LONG POND - Last June, Kasey Kahne took the green flag to start the 160-lap Pocono 400. Seconds later, his No. 5 Chevrolet started to vibrate and a shot at a win quickly evaporated.

Any shot at victory was over. Kahne came back out and chalked up a 36th-place finish. Returning in August, he won at Pocono.Kahne has now gone 28 starts without a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory, dating back to his August win in Pocono. In 20 starts at Pocono, Kahne has two Coors Light Poles, two wins, five top fives and seven top 10s.Things didn't go too well as Kahne will start 27th on Sunday after finishing with a 177.908 in the first round of qualifying."I think there has been a touch of bad luck and then we just haven't put together full races," he said prior to qualifying at the Tricky Triangle on Friday. "We've had great practices over the last month, maybe a little more than that."We've been really good in practice; great at times during the race, but we haven't put together a full race. And when we have, it's been one and then we forget for the next three, and then come back for the fourth one and run pretty well. I think as far as speed goes and getting the car right, we'll be good Sunday at points. We just need to put the whole 400 miles together. If we do that, we'll have a shot to win."In an earlier interview Jimmie Johnson said everybody on the Hendrick Motorsports team wants all four cars in the chase."At Hendrick Motorsports, we all want to be in the Chase," noted Kahne. "What Jimmie is talking about is making sure the No. 5 is in. He's not going to give anything to me, but he's definitely going to be happy if we pulled it off and won a race. I feel good about racing at Pocono. We were really quick the first race last year and had an issue."The track is very similar. It's a little different in the tunnel without the curbing but you still go through there in a very similar way. You just don't have the curbing to avoid. So, I feel like we should have a good car by the time tomorrow is over. We were off in practice. We didn't hit on it right off the bat. This is a track where I've run well in the past and with Hendrick race cars and engines it makes it a lot easier."Kahne feels that the new Chase format has eased the pain of the up and down year he's had."I look at it as we need to score as many points as we can each week," he said. "Our stretch of tracks that we run really well at started about three weeks ago. It goes for another month, so hopefully we can hit on something over this little span that we have."We just have to do the best we can and hopefully as a group we figure it out and can start putting full races together. If we can do that we will be in a good spot in a hurry because of the points system and the way that it is now. Definitely not out until Richmond. I guess that's when you would be out. You have a much better shot this way to make the Chase even if you are not running very well through the first half of the year."