Just reading that Nelson Piquet, Jr. will start on the pole for the 36 truck field at Rockingham Sunday after a qualifying lap of 144.387 mph. 5 trucks will go home.
Here's the link to the lineup:
http://www.nascar.com/races/truck/2012/3/data/lineup.html
The pole speed is about 12 mph slower than the 156 mph+ Cup pole at Rockingham by Ryan Newman in 2004 - the track's last NASCAR event.
It's considerably faster than Paul Goldsmith's time of 116.684 mph for my first Rockingham race in 1966!
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updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:04:08PM