Practice report
NASCAR Cup Michigan II
Kevin Harvick tops Saturday's first Cup practice at Michigan
Kevin Harvick was fastest in Saturday’s first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice at Michigan International Speedway.
Jim Utter
Edited: Aug 10, 2019, 1:52 PM
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Harvick’s average lap speed of 190.501 mph topped the first 50-minute session at Michigan. Kyle Busch (190.019 mph) was second and William Byron (189.999 mph) third. Erik Jones and Joey Logano completed the top-five.
Rounding out the top-10 average lap speeds were Clint Bowyer, Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, Paul Menard and Denny Hamlin.
Harvick also had the fastest average lap speed (189.414 mph) among all the drivers who ran at least 10 consecutive laps. Jones, Busch, Daniel Suarez and Alex Bowman rounded out the top-five in that category.
There were no incidents in the session.
Brad Keselowski, who won the pole for Sunday’s race, ended up 18th-fastest and ran a session-high 51 laps.
Cla # Driver Manufacturer Laps Time Gap Interval Mph 1 4 
Kevin Harvick Ford 38 37.795 190.501 2 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 36 37.891 0.096 0.096 190.019 3 24 William Byron Chevrolet 29 37.895 0.100 0.004 189.999 4 20 Erik Jones Toyota 41 37.918 0.123 0.023 189.883 5 22 Joey Logano Ford 34 37.922 0.127 0.004 189.863 6 14 Clint Bowyer Ford 24 37.930 0.135 0.008 189.823 7 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 30 37.980 0.185 0.050 189.573 8 1 Kurt Busch Chevrolet 36 38.018 0.223 0.038 189.384 9 21 Paul Menard Ford 26 38.028 0.233 0.010 189.334 10 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 44 38.048 0.253 0.020 189.235 11 41 
Daniel Suarez Ford 43 38.059 0.264 0.011 189.180 12 19 Martin Truex Jr. Toyota 23 38.071 0.276 0.012 189.120 13 37 Chris Buescher Chevrolet 34 38.081 0.286 0.010 189.071 14 3 Austin Dillon Chevrolet 32 38.087 0.292 0.006 189.041 15 47 Ryan Preece Chevrolet 32 38.090 0.295 0.003 189.026 16 42 Kyle Larson Chevrolet 44 38.091 0.296 0.001 189.021 17 88 Alex Bowman Chevrolet 35 38.108 0.313 0.017 188.937 18 2 Brad Keselowski Ford 51 38.127 0.332 0.019 188.843 19 13 Ty Dillon Chevrolet 44 38.168 0.373 0.041 188.640 20 12 Ryan Blaney Ford 30 38.188 0.393 0.020 188.541 21 6 Ryan Newman Ford 21 38.205 0.410 0.017 188.457 22 9 Chase Elliott Chevrolet 33 38.208 0.413 0.003 188.442 23 8 Daniel Hemric Chevrolet 37 38.208 0.413 0.000 188.442 24 10 Aric Almirola Ford 36 38.215 0.420 0.007 188.408 25 43 Darrell Wallace Jr. Chevrolet 38 38.235 0.440 0.020 188.309 26 36 Matt Tifft Ford 24 38.288 0.493 0.053 188.048 27 95 Matt DiBenedetto Toyota 43 38.338 0.543 0.050 187.803 28 38 David Ragan Ford 34 38.340 0.545 0.002 187.793 29 34 Michael McDowell Ford 28 38.342 0.547 0.002 187.784 30 17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Ford 23 38.344 0.549 0.002 187.774 31 15 Ross Chastain Chevrolet 5 38.494 0.699 0.150 187.042 32 32 Corey Lajoie Ford 31 38.726 0.931 0.232 185.922 33 00 Landon Cassill Chevrolet 33 38.765 0.970 0.039 185.735 34 52 Austin Theriault Ford 19 39.256 1.461 0.491 183.411 35 27 Quin Houff Chevrolet 12 39.602 1.807 0.346 181.809 36 77 Garrett Smithley Chevrolet 8 39.781 1.986 0.179 180.991 37 51 Cody Ware Ford 11 40.154 2.359 0.373 179.310 38 53 Spencer Boyd Ford 15 40.423 2.628 0.269 178.116
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