NASCAR: Miss Sprint Cup fired for nude photos; Kyle Busch to start on pole for Kentucky Cup race

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A South Carolina woman serving as a NASCAR Miss Sprint Cup has been let go after nude pictures of her appeared online.

Paige Duke told The Charlotte Observer the pictures were taken when she was a freshman at Clemson University and were only meant for her boyfriend at the time.

But the 24-year-old veterinary technician says there was a morals clause in the contract she signed to be Miss Sprint Cup, so she is not surprised she was fired from what she said was the perfect job.

Duke says her attorneys worked to remove the images from a website and are trying to figure out how they were released in the first place.

Duke says she hopes girls learn the lesson that private pictures don’t always stay private.

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KYLE BUSCH TO START ON POLE FOR KENTUCKY CUP RACE

Kyle Busch will be on the pole for the inaugural NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kentucky Speedway, grabbing the top spot after rain washed out qualifying and the starting order was based on practice times.

Juan Pablo Montoya will start second in Saturday night’s 400-mile race and Kurt Busch will be third.

Nearly half of the 48 cars attempting to make the 43-car field got in a qualifying run before a thunderstorm resulted in qualifying to be based on the best laps during Friday’s practice session.

The storm kept Kentucky native Michael Waltrip from making the field. He was fourth fastest of the 22 cars that went through qualifying, but those numbers were wiped out and he will miss the race because his top practice speed wasn’t among the 43 fastest.