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Today at 3:30 p.m. ET on Fox the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Atlanta will get underway with Daytona 500 winner Joey Logano sitting atop the pole. Race fans can live stream the action for free by clicking this link.

Logano proved last season that he has mastered the new qualifying format, but many other Cup drivers still have big problems with it. Jeff Gordon, who last week won the pole for the Daytona 500 and had no issues was more vocal this week.

"We were excited about qualifying today," Gordon said. "I felt like we had a shot at being up front. This is just absolutely ridiculous."

Gordon will start 35^th out of 43 drivers, and wasn't able to post a time because of technical issues that delayed 13 teams from getting on the track in the initial 15-minute window. Only 34 teams posted times with 36 slots available on speed, so any driver able to post a time automatically qualified.

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Director Richard Buck said some of the drivers should accept responsibility for the delays though.

"Their job is to push it to that very limit," Buck said. "Our job is to treat everybody fairly and give everybody an opportunity to come through that inspection room. But their responsibility is to come through there right but to the limit. I think that's what you saw today, was everybody pushing the limits."

Gordon wasn't having it, however. One of NASCAR's greatest posterboys fired back about these holdups that cost him good position.

"They [at NASCAR] should have recognized they had an issue," Gordon said. "When you have this many teams that are having issues going through [inspection], there's something wrong. There's something wrong with their system or there's something wrong with the amount of time they allot to get through.

"There is no way this many good cars, talented people, that they can't figure out how to get these cars through inspection. Yeah, we're pushing limits, but there's something wrong here. I'm embarrassed for our series right now that this just happened."

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