Practice report

NASCAR Cup Las Vegas II

Joey Logano leads first Cup practice from Las Vegas

Joey Logano set the pace in the opening practice session of the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs.

Nick DeGroot

Edited: Sep 14, 2018, 7:24 PM

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Joey Logano, Team Penske, Ford Fusion Shell Pennzoil

Logano's 189.653mph lap led the way among playoff contenders and was also the fastest of all.

Fellow Ford drivers Kevin Harvick and Aric Almirola were not far behind with laps of 189.460mph and 188.864mph. Erik Jones and Kurt Busch rounded out the top-five.

Jamie McMurray was the top non-playoff driver in tenth on the speed charts.

Jimmie Johnson was the slowest of the 16 playoff drivers, clocking in 21st.

Very few drivers ran more than ten laps during the opening practice with Ty Dillon running the most at 18.

The session went incident-free, but there were several practice holds (listed below).

15-minute holds

Failed pre-race inspection twice: No. 3 (Darlington); No. 7 (Bristol)

Late to inspection: No. 42; No. 51

Missing the rookie meeting: No. 15

30-minute holds

Failed pre-race inspection three or more times at Indianapolis: No. 78; No. 19

Cla # Driver 4506 Laps Time Gap Interval Mph 1 22 United States Joey Logano Ford 5 28.473 189.653 2 4 Kevin Harvick Ford 5 28.502 0.029 0.029 189.460 3 10 Aric Almirola Ford 5 28.592 0.119 0.090 188.864 4 20 Erik Jones Toyota 5 28.626 0.153 0.034 188.640 5 41 Kurt Busch Ford 5 28.702 0.229 0.076 188.140 6 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 7 28.714 0.241 0.012 188.062 7 11 United States Denny Hamlin Toyota 7 28.730 0.257 0.016 187.957 8 78 Martin Truex Jr. Toyota 5 28.765 0.292 0.035 187.728 9 14 Clint Bowyer Ford 5 28.773 0.300 0.008 187.676 10 1 Jamie McMurray Chevrolet 5 28.779 0.306 0.006 187.637 11 31 Ryan Newman Chevrolet 9 28.781 0.308 0.002 187.624 12 42 United States Kyle Larson Chevrolet 5 28.799 0.326 0.018 187.507 13 9 Chase Elliott Chevrolet 5 28.839 0.366 0.040 187.246 14 17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Ford 5 28.847 0.374 0.008 187.195 15 12 Ryan Blaney Ford 7 28.872 0.399 0.025 187.032 16 2 Brad Keselowski Ford 5 28.905 0.432 0.033 186.819 17 21 United States Paul Menard Ford 5 28.908 0.435 0.003 186.800 18 3 Austin Dillon Chevrolet 5 28.952 0.479 0.044 186.516 19 88 Alex Bowman Chevrolet 5 28.959 0.486 0.007 186.471 20 24 William Byron Chevrolet 10 28.965 0.492 0.006 186.432 21 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 8 29.002 0.529 0.037 186.194 22 38 United States David Ragan Ford 5 29.016 0.543 0.014 186.104 23 37 Chris Buescher Chevrolet 13 29.097 0.624 0.081 185.586 24 47 A.J. Allmendinger Chevrolet 12 29.119 0.646 0.022 185.446 25 6 Trevor Bayne Ford 7 29.154 0.681 0.035 185.223 26 32 Matt DiBenedetto Ford 5 29.176 0.703 0.022 185.084 27 34 United States Michael McDowell Ford 5 29.179 0.706 0.003 185.065 28 95 Regan Smith Chevrolet 10 29.297 0.824 0.118 184.319 29 19 Mexico Daniel Suarez Toyota 3 29.301 0.828 0.004 184.294 30 13 Ty Dillon Chevrolet 18 29.357 0.884 0.056 183.943 31 43 Darrell Wallace Jr. Chevrolet 16 29.810 1.337 0.453 181.147 32 96 United States Jeffrey Earnhardt Toyota 8 30.452 1.979 0.642 177.328 33 23 J.J. Yeley Toyota 6 30.580 2.107 0.128 176.586 34 15 Ross Chastain Chevrolet 5 30.781 2.308 0.201 175.433 35 72 Corey Lajoie Chevrolet 9 30.852 2.379 0.071 175.029 36 00 Landon Cassill Chevrolet 4 31.045 2.572 0.193 173.941 37 99 United States Kyle Weatherman Chevrolet 3 31.347 2.874 0.302 172.265 38 7 Reed Sorenson Chevrolet 3 31.374 2.901 0.027 172.117 39 66 Timmy Hill Toyota 4 31.634 3.161 0.260 170.702 40 51 B.J. McLeod Ford

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