By: Toby Christie – Follow on Twitter @Tobalical

Martin Truex Jr. has absolutely been on fire so far in 2012, as has been the case with the whole Michael Waltrip Racing team. Those trends continued Friday during Coors Light Pole qualifying for Saturday night’s Samsung Mobile 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.

Truex posted a lap of 190.369 mph, which was just enough to edge out Roush-Fenway teammates Matt Kenseth and Greg Biffle for the pole. This marks the seventh pole of Truex’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career, and it’s his second pole at Texas Motor Speedway.

Matt Kenseth was just saddened by being so close to the pole.

“That was good. I just would feel better if I got beat by more I guess. I felt like I got it all out of there and we just missed it a little bit. Our car has a lot of speed we just don’t have it driving exactly right yet. I had a couple different issues. A little bit of everything. It was a little too loose, but I had some other problems too.”

Kenseth who has struggled through his career in qualifying now already has two top-10 starting positions in 2012.

Greg Biffle says he gave his car all he could in his run, “That was all she had in her. It was just a hair too loose. I wasn’t sure what it was going to be like down there in three and four with all the wind. I backed out of the throttle when it got a little yawed out but I shouldn’t have. The car was under me and I was being a little protective. We have a great car for tomorrow night so I am pretty excited about that.”

Biffle has more reason to be excited, this is the 10th time in his career that he has started inside the top-10 at Texas Motor Speedway.

Truex’s teammate Mark Martin was fourth and Kasey Kahne rounded out the top-five qualifiers.

The three drivers who will go home without racing are David Stremme, Joe Nemechek and Stacy Compton.

Here is the starting lineup for the Samsung Mobile 500

1. 56-Martin Truex Jr.
2.17-Matt Kenseth
3.16-Greg Biffle
4.55-Mark Martin
5. 5-Kasey Kahne
6.39-Ryan Newman
7. 9-Marcos Ambrose
8. 2-Brad Keselowski
9. 1-Jamie McMurray
10. 48-Jimmie Johnson
11. 27-Paul Menard
12. 22-AJ Allmendinger
13. 11-Denny Hamlin
14. 20-Joey Logano
15. 29-Kevin Harvick
16. 88-Dale Earnhardt Jr.
17. 18-Kyle Busch
18. 15-Clint Bowyer
19. 21-Trevor Bayne
20. 99-Carl Edwards
21. 34-David Ragan
22. 13-Casey Mears
23. 43-Aric Almirola
24. 31-Jeff Burton
25. 42-Juan Montoya
26. 78-Regan Smith
27. 51-Kurt Busch
28. 83-Landon Cassill
29. 14-Tony Stewart
30. 47-Bobby Labonte
31. 10-David Reutimann
32. 26-Josh Wise
33. 98-Michael McDowell
34. 24-Jeff Gordon
35. 38-David Gilliland
36. 49-JJ Yeley
37. 93-Travis Kvapil
38. 95-Scott Speed
39. 32-Reed Sorenson
40. 23-Scott Riggs
41. 19-Mike Bliss
42. 36-Dave Blaney
43. 33-Tony Raines

– Toby Christie is the lead Motorsports writer for Sicknissified.com, and he can be reached via twitter or email. Tweet him @Tobalical or email him at tobalical@sicknissified.com. You can also find his work at TheFinalLap.com this weekend.