Kasey Kahne got his fourth pole of the season (and first with Red Bull Racing) on Friday, edging out last week's winner, Carl Edwards. Click here to view the starting lineup for the race on Sunday. Saturday's first practice session was held at 1:30 ET and Happy Hour at 2:50. The race is scheduled to start around 1:00 ET on Sunday.
Regan Smith hit the wall in first practice and his team spent much of the session making repairs (he ran only 7 laps). Kyle Busch hit the wall as well but there wasn't very much damage.
Click on the links (blue portions) to go to practice speed charts.
Top 5 for Practice Two:
1. Kyle Busch
2. Jeff Burton
3. Jeff Gordon
4. Greg Biffle
5. Mark Martin
Top 5 for Happy Hour:
1. Jeff Burton
2. Kasey Kahne
3. Martin Truex, Jr.
4. Denny Hamlin
5. Jamie McMurray
10-Lap Average speeds are much more important than one fast lap.
The top ten fastest at 10-lap averages in Happy Hour were:
1. David Reutimann
2. Kasey Kahne
3. Aric Almirola
4. Bill Elliott
5. Paul Menard
6. Martin Truex, Jr.
7. Jeff Burton
8. Kevin Harvick
9. Tony Stewart
10. David Ragan
10-lap average speeds in Saturday's first practice:
1. A.J. Allmendinger
2. Jeff Burton
3. Carl Edwards
4. Matt Kenseth
5. Tony Stewart
6. Martin Truex, Jr.
7. Paul Menard
8. Aric Almirola
9. Ryan Newman
10. Kurt Busch
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. The order that they are in is the overall average speeds rank. In parenthesis after each driver will be their rank of average speed in Happy Hour, which will probably be more helpful since it is more close to the conditions that the race will be on Saturday (although neither were very close).
1. Bill Elliott @ 166.539 mph over 70 laps (2nd in Happy Hour average speed)
2. David Reutimann @ 166.465 mph over 80 laps (1st in Happy Hour average speed)
3. Carl Edwards @ 166.341 mph over 52 laps (8th in Happy Hour average speed)
4. Paul Menard @ 166.297 mph over 70 laps (3rd in Happy Hour average speed)
5. Kevin Harvick @ 166.178 mph over 71 laps (5th in Happy Hour average speed)
6. Kasey Kahne @ 166.138 mph over 71 laps (6th in Happy Hour average speed)
7. Ryan Newman @ 166.057 mph over 68 laps (7th in Happy Hour average speed)
8. Jeff Gordon @ 166.055 mph over 59 laps (4th in Happy Hour average speed)
9. Marcos Ambrose @ 166.027 mph over 56 laps (10th in Happy Hour average speed)
10. Aric Almirola @ 165.968 mph over 87 laps (11th in Happy Hour average speed)
11. Kurt Busch @ 165.929 mph over 75 laps (9th in Happy Hour average speed)
12. Scott Speed @ 165.912 mph over 44 laps (15th in Happy Hour average speed)
13. Denny Hamlin @ 165.899 mph over 88 laps (14th in Happy Hour average speed)
14. Regan Smith @ 165.874 mph over 51 laps (13th in Happy Hour average speed)
15. Kyle Busch @ 165.871 mph over 83 laps (18th in Happy Hour average speed)
16. Jeff Burton @ 165.782 mph over 91 laps (20th in Happy Hour average speed)
17. Tony Stewart @ 165.743 mph over 89 laps (21st in Happy Hour average speed)
18. Jimmie Johnson @ 165.733 mph over 78 laps (17th in Happy Hour average speed)
19. Clint Bowyer @ 165.690 mph over 71 laps (12th in Happy Hour average speed)
20. Juan Montoya @ 165.651 mph over 67 laps (24th in Happy Hour average speed)
21. Elliott Sadler @ 165.648 mph over 56 laps (16th in Happy Hour average speed)
22. Martin Truex, Jr. @ 165.630 mph over 98 laps (28th in Happy Hour average speed)
23. Joey Logano @ 165.574 mph over 78 laps (22nd in Happy Hour average speed)
24. Jamie McMurray @ 165.365 mph over 68 laps (25th in Happy Hour average speed)
25. Matt Kenseth @ 165.341 mph over 66 laps (19th in Happy Hour average speed)
26. Greg Biffle @ 165.327 mph over 69 laps (29th in Happy Hour average speed)
27. David Ragan @ 165.271 mph over 91 laps (23rd in Happy Hour average speed)
28. Mark Martin @ 165.265 mph over 80 laps (30th in Happy Hour average speed)
29. A.J. Allmendinger @ 165.202 mph over 66 laps (26th in Happy Hour average speed)
30. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. @ 164.962 mph over 57 laps (27th in Happy Hour average speed)
31. Casey Mears @ 164.872 mph over 59 laps (32nd in Happy Hour average speed)
32. Brad Keselowski @ 164.786 mph over 91 laps (31st in Happy Hour average speed)
33. Sam Hornish, Jr. @ 163.459 mph over 47 laps (34th in Happy Hour average speed)
34. Bobby Labonte @ 163.143 mph over 61 laps (33rd in Happy Hour average speed)
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