvick Chevy 9
10 01 Regan Smith Chevy 10
11 07 Clint Bowyer Chevy 11
12 1 Martin Truex Jr. Chevy 12
13 2 Kurt Busch Dodge 13
14 8 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevy 14
15 12 Ryan Newman Dodge 15
16 16 Greg Biffle Ford 16
17 26 Jamie McMurray Ford 17
18 42 Juan Pablo Montoya # Dodge 18
19 25 Casey Mears Chevy 19
20 43 Bobby Labonte Dodge 20
21 18 J.J. Yeley Chevy 21
22 6 David Ragan # Ford 22
23 19 Elliott Sadler Dodge 23
24 41 Reed Sorenson Dodge 24
25 40 David Stremme Dodge 25
26 96 Ron Fellows Chevy 26
27 88 Ricky Rudd Ford 27
28 9 Kasey Kahne Dodge 28
29 7 Robby Gordon Ford 29
30 38 David Gilliland Ford 30
31 15 Paul Menard # Chevy 31
32 66 Jeff Green Chevy 32
33 45 Kyle Petty Dodge 33
34 70 Johnny Sauter Chevy 34
35 22 Dave Blaney Toyota 35
36 83 Brian Vickers Toyota 38/2006 winner
37 44 Dale Jarrett Toyota 40/past champ 1999
38 55 Terry Labonte Toyota 45/past champ 1996
39 21 Bill Elliott Ford 36/past champ 1988
40 10 Patrick Carpentier Dodge 36/21 attempts
41 00 P.J. Jones Toyota 39/21
45 36 Jeremy Mayfield Toyota 42/17
43 78 Kenny Wallace Chevy 43/21
DNQ 49 Klaus Graf Dodge 44/21
DNQ 84 AJ Allmendinger # Toyota 46/21
DNQ 37 Brian Simo Dodge 47/21
DNQ 4 Ward Burton Chevy 41/20
DNQ 60 Boris Said Ford 48/4
DNQ 77 Marcos Ambrose Ford none
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What’s wrong Nascar, afraid of a wittle rain?
That sucks for Ambrose. I was looking forward to seeing him race. :\
that is the stupidest thing nascar has sone since last week i mean are they just getting dumber and dumber . they have RAIN TIRES, there ment to be run in the RAIN. like come on RAIN, so RAIN TIRES
They only did this so Gordo would get the poll. Makes for good press and LOUSEY luck for the rest that didn’t get a chance to qualify.
just shutup to the guy above me
i agree wat boris said had said about nascar and their stupid qualifying format
And we can try to qualify on Sat? That is a typical assine NASCAR decision.
Well is it raining today. Why not try to Qualify?? because it would toss Gordo off the poll…
It takes talent to qualify for all the races and to race in the rain.
It would be a better story if NASCAR qualified them in the rain. These cars ARE capable of that on this type of track.
its oveus that anonymouse is a gordon fan bc he keeps trying to say nascar did the right thing. if it takes so much talent then why could ur boy do it, bc he cant so he just had nascar put him there
NASCAR! is pathetic they should have qualified this morning or use the rain tires they did the testing for it years ago,other series race there when its raining why shoudnt nascar.
So, NASCAR HAS qualified on the saturday before the race when there is a rain-out on friday.. WHY NOT THIS TIME?!
Oh..I know..
Gooorrrrdonnn was going to start first…
Someone is sucking someone off behind the scenes. I’ve said it for a year now, and i’m sticking with it. Anyone agree?
Should have qualified on Saturday.
I could care less I just want to know why is the 01 starting in
the 10th position?? Unless it’s a typo..
Hey Andy , its called owners points. The )! has been driven by 2 different drivers , but the owner gets all the points no matter who the driver is.
01 01 01…thats better.