First things first for Newman at Atlanta

Ryan Newman, winner of the Daytona 500, has always qualfied well at Atlanta Motor Speedway. For once, he would like to finish well.
Newman has won seven poles at Atlanta, site of Sunday NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, and has started first in six straight Cup races at Atlanta.
But his best finish has been fifth. That came in 2004.
"My qualifying record hasn’t transferred to my racing record, and I’m not sure why," said Newman, driver of the No. 12 Dodge for Penske Racing. "We have some top 10s, but we’ve also had some not so great runs there. I hope we learned a lot from our test there last fall that will help us out this weekend. Our Alltel team wants top fives and top 10s each weekend, so that’s our goal.”
Newman is second in the Sprint Cup Series standings. His team is bringing a new car to Atlanta, its most recent track time coming during a test at Lowe's Motor Speedway in North Carolina last year.
“Our first goal is that we would like to continue Ryan’s history of qualifying success at Atlanta," said Newman's crew chief Roy McCauley. "Just because Ryan has a solid history at the track in qualifying, it doesn’t put more pressure on us. We want to qualify well so that we can pick a good pit, which benefits the entire team and therefore benefits Ryan during the race. Our goal is to do as good as we can as a team. We know Ryan’s qualifying history at the track and we know that we have the capability of giving him a car that can qualify on the pole.”