DOVER, Del., May 30 (UPI) -- Ryan Newman won the pole Friday and veteran teammate Rusty Wallace gave Penske Racing a 1-2 start for Sunday's NASCAR MBNA Armed Forces Family 400 at Dover International Speedway.
Newman captured his fourth pole of the year and 11th career with a speed of 158.716 miles per hour in a Dodge Intrepid. He drove around the one-mile concrete track in 22.682 seconds.
Wallace, who set the track record of 159.964 mph in 1999, clocked in at 22.883 to take the outside spot.
Wallace was dominant at Dover in the mid-1990s, including a run of three straight victories beginning in the fall of 1993. He has earned three poles and started in the first five in six of the last eight visits to Dover.
Jeremy Mayfield made it a Dodge sweep of the top three positions. Points leader Matt Kenseth was fourth in a Ford Taurus and defending race winner Jimmie Johnson rounded out the top five in a Chevrolet Monte Carlo.
