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In one of those hard-to-believe stats, Jeff Gordon, the four-time NASCAR champion, had gone 47 races without a pole–the longest drought of his career.
Gordon took the top spot for Sunday’s Dover 400 with a lap of 156.162 m.p.h. Friday at Dover International Speedway, his first pole since Aug. 24, 2005, on the road course at Sonoma.
“It feels like my first pole ever,” Gordon said. “When it goes by for a while, you feel like you lost that magic touch or that combination that it took to get on poles.”
Gordon is fourth in the points standings heading into the second race of NASCAR’s 10-man Chase for the Nextel Cup championship. Joining Gordon on the front row will be Scott Riggs, who went 156.060 to take second.
