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The Gatorade Duel at Daytona start at 2pm/Eastern on Thursday and determine the starting spots for Sunday’s Daytona 500, and some who still need to qualify their way in. Here’s how they’ll lineup…

Duel #1 Duel #2
1 1 Martin Truex Jr
2 21 * Bill Elliott
3 48 Jimmie Johnson
4 8 Aric Almirola
5 24 Jeff Gordon
6 14 * Tony Stewart
7 98 Paul Menard
8 16 Greg Biffle
9 87 * Joe Nemechek
10 20 Joey Logano
11 17 Matt Kenseth
12 26 Jamie McMurray
13 6 David Ragan
14 47 Marcos Ambrose
15 36 * Scott Riggs
16 55 Michael Waltrip
17 34 John Andretti
18 09 * Brad Keselowski
19 9 Kasey Kahne
20 7 Robby Gordon
21 07 Casey Mears
22 2 Kurt Busch
23 77 Sam Hornish Jr
24 27 * Kirk Shelmerdine
25 37 * Tony Raines
26 66 * Terry Labonte
27 23 * Mike Skinner
28 46 * Carl Long		 1 5 Mark Martin
2 39 Ryan Newman
3 42 Juan Pablo Montoya
4 28 * Travis Kvapil
5 96 Bobby Labonte
6 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr
7 78 * Regan Smith
8 18 Kyle Busch
9 82 Scott Speed
10 00 David Reutimann
11 08 * Boris Said
12 33 Clint Bowyer
13 11 Denny Hamlin
14 99 Carl Edwards
15 43 Reed Sorenson
16 19 Elliott Sadler
17 31 Jeff Burton
18 83 Brian Vickers
19 44 * AJ Allmendinger
20 12 David Stremme
21 41 * Jeremy Mayfield
22 71 * Mike Wallace
23 73 * Mike Garvey
24 29 Kevin Harvick
25 75 * Derrike Cope
26 51 * Kelly Bires
27 64 * Geoff Bodine
28 57 * Norm Benning

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Martin Truex Jr.

The front row is set for next weeks Daytona 500. Locked in are Mark Martin on the outside pole, and Martin Truex Jr. is the pole sitter, driving the #1 Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet. Everyone else needs to either qualify their way in, or set their starting spots on Thursday in the Gatorade Duels at Daytona.

Here’s how the top 10 stack up…

1 Martin Truex Jr.
2 Mark Martin
3 Ryan Newman
4 Juan Pablo Montoya
5 Bill Elliott
6 Jimmie johnson
7 Aric Almirola
8 Travis Kvapil
9 Jeff Gordon
10 Tony Stewart

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Tony Stewart's #14It took Tony Stewart just 13 laps to lead for the first time as a driver/owner in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

Stewart, driver of the No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala SS for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR), led laps 13-16 en route to a solid third-place finish in Saturday night’s Budweiser Shootout at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway.

The Budweiser Shootout is an exhibition race featuring the top-six cars from each of the four manufacturers – Chevrolet, Ford, Dodge and Toyota – along with a wild card entry from each manufacturer that goes to a past champion. If no past champion, the manufacturer’s seventh-highest placing car in 2008 car owner points earns a starting berth. This year’s field included an event-record 28 drivers, with Stewart nailing down his starting spot thanks to his 2005 Sprint Cup championship.

“I’ll take that for a debut night,” said Stewart, a three-time winner of the non-point Budweiser Shootout. “It wasn’t the prettiest third-place, but we were in the right spot at the right time. We know what we need to work on for the Daytona 500, and now we have a good start on it.”

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