Segment III has is almost here with the same prices as last segment (kind of a bummer because Johnson would have been super cheap if they would have changed them). Harvick is still pretty much off-limits for me unless there are a lot of low-dollar drivers that could do well.
Not much to go off of this week because every practice was ran before qualifying. In practice one (which lasted two hours), most teams worked on their race setup, trying to perfect their car for Sunday night. In the second practice (only 45 minutes), most teams ran only a handful of laps, working on qualifying. Only Johnson, Keselowski, Burton, Logano, and McMurray ran laps in the double digits.
Top 5 for Practice One:
1. Kasey Kahne
2. Kurt Busch
3. Clint Bowyer
4. Jeff Burton
5. Denny Hamlin
Top 5 for Practice Two (wouldn't put much emphasis on these):
1. Ryan Newman
2. Carl Edwards
3. Juan Montoya
4. David Ragan
5. Clint Bowyer
Average speeds are calculated by taking the average speed of each driver in each practice and multiplying it by the number of laps ran. When you do this for each practice and add the two totals together, and then divide by the total number of laps ran, you get a pretty good indicator on who has a fast car. On tracks like Atlanta in the past, those who are high on the average speed chart usually finish up front.
1. Denny Hamlin @ 177.069 mph over 53 laps
2. Carl Edwards @ 176.160 mph over 61 laps
3. Kasey Kahne @ 175.601 mph over 63 laps
4. Clint Bowyer @ 175.266 mph over 53 laps
5. Elliott Sadler @ 175.253 mph over 63 laps
6. Ryan Newman @ 175.246 mph over 71 laps
7. Greg Biffle @ 175.191 mph over 72 laps
8. A.J. Allmendinger @ 175.116 mph over 63 laps
9. Paul Menard @ 174.903 mph over 65 laps
10. Juan Montoya @ 174.836 mph over 52 laps
11. Martin Truex, Jr. @ 174.638 mph over 55 laps
12. Jamie McMurray @ 174.478 mph over 59 laps
13. Casey Mears @ 174.353 mph over 35 laps
14. Tony Stewart @ 174.277 mph over 73 laps
15. Kyle Busch @ 174.034 mph over 90 laps
16. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. @ 173.991 mph over 63 laps
17. Marcos Ambrose @ 173.913 mph over 47 laps
18. Kevin Harvick @ 173.830 mph over 43 laps
19. Mark Martin @ 173.704 mph over 69 laps
20. Jimmie Johnson @ 173.597 mph over 77 laps
21. David Ragan @ 173.515 mph over 70 laps
22. Jeff Gordon @ 173.510 mph over 61 maps
23. Reed Sorenson @ 173.506 mph over 46 laps
24. Matt Kenseth @ 173.435 mph over 64 laps
25. Brad Keselowski @ 173.298 mph over 64 laps
26. Scott Speed @ 173.296 mph over 63 laps
27. Jeff Burton @ 173.212 mph over 76 laps
28. David Reutimann @ 173.156 mph over 72 laps
29. Regan Smith @ 172.775 mph over 72 laps
30. Joey Logano @ 172.767 mph over 82 laps
31. Sam Hornish, Jr. @ 172.689 mph over 82 laps
32. Kurt Busch @ 172.640 mph over 55 laps
33. Bill Elliott @ 172.591 mph over 52 laps
34. Dave Blaney @ 171.887 mph over 36 laps
35. David Gilliland @ 171.472 mph over 43 laps
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