Practice report

NASCAR Cup Texas II

Ryan Blaney leads Friday's lone Cup practice at Texas

Ryan Blaney topped the charts at 198.976mph ahead of playoff drivers Kevin Harvick and Kurt Busch.

Nick DeGroot

Edited: Nov 3, 2018, 12:38 AM

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Ryan Blaney, Team Penske, Ford Fusion Accella/Carlisle

Blaney led a trio of Fords during practice with Denny Hamlin and Aric Almirola rounding out the top-five.

Martinsville winner Joey Logano, who is the only driver locked into the Championship 4 at Homestead, was sixth. Meanwhile, Martin Truex Jr. was down in 17th and appeared to be fighting the balance of his race car.

Clint Bowyer was seventh, Kyle Busch 11th and Chase Elliott was the slowest of the playoff drivers down in 18th.

The session went incident-free, but the No. 99 of Kyle Weatherman had to serve a 15-minute practice hold for being late to inspection.

Joey Gase ran the most laps at 19 while the majority of the field focused on qualifying runs.

Cla # Driver 4506 Laps Time Gap Interval Mph 1 12 United States Ryan Blaney Ford 5 27.139 198.976 2 4 Kevin Harvick Ford 7 27.210 0.071 0.071 198.456 3 41 Kurt Busch Ford 5 27.254 0.115 0.044 198.136 4 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 7 27.254 0.115 0.000 198.136 5 10 Aric Almirola Ford 7 27.286 0.147 0.032 197.904 6 22 Joey Logano Ford 5 27.422 0.283 0.136 196.922 7 14 United States Clint Bowyer Ford 7 27.429 0.290 0.007 196.872 8 20 Erik Jones Toyota 5 27.452 0.313 0.023 196.707 9 17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Ford 7 27.468 0.329 0.016 196.592 10 2 Brad Keselowski Ford 5 27.474 0.335 0.006 196.549 11 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 5 27.487 0.348 0.013 196.457 12 48 United States Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 6 27.501 0.362 0.014 196.356 13 88 Alex Bowman Chevrolet 5 27.534 0.395 0.033 196.121 14 42 Kyle Larson Chevrolet 7 27.537 0.398 0.003 196.100 15 3 Austin Dillon Chevrolet 13 27.575 0.436 0.038 195.830 16 31 Ryan Newman Chevrolet 7 27.580 0.441 0.005 195.794 17 78 United States Martin Truex Jr. Toyota 7 27.588 0.449 0.008 195.737 18 9 Chase Elliott Chevrolet 5 27.591 0.452 0.003 195.716 19 19 Mexico Daniel Suarez Toyota 5 27.591 0.452 0.000 195.716 20 24 William Byron Chevrolet 7 27.599 0.460 0.008 195.659 21 1 Jamie McMurray Chevrolet 5 27.610 0.471 0.011 195.581 22 21 United States Paul Menard Ford 7 27.719 0.580 0.109 194.812 23 47 A.J. Allmendinger Chevrolet 13 27.742 0.603 0.023 194.651 24 6 Trevor Bayne Ford 6 27.807 0.668 0.065 194.196 25 32 Matt DiBenedetto Ford 9 27.920 0.781 0.113 193.410 26 37 Chris Buescher Chevrolet 8 27.922 0.783 0.002 193.396 27 38 United States David Ragan Ford 8 27.926 0.787 0.004 193.368 28 13 Ty Dillon Chevrolet 9 27.934 0.795 0.008 193.313 29 34 Michael McDowell Ford 10 27.947 0.808 0.013 193.223 30 43 Darrell Wallace Jr. Chevrolet 12 28.058 0.919 0.111 192.458 31 95 Regan Smith Chevrolet 12 28.127 0.988 0.069 191.986 32 00 United States Landon Cassill Chevrolet 8 28.547 1.408 0.420 189.162 33 96 Parker Kligerman Toyota 10 28.551 1.412 0.004 189.135 34 72 Corey Lajoie Chevrolet 8 28.768 1.629 0.217 187.709 35 7 Reed Sorenson Chevrolet 7 28.831 1.692 0.063 187.298 36 99 Kyle Weatherman Chevrolet 8 28.983 1.844 0.152 186.316 37 23 United States J.J. Yeley Toyota 7 29.160 2.021 0.177 185.185 38 15 Ross Chastain Chevrolet 4 29.289 2.150 0.129 184.370 39 66 Timmy Hill Toyota 7 29.311 2.172 0.022 184.231 40 97 David Starr Toyota 6 29.749 2.610 0.438 181.519 41 51 Joey Gase Ford 19 30.064 2.925 0.315 179.617

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