Johnson On Kansas Cup Pole
Jimmie Johnson is on the pole for Sunday's LifeLock 400 at Kansas Speedway. Johnson turned a lap of 30.846 seconds around the 1.5-mile track for a speed of 175.063 mph. It was Johnson's third pole in the past four races. Ryan Newman will join Johnson on the outside of the front row, he turned a quick lap of 30.876 seconds translating to a speed of 174.893 mph. Matt Kenseth will roll off in the third spot and Scott Riggs turned in a great lap and will start fourth. Jeff Gordon is fifth on the field followed by Denny Hamlin, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Greg Biffle, Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. to round out the top ten. -- Four drivers failed to qualify: Rookie A.J. Allmendinger, Ward Burton, Brian Vickers and Jon Wood.
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Villeneuve In Talladega Cup Debut?
Jacques Villeneuve is expected to make his NASCAR Nextel Cup debut at Talladega Superspeedway next weekend in the No. 27 Bill Davis Racing Toyota Camry. The former Formula 1 and CART champ, will be one of three BDR entries in the UAW-Ford 500 on October 7. Slugger Labbe, who received his release from Ginn Racing last month, will serve as Villeneuve's crew chief. The race marks two milestones — the coming-out party for Villeneuve in the Cup, and the first Car of Tomorrow race on the 2.66-mile speedway (the biggest track to date for a COT race). Villeneuve ran his first CTS race last Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

The 36-year-old native St. Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, qualified seventh and finished 21st. The "rookie" participated in a successful test with Cup regulars on Sept. 10-11 at Talladega. By running a significant number of laps competitively in the draft with Cup regulars along with his performance at Vegas, NASCAR deemed that Villeneuve was ready to roll next weekend. BDR is also expected to field Villeneuve in both the ARCA and Craftsman Truck races. BDR Rookie Michael Annett will also compete in the ARCA event on Friday.(foxsports.com)

Goodyear Tire Notes
This is the second straight weekend that teams in these two NASCAR series have run this specific combination of left-and right-side tires -- in addition to Kansas and Dover, these teams have run this combination at California and Michigan this season -- Busch Series teams have also run this tire set-up at Kentucky -- this left-side code (D-4078) has also been run by these teams with a different right-side code at both Texas and Chicagoland in 2007 -- as on all NASCAR ovals greater than one mile in length, teams are required to run inner liners in all four tire positions at Kansas -- air pressure in those inner liners should be 12-25 psi greater than that of the outer tire.