Michael McDowell pulled a big surprise by delivering Spire Motorsports's first pole position for today's Pennzoil 400 while his teammates Carson Hocevar and Justin Haley only qualified 25th and 33rd.

Michael McDowell has a fast car on a 1.5-mile NASCAR race track. The Spire Motorsports driver, who is 15th in the Cup Series standings entering Sunday’s race at Las Vegas, won the pole position to ...