Green shatters record, snares MBNA 200 pole

DOVER, Del. (AP) -- David Green drove an untested car Friday to a NASCAR Busch series qualifying record for Dover International Speedway, winning his first pole of the season.
Green hustled his Chevrolet around The Monster Mile at 157.916 mph. That easily surpassed Joe Nemechek's year-old Busch record of 156.747 on the high-banked concrete oval.
The pole run was the 22nd for Green, the 1994 series champion. He'll seek his ninth career victory today in the MBNA 200.
"We brought a brand new Monte Carlo here for the first time," he said. "The car had not been on a track until 9 o'clock this morning."
He knocked Brewco Motorsports teammate Johnny Sauter off the pole.
"When I saw Johnny go to the top two cars ahead of me, I knew I had to dig," Green said. "I just wanted to make it an all-Brewco front row."
The team began the season with Pontiacs, which no longer race on the NASCAR circuit. Both Green and Sauter considered that a setback.
"Today shows that we're making progress," Green said. "If we could have snapped our fingers during the off-season we would have done it."
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