Musgrave Earns Pole Position

Sat., Sept. 28, 1996

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A 2-1/2-hour rain delay didn’t faze Ted Musgrave or Jeff Gordon. In fact, the cooler temperatures after the interruption probably helped them grab the front-row qualifying spots for Sunday’s North Wilkesboro Speedway Winston Cup swan song, the Tyson Holly Farms 400.

Musgrave came up with his first pole since this race last year and the fifth of his career, getting around the historic .625-mile oval at 118.054 mph to take the top qualifying spot for the final Winston Cup race on the track that ran its first NASCAR race in the sanctioning body’s inaugural year of 1949.

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