Kyle Busch tops Friday's first NASCAR Cup practice at Daytona

Busch, who got into an incident with Jimmie Johnson in the first of Thursday night’s two Daytona 500 qualifying races, bolted to the top of the speed chart with an average lap speed of 200.284 mph late in the session at Daytona International Speedway.

His JGR teammate, Truex, was second (200.200 mph) and rookie Ryan Preece was third (200.169 mph). Erik Jones and Ryan Newman completed the top-five.

Rounding out the Top 10 were Matt DiBenedetto, Denny Hamlin, Bubba Wallace, David Ragan and Chase Elliott.

Hamlin posted the fastest average lap speed among the drivers who ran at least 10 consecutive laps (198.107 mph). DiBenedetto and Jones were second and third, respectively, in that category.

Take a lap around Daytona International Speedway with NASCAR Heat 3: 

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Cla	#	Driver	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	Mph
1	18	Kyle Busch	Toyota	15	44.936			200.285
2	19	Martin Truex Jr.	Toyota	19	44.955	0.019	0.019	200.200
3	47	Ryan Preece	Chevrolet	17	44.962	0.026	0.007	200.169
4	20	Erik Jones	Toyota	14	44.965	0.029	0.003	200.156
5	6	Ryan Newman	Ford	21	44.979	0.043	0.014	200.093
6	95	Matt DiBenedetto	Toyota	18	44.982	0.046	0.003	200.080
7	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	18	44.990	0.054	0.008	200.044
8	43	Darrell Wallace Jr.	Chevrolet	28	45.084	0.148	0.094	199.627
9	38	David Ragan	Ford	20	45.159	0.223	0.075	199.296
10	9	Chase Elliott	Chevrolet	16	45.179	0.243	0.020	199.208
11	13	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	23	45.242	0.306	0.063	198.930
12	48	Jimmie Johnson	Chevrolet	21	45.244	0.308	0.002	198.921
13	34	Michael McDowell	Ford	20	45.309	0.373	0.065	198.636
14	62	Brendan Gaughan	Chevrolet	8	45.338	0.402	0.029	198.509
15	8	Daniel Hemric	Chevrolet	26	45.392	0.456	0.054	198.273
16	24	William Byron	Chevrolet	32	45.397	0.461	0.005	198.251
17	31	Tyler Reddick	Chevrolet	22	45.404	0.468	0.007	198.220
18	3	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	27	45.411	0.475	0.007	198.190
19	14	Clint Bowyer	Ford	12	45.460	0.524	0.049	197.976
20	27	Casey Mears	Chevrolet	11	45.586	0.650	0.126	197.429
21	96	Parker Kligerman	Toyota	8	45.820	0.884	0.234	196.421
22	37	Chris Buescher	Chevrolet	9	46.203	1.267	0.383	194.793
23	88	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	20	46.617	1.681	0.414	193.063
24	10	Aric Almirola	Ford	12	46.660	1.724	0.043	192.885
25	22	Joey Logano	Ford	13	46.716	1.780	0.056	192.653
26	00	Landon Cassill	Chevrolet	16	46.894	1.958	0.178	191.922
27	40	Jamie McMurray	Chevrolet	18	46.953	2.017	0.059	191.681
28	36	Matt Tifft	Ford	4	46.993	2.057	0.040	191.518
29	41	Daniel Suarez	Ford	9	46.999	2.063	0.006	191.493
30	2	Brad Keselowski	Ford	13	47.013	2.077	0.014	191.436
31	1	Kurt Busch	Chevrolet	18	47.207	2.271	0.194	190.650
32	21	Paul Menard	Ford	18	47.261	2.325	0.054	190.432
33	12	Ryan Blaney	Ford	10	47.322	2.386	0.061	190.186
34	17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Ford	9	47.353	2.417	0.031	190.062
35	42	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	21	47.486	2.550	0.133	189.530
36	32	Corey Lajoie	Ford	12	47.818	2.882	0.332	188.214