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By: Toby Christie – Follow on Twitter @Tobalical

Kurt Busch came just shy of setting a new track record at Texas Motor Speedway, but it still looked like the pole for the NRA 500 would be a nice consolation prize — but then his younger brother Kyle Busch knocked him off the provisional pole late in the session.

Kyle Busch did surpass the previous track record — set by Brian Vickers in 2006 — with a lap of 196.299 mph, Busch was the 42nd of 45 drivers to take a qualifying lap, and in setting the track record he also secured his 12th career pole position, and second of 2013. Kurt Busch would hang onto the second position, to make it an all Busch-Brother front-row.

For Kyle Busch, he’s just ready for Saturday night’s race, “It felt that good. Sometimes you feel that good and it’s not very fast. I’ll tell you what, these guys here and this whole JGR team, everybody back at the shop, all the guys and girls that work so hard there to give us really great race cars to come to the race track with. We didn’t unload the best, but Dave (Rogers, crew chief) and the guys — they really used the whole tool box today and worked really hard getting us a good piece for the race and for qualifying. This Interstate Batteries Camry is flying — I’m looking forward to tomorrow night.”

The elder Busch — Kurt — thinks as long as his team can avoid mechanical gremlins, that they have turned the corner into a contender.

”I think we have A-Z in front of us as far as parts, people, just the knowledge and the know-how.  We just like last week got bit by a brake issue and a fuel pump issue.  Those are things that if we can get that weeded out that will help us,” Busch said.

Aric Almirola put The King’s famous No. 43 third on the grid, his teammate Marcos Ambrose will start fourth, and Martin Truex Jr. will round out your top-five starters Saturday night.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. leads a Hendrick charge from the sixth position followed by Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon in seventh and eighth. Carl Edwards and Juan Montoya also landed top-ten starting spots.