Fort Worth, Texas ? Bill Elliott blew away the Texas Motor Speedway qualifying record as the fastest of a dozen Winston Cup drivers who broke the 2-year-old mark in qualifying Friday for the Samsung/Radio Shack 500.

Elliott, the 42nd of 44 drivers to take to the recently repaved 112-mile oval, turned a lap of 194.224 mph, considerably faster than the record of 192.137 set by Terry Labonte.

“That was fast enough for me,” said Elliott, who shut off the engine in his Evernham Motorsports Dodge after one of two allowable qualifying laps. “I was done after the first lap.”

It also was good enough to relegate a disappointed Elliott Sadler to the outside of the front row. Sadler, whose best previous starting position was fourth, had held the top spot for more than an hour after turning a lap of 193.071 in a Ford.

“That was tough,” said Sadler, who was hoping for his first career pole. “Everybody knows the Wood Brothers haven’t won a pole since 1984.”

Sadler said Elliott, who earned his second pole of the season and the 53rd of his career, was helped by long delays after crashes by Robby Gordon and Frank Kimmel. Elliott’s record run came late in the afternoon, with the warm temperatures of the day starting to give way to the cool of the evening.

“When the 26 (Kimmel) wrecked, I looked at (car owner) Eddie (Wood) and said, ‘It’s all over now.’ When the sun goes down, it gets a lot cooler and the cars get a lot faster,” Sadler said. “I can’t be too disappointed with it, though.”

Elliott didn’t disagree, saying he was hoping it would cool off.

“When we drew a late number, we knew that it could be a good thing,” he said.

Ricky Rudd’s Ford followed Sadler with a lap of 193.016, exactly the same as the fourth-place Chevrolet of Michael Waltrip.

Dale Jarrett, Rudd’s teammate, and the defending race champion, earned the fifth spot with a lap of 192.967, the same as sixth-place Stacy Compton.

The rest of the record breakers were Jeremy Mayfield at 192.726, Mark Martin at 192.658, Dale Earnhardt Jr. at 192.486, Ricky Craven at 192.438, Steve Park at 192.342 and Ken Schrader at 192.321.