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Brian Vickers made a big statement Friday afternoon at Michigan International Speedway.
The Red Bull Racing driver not only posted the fastest time in practice Friday afternoon, but also put his No. 83 Toyota on the pole in commanding fashion for Sunday's 3M Performance 400 at the track an hour west of Detroit.
Vickers' lap -- 188.536 mph -- was over three-tenths of a second faster than outside pole-sitter Jimmie Johnson. To put it into prospective, Bobby Labonte in 35th was only one second off of Vickers' speed.
The No. 83 team easily had a winning car during the June race at Michigan and led 44 laps in that effort. The race -- won by Dale Earnhardt Jr. -- ended in fuel mileage fashion, though Vickers still had a chance to win but NASCAR hampered his progress by putting him in the wrong restart position on the final green-white-checkered.
Had Vickers restarted a position higher, he might have been able to at the very least finish second, but instead wound up with a fourth-place finish. NASCAR apologized for the incident after the race and Vickers accepted it, but you've got to believe that he's still simmering over that call.
To round out the Top-5 starting positions, Elliott Sadler qualified his No. 19 Dodge third, Earnhardt Jr. was fourth, and Jeff Gordon -- coming off an absolutely horrible performance at Watkins Glen -- will start fifth. Point leader Kyle Busch lines up 11th.
Johnny Sauter failed to qualify in the No. 08 car.
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