(Sports Network) - Ryan Newman kicked off his busy week at Bristol Motor Speedway by winning the pole for Wednesday's O'Reilly 200 Camping World Truck Series race.

Newman lapped the .533-mile, high-banked track at 122.217 m.p.h. (15.7 seconds) for his first career truck pole in just his third start. He is also competing in today's NASCAR (web | news) Whelen Modified Tour event, before racing in Friday's Nationwide and Saturday's Sprint Cup races.

Mike Skinner qualified second, and Ron Hornaday Jr., the current points leader, was third. Colin Braun and Brian Scott rounded out the top-five.

The 51-year-old Hornaday will attempt to keep his winning streak alive at six races. Earlier this month at Nashville, Hornaday became the first driver to win five races in a row in one of NASCAR's national touring series since 1971. Richard Petty and Bobby Allison both did it in the Cup Series that year. Petty holds the NASCAR record with 10 straight Cup wins in 1967.

Kyle Busch will roll off sixth, followed by Aric Almirola, Timothy Peters, Rick Crawford and Jason White.

Tim Bainey Jr., Brandon Duchscherer and Duane Bischoff failed to qualify.

Today's race is scheduled to begin around 8:30 p.m. (et).





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