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Lap-by-Lap: Kansas
By NASCAR.COM
April 22, 2012

http://www.nascar.com/lap-by-lap/120422/kanslbl/index.html

1:02 p.m. ET — Three A-10s from the 303rd flight squadron at Whiteman Air Force Base do the fly-over. C’mon. Who do you talk to for a hop in one of those bad boys?

1:01 p.m. ET — Jeremy Vitt is singing the national anthem.

1 p.m. ET — Cole Cochran, of Kansas City Alliance Raceway Ministries, is giving the invocation.

12:55 p.m. ET — Five minutes to the start of the invocation and national anthem.

12:11 p.m. ET — The weather forecast calls for partly cloudy conditions today in Kansas City. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it’s supposed to be windy, with gusts of as much as 35 mph.

8:37 a.m. ET — A.J. Allmendinger is on the pole for the STP 400 after turning in a lap of 175.993 mph during qualifying. It’s the second pole of his career. Kevin Harvick took second, followed by Joey Logano, Denny Hamlin and Mark Martiin in the top five. Martin Truex Jr., Dale Earnhardt Jr., Clint Bowyer, Kasey Kahne and Sam Hornish Jr. were sixth through 10th.

Tim Andrews, Jeff Green and Tony Raines failed to qualify for the race.