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AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- Phoenix International Raceway is filled with bumps and cracks and has patches on top of patches trying to hold it together for one last race.

It may be falling apart, but one thing it has never lost is speed.

Carl Edwards had the fastest lap on one of the fastest days ever at Phoenix, setting the last in a slew of track records on Saturday during the final qualifying session before the surface undergoes a makeover.

"This track is great," Edwards said. "I talked to (track president Bryan) Sperber earlier and I think the question I asked him seems a lot of people have asked was: 'Why would you even mess with this?"

Raceway officials don't have a lot of choice with the track nearly crumbling.

It's at least going out with flourish.

 

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Filed under: A.J. Allmendinger, Carl Edwards, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Greg Biffle, Jamie McMurray, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Juan Pablo Montoya, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Sprint Cup, Scott Speed, NASCAR

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) -- Carl Edwards has won the pole for Sunday's Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen International.

Edwards turned a lap of 124.432 mph in 70.882 seconds on Saturday to easily outdistance Jamie McMurray's lap of 123.814 mph in 71.236. It's the first road course pole in Cup competition for Edwards and just a few ticks off Jeff Gordon's 2003 track record of 124.58 mph in 70.7979.

Juan Pablo Montoya will go off third, followed by AJ Allmendinger and Kurt Busch.

Five-time Watkins Glen winner Tony Stewart, Greg Biffle, Scott Speed, Jimmie Johnson and Kyle Busch round out the top 10.

Marcos Ambrose, who finished second to Stewart in last year's race, will start 11th. Gordon, a four-time Watkins Glen winner, qualified 16th and his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. was 41st.

 

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