Kyle Larson tops Friday's NASCAR Cup practice at Dover

Larson, coming off a rough ending in last weekend’s race at the Charlotte Roval, topped the 50-minute session with an average lap speed of 164.444 mph.

Kevin Harvick – who won the spring race at Dover – ended up second (163.451 mph) and Kurt Busch was third (163,362 mph). Chase Elliott was fourth and last week’s winner, Ryan Blaney, completed the top-five.

“I feel like we’ve kind of been on the cusp of being right there where we need to be just finding that little bit more from the speed standpoint of the race car and myself, but I think we’re close,” Blaney said.

“I don’t think we’re a favorite (in the playoffs), but I think we’re getting close to where we need to be, which is nice to see the progress that we’ve had throughout the year.”

Rounding out the Top 10 was Austin Dillon, Denny Hamlin, Erik Jones, Brad Keselowski and Daniel Suarez.

There were no on-track incidents during the session.

Cla	#	Driver	4506	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	Mph
1	42	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	5	21.892			164.444
2	4	Kevin Harvick	Ford	3	22.025	0.133	0.133	163.451
3	41	Kurt Busch	Ford	5	22.037	0.145	0.012	163.362
4	9	Chase Elliott	Chevrolet	5	22.054	0.162	0.017	163.236
5	12	Ryan Blaney	Ford	5	22.124	0.232	0.070	162.719
6	3	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	7	22.125	0.233	0.001	162.712
7	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	5	22.128	0.236	0.003	162.690
8	20	Erik Jones	Toyota	5	22.130	0.238	0.002	162.675
9	2	Brad Keselowski	Ford	5	22.144	0.252	0.014	162.572
10	19	Daniel Suarez	Toyota	8	22.150	0.258	0.006	162.528
11	48	Jimmie Johnson	Chevrolet	6	22.160	0.268	0.010	162.455
12	78	Martin Truex Jr.	Toyota	7	22.164	0.272	0.004	162.426
13	14	Clint Bowyer	Ford	5	22.164	0.272	0.000	162.426
14	88	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	7	22.165	0.273	0.001	162.418
15	21	Paul Menard	Ford	5	22.172	0.280	0.007	162.367
16	10	Aric Almirola	Ford	5	22.202	0.310	0.030	162.148
17	1	Jamie McMurray	Chevrolet	5	22.234	0.342	0.032	161.914
18	24	William Byron	Chevrolet	11	22.236	0.344	0.002	161.900
19	18	Kyle Busch	Toyota	7	22.245	0.353	0.009	161.834
20	47	A.J. Allmendinger	Chevrolet	12	22.258	0.366	0.013	161.740
21	22	Joey Logano	Ford	7	22.263	0.371	0.005	161.703
22	6	Matt Kenseth	Ford	5	22.308	0.416	0.045	161.377
23	17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Ford	5	22.324	0.432	0.016	161.261
24	38	David Ragan	Ford	7	22.359	0.467	0.035	161.009
25	31	Ryan Newman	Chevrolet	8	22.365	0.473	0.006	160.966
26	34	Michael McDowell	Ford	9	22.392	0.500	0.027	160.772
27	37	Chris Buescher	Chevrolet	9	22.513	0.621	0.121	159.908
28	32	Matt DiBenedetto	Ford	7	22.534	0.642	0.021	159.759
29	43	Darrell Wallace Jr.	Chevrolet	18	22.659	0.767	0.125	158.877
30	95	Regan Smith	Chevrolet	11	22.782	0.890	0.123	158.019
31	13	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	12	22.896	1.004	0.114	157.233
32	96	Jeffrey Earnhardt	Toyota	13	23.041	1.149	0.145	156.243
33	23	J.J. Yeley	Toyota	4	23.164	1.272	0.123	155.414
34	51	B.J. McLeod	Ford	6	23.239	1.347	0.075	154.912
35	72	Corey Lajoie	Chevrolet	13	23.480	1.588	0.241	153.322
36	00	Landon Cassill	Chevrolet	9	23.538	1.646	0.058	152.944
37	15	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	8	23.584	1.692	0.046	152.646
38	66	Timmy Hill	Toyota	5	23.769	1.877	0.185	151.458
39	52	Harrison Rhodes	Chevrolet	6	24.440	2.548	0.671	147.300
40	5	Juan Manuel Gonzalez	Toyota