Tony Stewart, the subject of this week’s biggest rumors and stories, took his winning Nationwide Daytona car on to claim the pole for today’s NASCAR Nationwide Aaron’s 312.  Tony turned a lap time of 51.676 seconds at 185.308 mph to claim his sixth Nationwide career pole.  Earlier in the year, Tony sat on the pole at the Nationwide Series opener in Daytona which, as you know, he went on to win.

Tony has yet to take the checkered at Talladega in Nationwide or Sprint Cup so this could be his weekend.  After a week when some doubted Tony’s future with Gibbs, he shared his confidence in JGR, “If you look at the effort of Joe Gibbs Racing every week in the Nationwide Series, they’ve been the car to beat whether it’s the 18 car or the 20 car,” Stewart said. “As an organization, I’m really proud of those guys.”  “Every race this year, the Joe Gibbs Racing cars have been fast. It’s a good feeling when you know you have a fast car as soon as you get to the track.”

I wonder, if it gets down to the last lap, Tony is in the lead and his teammate Kyle Busch is in second, would Tony let Kyle have it to make his Four-fer complete?  Na, of course not!!!

Driver introductions start at 1:30PM and the race is scheduled to start at 2:00PM.

Here’s the full starting grid: