11-time Dover winner Jimmie Johnson fastest in final practice

Johnson, who has 11 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series victories at Dover, led the way in Saturday’s final practice session as his average lap speed of 161.863 mph topped the leaderboard.

Johnson enters Sunday’s Gander RV 400 on a career-worst 69-race winless streak and coincidently his last victory came at Dover in June 2017.

“Over the years I feel like here, we’ve probably stayed in the game more than other tracks. We won here a couple of years ago, I feel like we were one of the best cars here last year, but had something weird break on the car before we took to the track for the race,” Johnson said.

“I feel like here, our cars have always performed well at Hendrick Motorsports with high-vertical loading and this track certainly has a lot of that. Martinsville seems like it’s slipped away from us a little bit, performance-wise, but at Dover, we seem to come back here and repeat each time.”

Martin Truex Jr. ended up second (161.718 mph) and Erik Jones was third (161.435 mph). Kyle Larson and Aric Almirola completed the top-five.

Rounding out the top-10 were Daniel Suarez, William Byron, Kurt Busch, Clint Bowyer and pole-winner Chase Elliott.

Among the drivers who ran 10 consecutive laps, Larson was the fastest, followed by Jones, Truex, Kevin Harvick and Brad Keselowski.

The final 50-minute practice session was the only one of the day as heavy fog canceled Saturday’s morning session.

Larson's average speed for 10 consecutive laps was 159.747 mph if you want to throw in there

Cla	#	Driver		Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	Mph
1	48	Jimmie Johnson		Chevrolet	59	22.241			161.863
2	19	Martin Truex Jr.		Toyota	66	22.261	0.020	0.020	161.718
3	20	Erik Jones		Toyota	63	22.300	0.059	0.039	161.435
4	42	Kyle Larson		Chevrolet	60	22.341	0.100	0.041	161.139
5	10	Aric Almirola		Ford	39	22.373	0.132	0.032	160.908
6	41	Daniel Suarez		Ford	68	22.379	0.138	0.006	160.865
7	24	William Byron		Chevrolet	71	22.384	0.143	0.005	160.829
8	1	Kurt Busch		Chevrolet	42	22.443	0.202	0.059	160.406
9	14	Clint Bowyer		Ford	69	22.458	0.217	0.015	160.299
10	9	Chase Elliott		Chevrolet	64	22.471	0.230	0.013	160.206
11	11	Denny Hamlin		Toyota	58	22.478	0.237	0.007	160.157
12	18	Kyle Busch		Toyota	62	22.505	0.264	0.027	159.964
13	12	Ryan Blaney		Ford	52	22.522	0.281	0.017	159.844
14	4	Kevin Harvick		Ford	60	22.530	0.289	0.008	159.787
15	2	Brad Keselowski		Ford	56	22.537	0.296	0.007	159.737
16	22	Joey Logano		Ford	81	22.547	0.306	0.010	159.666
17	21	Paul Menard		Ford	50	22.578	0.337	0.031	159.447
18	3	Austin Dillon		Chevrolet	47	22.581	0.340	0.003	159.426
19	17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.		Ford	35	22.617	0.376	0.036	159.172
20	6	Ryan Newman		Ford	31	22.629	0.388	0.012	159.088
21	88	Alex Bowman		Chevrolet	47	22.631	0.390	0.002	159.074
22	43	Darrell Wallace Jr.		Chevrolet	55	22.670	0.429	0.039	158.800
23	8	Daniel Hemric		Chevrolet	47	22.692	0.451	0.022	158.646
24	37	Chris Buescher		Chevrolet	46	22.743	0.502	0.051	158.290
25	13	Ty Dillon		Chevrolet	42	22.826	0.585	0.083	157.715
26	95	Matt DiBenedetto		Toyota	30	22.853	0.612	0.027	157.529
27	47	Ryan Preece		Chevrolet	19	22.934	0.693	0.081	156.972
28	32	Corey Lajoie		Ford	27	22.941	0.700	0.007	156.924
29	34	Michael McDowell		Ford	20	22.968	0.727	0.027	156.740
30	38	David Ragan		Ford	44	23.027	0.786	0.059	156.338
31	15	Ross Chastain		Chevrolet	16	23.264	1.023	0.237	154.746
32	36	Matt Tifft		Ford	19	23.354	1.113	0.090	154.149
33	00	Landon Cassill		Chevrolet	45	23.466	1.225	0.112	153.413
34	52	B.J. McLeod		Chevrolet	10	23.506	1.265	0.040	153.152
35	51	Cody Ware		Ford	15	23.617	1.376	0.111	152.433
36	77	Quin Houff		Chevrolet	7	23.965	1.724	0.348	150.219
37	27	Reed Sorenson		Chevrolet	14	24.171	1.930	0.206	148.939