page_title: 2015 Duck Commander 500
section_title: Qualifying
hierarchical_section_title: 2015 Duck Commander 500 / Qualifying
caption_attribution_description: NASCAR driver w:Kurt Busch during 2014 Aaron's 499 This file was uploaded with Commonist.
context_page_description: The 2015 Duck Commander 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on April 11, 2015 at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. Contested over 334 laps on the 1.5 mi quad-oval track, it was the seventh race of the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Jimmie Johnson won the race, his second win of the season and first in the Texas spring race, while Kevin Harvick finished second and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. finished third. Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski rounded out the top five.
  Kurt Busch won the pole and led 45 laps on his way to a 14th-place finish. Johnson led a race high of 128 laps, with 29 lead changes among nine different drivers, as well as eight caution flag periods for 40 laps.
  This was the 72nd career victory for Johnson, his fifth at the track and the seventh for Hendrick Motorsports. This win moved Johnson up to sixth in the points standings, while Harvick left Texas with a 26-point lead over Logano. Chevrolet increased their lead in the manufacturers' championship to 19 points over Ford.
  The Duck Commander 500 was by Fox Sports on the broadcast Fox network for the American television audience.
context_section_description: Kurt Busch won the pole with a time of 27.857 and a speed of 193.847 mph (311.967 km/h). After winning the pole, Busch thanked his entire team for the good result, stating that "everyone chipped in". Busch also stated that his second pole of the 2015 season felt good, and that he was looking "to dial it in and get that long-run speed out of the car". Championship leader and team-mate Kevin Harvick joined Busch on the front row, having been out-qualified by 0.018 seconds. Harvick felt that his team "stuck to our plan" and that "everything worked out good". In third place was Team Penske's Brad Keselowski, who stated that he was "being first in class", behind the cars of Busch and Harvick in the grid order. He also stated that "it never helps to have extra runs on the tires, but we made the most of it".
  Keselowski's Penske team-mate Joey Logano qualified sixth, believing that his car was more suited to the race and that he "kind of finished as expected for qualifying". Logano also mentioned that his crew chief Todd Gordon had told him that he won from 10th last year, so that he was "improving". Dale Earnhardt, Jr. failed to make it out of the first part of the qualifying session, and like Logano, he felt that his car would perform better in the race than in qualifying. In order to improve the car, Earnhardt stated that he and his team "will have to go home and work on it". With 45 entrants, Jeb Burton and Brendan Gaughan both failed to qualify.
caption: Kurt Busch, seen here in 2012 at Road America, won the pole for the race.
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