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Austin Cindric tops NASCAR Cup practice on Indy RC
Team Penske’s Austin Cindric topped Saturday morning’s lone NASCAR Cup Series practice session at the Indy Road Course.
Jim Utter
Published: Jul 30, 2022, 2:33 PM
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As it turned out, the top-four speeds all came from the first 20-minute session led by Cindric’s average lap speed of 98.446 mph.
Daniel Suarez was second (98.354 mph), Ryan Blaney third (98.168 mph), Ross Chastain fourth and Christopher Bell – fastest in Group B – ended up fifth-fastest overall.
Group B
Bell was fastest in the second 20-minute session with an average lap speed of 98.089 mph.
Tyler Reddick ended up second (97.881 mph) and A.J. Allmendinger – who won this race a year ago – was third (97.875 mph).
Kevin Harvick and Joey Hand rounded out the top-five.
Just more than five minutes into the session, Corey LaJoie spun in Turn 11 and briefly went off course and but didn’t appear to suffer any damage to his No. 7 Chevrolet.
With about seven minutes remaining in the session, Erik Jones locked up in Turn 12 and briefly went off course.
Group A
Cindric led the way in the first 20-minute session with an average lap speed of 98.446 mph.
Suarez ended up second-fastest (98.354 mph) and Blaney made a run late in the session to get to third (98.168 mph).
“I thought it was a good session for us,” Blaney said. “We were able to make one change and go out and make some pretty decent laps. It’s hot, pretty slick out there. The biggest thing we fought is there’s a lot of corners you need bite and drive.”
Chastain was fourth and Brad Keselowski rounded out the top-five.
About six minutes into the session, both Chase Briscoe and Denny Hamlin briefly went off course but were able to continue on without a problem.
Hamlin also missed the entry to Turn 1 late in the session.
Cla # Driver Manufacturer Laps Time Gap Interval Mph 1 2 
Austin Cindric Ford 7 1'29.171 98.467 2 99 
Daniel Suarez Chevrolet 9 1'29.273 0.102 0.102 98.354 3 12 Ryan Blaney Ford 10 1'29.442 0.271 0.169 98.169 4 1 Ross Chastain Chevrolet 10 1'29.499 0.328 0.057 98.106 5 20 Christopher Bell Toyota 13 1'29.514 0.343 0.015 98.090 6 6 Brad Keselowski Ford 12 1'29.570 0.399 0.056 98.028 7 8 Tyler Reddick Chevrolet 12 1'29.704 0.533 0.134 97.882 8 16 A.J. Allmendinger Chevrolet 8 1'29.710 0.539 0.006 97.875 9 31 Justin Haley Chevrolet 9 1'29.777 0.606 0.067 97.802 10 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 9 1'29.804 0.633 0.027 97.773 11 5 Kyle Larson Chevrolet 8 1'29.826 0.655 0.022 97.749 12 3 Austin Dillon Chevrolet 10 1'29.827 0.656 0.001 97.748 13 14 Chase Briscoe Ford 8 1'29.940 0.769 0.113 97.625 14 4 Kevin Harvick Ford 11 1'29.949 0.778 0.009 97.615 15 10 Aric Almirola Ford 11 1'29.951 0.780 0.002 97.613 16 38 Todd Gilliland Ford 10 1'29.955 0.784 0.004 97.609 17 21 Harrison Burton Ford 12 1'29.956 0.785 0.001 97.608 18 15 Joey Hand Ford 12 1'29.965 0.794 0.009 97.598 19 19 Martin Truex Jr. Toyota 11 1'30.060 0.889 0.095 97.495 20 17 Chris Buescher Ford 10 1'30.063 0.892 0.003 97.492 21 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 12 1'30.076 0.905 0.013 97.478 22 9 Chase Elliott Chevrolet 10 1'30.083 0.912 0.007 97.470 23 34 Michael McDowell Ford 11 1'30.100 0.929 0.017 97.452 24 22 Joey Logano Ford 11 1'30.112 0.941 0.012 97.439 25 24 William Byron Chevrolet 8 1'30.141 0.970 0.029 97.407 26 48 Alex Bowman Chevrolet 8 1'30.261 1.090 0.120 97.278 27 41 Cole Custer Ford 11 1'30.455 1.284 0.194 97.069 28 42 Ty Dillon Chevrolet 9 1'30.540 1.369 0.085 96.978 29 23 Bubba Wallace Toyota 9 1'30.792 1.621 0.252 96.709 30 45 Ty Gibbs Toyota 12 1'30.819 1.648 0.027 96.680 31 51 Cody Ware Ford 8 1'31.146 1.975 0.327 96.333 32 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Chevrolet 8 1'31.174 2.003 0.028 96.304 33 77 Josh Bilicki Chevrolet 9 1'31.599 2.428 0.425 95.857 34 27 
Loris Hezemans Ford 12 1'31.694 2.523 0.095 95.758 35 43 Erik Jones Chevrolet 4 1'31.874 2.703 0.180 95.570 36 7 Corey Lajoie Chevrolet 7 1'32.135 2.964 0.261 95.299 37 26 
Daniil Kvyat Toyota 7 1'32.580 3.409 0.445 94.841 38 78 Josh Williams Ford 4 1'35.482 6.311 2.902 91.959
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