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Totally unrelated to Tony Stewart Racing but I was just looking at the qualification sheet for the Busch race at Texas and I’m shaking my head. Can someone explain this for me?

                                              Off Leader
PP  Car Driver             Time    Speed     Time   Speed
1    6  David Ragan #      28.263  191.063
5    9  Kasey Kahne        28.770  187.696   -0.507  -3.367
10  17  Matt Kenseth       28.888  186.929   -0.625  -4.134
15  15  Paul Menard        28.955  186.496   -0.692  -4.567
20  88  Shane Huffman      29.005  186.175   -0.742  -4.888
25   4  Regan Smith        29.145  185.280   -0.882  -5.783
30  21  Timothy Peters     29.428  183.499   -1.165  -7.564
35  28  Johnny Sauter      29.722  181.684   -1.459  -9.379
40  30  Stanton Barrett    30.189  178.873   -1.926 -12.190
43  05  Brett Rowe         30.780  175.439   -2.517 -15.624

The last guy in the field is over 15 MPH slower than the pole and another didn’t qualify. I don’t follow the Busch series but are the “regulars” i.e. not Cup guys really that bad?

No wonder the Cup regulars want to run there. They get to do what they love, race, and it’s an easy payday considering the quality of cars they are running against.

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