Practice report
NASCAR Cup Dover
11-time Dover winner Jimmie Johnson fastest in final practice
Jimmie Johnson is fast again at Dover (Del.) International Speedway and we all know what that means.
Jim Utter
Edited: May 4, 2019, 5:08 PM
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Johnson, who has 11 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series victories at Dover, led the way in Saturday’s final practice session as his average lap speed of 161.863 mph topped the leaderboard.
Johnson enters Sunday’s Gander RV 400 on a career-worst 69-race winless streak and coincidently his last victory came at Dover in June 2017.
“Over the years I feel like here, we’ve probably stayed in the game more than other tracks. We won here a couple of years ago, I feel like we were one of the best cars here last year, but had something weird break on the car before we took to the track for the race,” Johnson said.
“I feel like here, our cars have always performed well at Hendrick Motorsports with high-vertical loading and this track certainly has a lot of that. Martinsville seems like it’s slipped away from us a little bit, performance-wise, but at Dover, we seem to come back here and repeat each time.”
Martin Truex Jr. ended up second (161.718 mph) and Erik Jones was third (161.435 mph). Kyle Larson and Aric Almirola completed the top-five.
Rounding out the top-10 were Daniel Suarez, William Byron, Kurt Busch, Clint Bowyer and pole-winner Chase Elliott.
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Among the drivers who ran 10 consecutive laps, Larson was the fastest, followed by Jones, Truex, Kevin Harvick and Brad Keselowski.
The final 50-minute practice session was the only one of the day as heavy fog canceled Saturday’s morning session.
Larson's average speed for 10 consecutive laps was 159.747 mph if you want to throw in there
Cla # Driver Manufacturer Laps Time Gap Interval Mph 1 48 
Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 59 22.241 161.863 2 19 Martin Truex Jr. Toyota 66 22.261 0.020 0.020 161.718 3 20 Erik Jones Toyota 63 22.300 0.059 0.039 161.435 4 42 Kyle Larson Chevrolet 60 22.341 0.100 0.041 161.139 5 10 Aric Almirola Ford 39 22.373 0.132 0.032 160.908 6 41 
Daniel Suarez Ford 68 22.379 0.138 0.006 160.865 7 24 William Byron Chevrolet 71 22.384 0.143 0.005 160.829 8 1 Kurt Busch Chevrolet 42 22.443 0.202 0.059 160.406 9 14 Clint Bowyer Ford 69 22.458 0.217 0.015 160.299 10 9 Chase Elliott Chevrolet 64 22.471 0.230 0.013 160.206 11 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 58 22.478 0.237 0.007 160.157 12 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 62 22.505 0.264 0.027 159.964 13 12 Ryan Blaney Ford 52 22.522 0.281 0.017 159.844 14 4 Kevin Harvick Ford 60 22.530 0.289 0.008 159.787 15 2 Brad Keselowski Ford 56 22.537 0.296 0.007 159.737 16 22 Joey Logano Ford 81 22.547 0.306 0.010 159.666 17 21 Paul Menard Ford 50 22.578 0.337 0.031 159.447 18 3 Austin Dillon Chevrolet 47 22.581 0.340 0.003 159.426 19 17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Ford 35 22.617 0.376 0.036 159.172 20 6 Ryan Newman Ford 31 22.629 0.388 0.012 159.088 21 88 Alex Bowman Chevrolet 47 22.631 0.390 0.002 159.074 22 43 Darrell Wallace Jr. Chevrolet 55 22.670 0.429 0.039 158.800 23 8 Daniel Hemric Chevrolet 47 22.692 0.451 0.022 158.646 24 37 Chris Buescher Chevrolet 46 22.743 0.502 0.051 158.290 25 13 Ty Dillon Chevrolet 42 22.826 0.585 0.083 157.715 26 95 Matt DiBenedetto Toyota 30 22.853 0.612 0.027 157.529 27 47 Ryan Preece Chevrolet 19 22.934 0.693 0.081 156.972 28 32 Corey Lajoie Ford 27 22.941 0.700 0.007 156.924 29 34 Michael McDowell Ford 20 22.968 0.727 0.027 156.740 30 38 David Ragan Ford 44 23.027 0.786 0.059 156.338 31 15 Ross Chastain Chevrolet 16 23.264 1.023 0.237 154.746 32 36 Matt Tifft Ford 19 23.354 1.113 0.090 154.149 33 00 Landon Cassill Chevrolet 45 23.466 1.225 0.112 153.413 34 52 B.J. McLeod Chevrolet 10 23.506 1.265 0.040 153.152 35 51 Cody Ware Ford 15 23.617 1.376 0.111 152.433 36 77 Quin Houff Chevrolet 7 23.965 1.724 0.348 150.219 37 27 Reed Sorenson Chevrolet 14 24.171 1.930 0.206 148.939
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