Motorsports: Reutimann wins 1st race, then pole

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DOVER, Del. — David Reutimann played the Sprint Cup waiting game and again came out on top.

Reutimann ran a lap of 156.794 mph on Friday and captured the pole at Dover International Speedway, four days after he won his first career Cup race.

The victory in the Coca-Cola 600 came after three rain delays at Lowe's Motor Speedway. Reutimann then went out 11th on Friday and watched other drivers take a shot on the concrete track at trying to knock him off the pole.

Points leader Jeff Gordon challenged until the No. 24 got loose and slammed into the wall. He'll use his backup car for Sunday's race and start 42nd.

Once that threat was gone, Reutimann's second pole of the season was all his.

"I'm kind of a nervous person anyway, so waiting around to see if we won the race and then waiting around to see everybody have a shot at us became nerve-racking over time," he said.

Kasey Kahne was second and Juan Pablo Montoya qualified third. Reed Sorenson and Greg Biffle round out the top five.

• MAYFIELD COUNTERS, at Charlotte, N.C. — Suspended NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield must wait until next week for a judge to rule whether his suspension for a failed drug test should be overturned.

Mayfield filed a lawsuit challenging the indefinite suspension, saying NASCAR did not follow its drug-testing policies and left the driver with no way to prove his innocence.

• TRUCKS PPD., at Dover, Del. — The trucks race scheduled at Dover International Speedway was postponed because of rain.

Friday's race was washed out after about 40 minutes. It was rescheduled for today after the Nationwide Series race. Ron Hornaday Jr. won the pole in qualifying.

• IRL, at West Allis, Wis. — Tony Kanaan is expected to drive at the Milwaukee Mile despite bumps and bruises he received in a hard crash at the Indianapolis 500.

Andretti Green Racing made the announcement on Friday ahead of the race on Sunday.

Kanaan's rear suspension broke near the halfway point of Sunday's race, sending his car bouncing off the wall twice at over 180 mph. The crash was the latest in a series of hard-luck incidents at Indy for Kanaan, who also lost the series points lead.

• NHRA, at Topeka, Kan. — Ashley Force Hood held off her father, John Force, to claim the provisional No. 1 spot in Funny Car in the O'Reilly NHRA Summer Nationals at Heartland Park Topeka.

Antron Brown (Top Fuel) and Mike Edwards (Pro Stock) also took the provisional top spots in their categories at the ninth of 24 events on the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series.