Daniel Hemric leads final Cup practice at Kansas

Hemric’s average lap speed of 177.830 mph was set early in the 55-minute session and never topped. Kevin Harvick ended up second (177.096 mph) and Kurt Busch was third (177.072 mph).

Ryan Blaney was fourth and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. completed the top-five.

In Hemric’s only previous NASCAR Cup Series start at Kansas in the spring, he started 17th and finished 18th.

Rounding out the top-10 single-lap speeds were Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr., Daniel Suraez and Aric Almirola.

Qualifying for Sunday’s race is 12:35 p.m. ET.

Kyle Busch had the fastest average lap speed among all the drivers that completed at least 10 consecutive laps (176.154 mph). He was following in that category by Blaney, Martin Truex Jr., Denny Hamlin and Harvick.

Cla	#	Driver		Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	Mph
1	8	Daniel Hemric		Chevrolet	37	30.366			177.830
2	4	Kevin Harvick		Ford	48	30.492	00.126	00.126	177.096
3	1	Kurt Busch		Chevrolet	32	30.496	00.130	00.004	177.072
4	2	Brad Keselowski		Ford	48	30.527	00.161	00.031	176.893
5	12	Ryan Blaney		Ford	45	30.556	00.190	00.029	176.725
6	17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.		Ford	28	30.563	00.197	00.007	176.684
7	18	Kyle Busch		Toyota	58	30.575	00.209	00.012	176.615
8	19	Martin Truex Jr.		Toyota	38	30.583	00.217	00.008	176.569
9	41	Daniel Suarez		Ford	63	30.608	00.242	00.025	176.424
10	10	Aric Almirola		Ford	47	30.617	00.251	00.009	176.373
11	21	Paul Menard		Ford	42	30.618	00.252	00.001	176.367
12	11	Denny Hamlin		Toyota	46	30.622	00.256	00.004	176.344
13	20	Erik Jones		Toyota	45	30.657	00.291	00.035	176.142
14	6	Ryan Newman		Ford	44	30.685	00.319	00.028	175.982
15	88	Alex Bowman		Chevrolet	35	30.690	00.324	00.005	175.953
16	22	Joey Logano		Ford	62	30.700	00.334	00.010	175.896
17	3	Austin Dillon		Chevrolet	49	30.709	00.343	00.009	175.844
18	34	Michael McDowell		Ford	26	30.731	00.365	00.022	175.718
19	14	Clint Bowyer		Ford	43	30.741	00.375	00.010	175.661
20	9	Chase Elliott		Chevrolet	48	30.772	00.406	00.031	175.484
21	48	Jimmie Johnson		Chevrolet	29	30.816	00.450	00.044	175.234
22	24	William Byron		Chevrolet	59	30.829	00.463	00.013	175.160
23	38	David Ragan		Ford	28	30.840	00.474	00.011	175.097
24	36	Matt Tifft		Ford	33	30.846	00.480	00.006	175.063
25	43	Darrell Wallace Jr.		Chevrolet	43	30.878	00.512	00.032	174.882
26	42	Kyle Larson		Chevrolet	25	30.881	00.515	00.003	174.865
27	37	Chris Buescher		Chevrolet	35	30.905	00.539	00.024	174.729
28	95	Matt DiBenedetto		Toyota	53	30.919	00.553	00.014	174.650
29	13	Ty Dillon		Chevrolet	42	30.960	00.594	00.041	174.419
30	47	Ryan Preece		Chevrolet	32	31.105	00.739	00.145	173.606
31	96	Parker Kligerman		Toyota	30	31.251	00.885	00.146	172.794
32	32	Corey Lajoie		Ford	21	31.343	00.977	00.092	172.287
33	51	J.J. Yeley		Ford	12	31.371	01.005	00.028	172.133
34	15	Ross Chastain		Chevrolet	20	31.654	01.288	00.283	170.595
35	52	Garrett Smithley		Ford	7	32.420	02.054	00.766	166.564
36	53	Josh Bilicki		Ford	16	32.508	02.142	00.088	166.113
37	77	Timmy Hill		Chevrolet	9	33.214	02.848	00.706	162.582
38	66	Joey Gase		Toyota	6	33.238	02.872	00.024	162.465