No. 1 Kyle Busch

Kyle Busch said he didn't think his car was pole material before qualifying for the Coca-Cola 600.
Turns out it was. He will start Sunday's Coca-Cola 600 from the pole, as if the top driver in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standings needs any more help these days.
Then again, he started from the pole in last weekend's All-Star race at Lowe's, and that didn't end so well for Busch. He blew an engine, same as his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin, and did not finish the All-Star race.
It's been one of the few races Busch has not seen to the end this year, not in Cup, the Nationwide Series or the Craftsman Truck Series.
Still, Busch said his team was planning on using the engine that blew in the All-Star race in the Coca-Cola 600.
"That's what the plan was," said Busch, driver of the No. 18 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. "Every time they put that thing on the Spin Tron or the Dyno (Dynamometer) or anything back at the shop, they always run about 1,200 to 1,500 miles on it. So if it made the All-Star race then it was going in for the 600. Unfortunately it didn't make it and we found some problems in what it was. The guys are back at the shop trying to fix those and come up with some solutions and try to keep the horsepower that we gained with that engine. We didn't bring it here this weekend. We're going back to what we've had all year and we'll hopefully have a good enough car that we can overcome what the motor value was last weekend."
Hamlin's team said something a little different than that, so it looks like Joe Gibbs Racing's drivers might want to get their stories straight before talking to reporters.