NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at TALLADEGA 2014 Watch FREE Live Stream Online & Listen: Live Coverage: STARTING GRID

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Today at 1:00 p.m. ET the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Talladega will get underway on Fox, in a high-profile race that can be live streamed for free by clicking this link. Sitting on the pole will be Brian Scott, who was just as surprised as anyone at his lofty perch.

"Who would have thought that, huh?" Scott said after his Richard Childress Racing team's qualifying strategy paid off. He and A.J. Allmendinger were the beneficiaries of a nice strategy to surge toward the finish near the end of the allotted time.

"It was just a great plan by RCR, getting all the RCR alliance cars working together," Allmendinger said. "We worked on that (in practice) and felt like we all had great speed. Ryan was the guinea pig for all of us and timed it right, and that last session, it was just basically who was going to wait the longest to go out there."

The runner-up, Paul Menard, said "The qualifying format, I think there are good tracks for it and bad tracks for it, and this is definitely a great track for it. We had a plan and we tried to stick to the plan as best we could. Ryan, we put the burden on him to decide when to go and where to go, and the rest of us held it in line. ECR top-six and RCR cars all up there is pretty exciting."

Winning the pole is a major opportunity for Scott, who finished respectably at the Daytona 500 and can establish his standing at one of the sport's fastest tracks. "I've got that dreaded yellow (rookie) stripe on the bumper, and that's going to make people run away from me like the plague," Scott said.

Joey Logano, NASCAR qualifier ace, had a streak of eight consecutive final round qualifiers. "It's not by a good car or not, it's just by strategy," Logano said. "We put a lot of work and effort into keeping that streak alive. It's unfortunate."

1          Brian Scott         Chevrolet                       198.290 mph

2          Paul Menard       Chevrolet                       197.888 mph

3          AJ Allmendinger Chevrolet                       197.704 mph

4          Casey Mears       Chevrolet                       197.370 mph

5          Austin Dillon     Chevrolet                       197.362 mph

6          Ryan Newman    Chevrolet                       197.297 mph

7          Danica Patrick     Chevrolet                       194.995 mph

8          Kevin Harvick     Chevrolet                       194.393 mph

9          Kurt Busch         Chevrolet                       193.619 mph

10         Carl Edwards       Ford                              193.615 mph

11         Jeff Gordon         Chevrolet                       193.486 mph

12         Tony Stewart      Chevrolet                       188.958 mph

13         Brad Keselowski  Ford                              194.963 mph

14         Michael McDowell          Ford                  194.959 mph

15         Aric Almirola     Ford                              194.911 mph

16         Joey Logano       Ford                              194.880 mph

17         Michael Annett   Chevrolet                       194.098 mph

18         Brian Vickers      Toyota                           194.035 mph

19         Kyle Busch         Toyota                           193.541 mph

20         Jimmie Johnson  Chevrolet                       193.478 mph

21         Matt Kenseth      Toyota                           193.458 mph

22         Reed Sorenson    Chevrolet                       190.890 mph

23         Trevor Bayne      Ford                              190.575 mph

24         Ryan Truex        Toyota                           197.913 mph

25         Ricky Stenhouse Jr.         Ford                  197.908 mph

26         Marcos Ambrose Ford                              197.835 mph

27         Clint Bowyer      Toyota               197.806 mph

28         Michael Waltrip  Toyota               197.806 mph

29         Kyle Larson        Chevrolet           197.770 mph

30         Dale Earnhardt Jr.Chevrolet           197.765 mph

31         Cole Whitt         Toyota               197.721 mph

32         Jamie McMurray Chevrolet           197.443 mph

33         Alex Bowman     Toyota               197.403 mph

34         Denny Hamlin    Toyota               197.378 mph

35         Greg Biffle         Ford                  197.244 mph

36         Josh Wise          Ford                  197.029 mph

37         Terry Labonte     Ford                  196.746 mph

38         Justin Allgaier    Chevrolet           196.230 mph

39         David Ragan       Ford                  195.732 mph

40         David Gilliland    Ford                  194.880 mph

41         Landon Cassill    Chevrolet           194.389 mph

42         Kasey Kahne       Chevrolet           N/A

43         Martin Truex Jr.  Chevrolet           N/A

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