NASCAR KANSAS: Qualifying - Name Driver DQ'd!! *SPOILER*

Less than an hour after Juan Pablo Montoya celebrated his first NASCAR Sprint Cup pole, it was taken away from him because of a technical violation.

NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston said Montoya's fast lap was disqualified because a postqualifying inspection discovered his rear shock absorbers exceeded the maximum gas pressure allowed.

That moved two-time reigning Cup champion Jimmie Johnson up to the pole, with Montoya's No. 42 Chip Ganassi Racing Dodge moved to 42nd in the 43-car field for Sunday's race at Kansas Speedway.

It was a blow to Montoya, 24th in the season points and struggling most of the year to be competitive.

Neither Montoya nor the Ganassi team had any immediate comment.

Before NASCAR's announcement, a delighted Montoya said, "It's huge. There's times where it's getting darker and cooling down and you run at the end and all of a sudden you pick up a half a second and you're up there. But we were in the middle of the pack and the track didn't really change that much. We were genuinely fast."

But, with his lap of 172.150 mph disallowed, Johnson's 172.007 gave him his fifth pole of the season and 18th of his career.