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NASCAR Cup Dover II
Joey Logano tops first Cup Series practice at Dover
Joey Logano set the pace early and led the way in Friday’s first NASCAR Cup Series practice at Dover (Del.) International Speedway.
Jim Utter
Edited: Oct 4, 2019, 8:26 PM
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Logano’s No. 22 Penske team elected to do a mock qualifying run early in the 50-minute session and his average lap speed of 163.221 mph held up for the entire session.
William Byron ended up second (162.132 mph) and Jimmie Johnson was third (161.834 mph). Ryan Blaney and Alex Bowman rounded out the top-five.
“We made a qualifying run and would have like to have made another race run but we found a spot on our right-front (tire) and we couldn’t keep running on it,” Blaney said.
“I thought our car was pretty decent. The track is going to change a lot. It got a lot blacker than we first got on it from all the rubber that got laid down on that concrete. We just need to stay on top of that.”
In 21 career starts, Logano has never won at Dover. His best finish at the track is third (2010, 2013 2018).
Rounding out the top-10 were Paul Menard, Denny Hamlin, Kurt Busch, Aric Almirola and Kyle Larson.
In all, six of the top-10 speeds came from drivers will competing in the Cup series playoffs.
Kevin Harvick ended up with the fastest average speed (158.066 mph) among those drivers who ran at least 10 consecutive laps. Johnson and Blaney were second and third, respectively, in that category.
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Cla # Driver Manufacturer Laps Time Gap Interval Mph 1 22 
Joey Logano Ford 39 22.056 163.221 2 24 William Byron Chevrolet 44 22.204 0.148 0.148 162.133 3 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 30 22.245 0.189 0.041 161.834 4 12 Ryan Blaney Ford 29 22.290 0.234 0.045 161.507 5 88 Alex Bowman Chevrolet 50 22.351 0.295 0.061 161.067 6 21 Paul Menard Ford 28 22.361 0.305 0.010 160.995 7 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 39 22.434 0.378 0.073 160.471 8 1 Kurt Busch Chevrolet 28 22.446 0.390 0.012 160.385 9 10 Aric Almirola Ford 26 22.551 0.495 0.105 159.638 10 42 Kyle Larson Chevrolet 33 22.629 0.573 0.078 159.088 11 4 Kevin Harvick Ford 39 22.650 0.594 0.021 158.940 12 19 Martin Truex Jr. Toyota 33 22.667 0.611 0.017 158.821 13 9 Chase Elliott Chevrolet 40 22.769 0.713 0.102 158.110 14 8 Daniel Hemric Chevrolet 34 22.828 0.772 0.059 157.701 15 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 28 22.831 0.775 0.003 157.680 16 20 Erik Jones Toyota 42 22.845 0.789 0.014 157.584 17 17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Ford 47 22.855 0.799 0.010 157.515 18 14 Clint Bowyer Ford 35 22.859 0.803 0.004 157.487 19 2 Brad Keselowski Ford 37 22.897 0.841 0.038 157.226 20 41 
Daniel Suarez Ford 41 22.903 0.847 0.006 157.185 21 95 Matt DiBenedetto Toyota 40 22.930 0.874 0.027 157.000 22 3 Austin Dillon Chevrolet 38 22.956 0.90 0.026 156.822 23 13 Ty Dillon Chevrolet 32 23.024 0.968 0.068 156.359 24 37 Chris Buescher Chevrolet 32 23.025 0.969 0.001 156.352 25 6 Ryan Newman Ford 24 23.038 0.982 0.013 156.264 26 38 David Ragan Ford 35 23.067 1.011 0.029 156.067 27 36 Matt Tifft Ford 28 23.166 1.110 0.099 155.400 28 43 Darrell Wallace Jr. Chevrolet 21 23.224 1.168 0.058 155.012 29 34 Michael McDowell Ford 28 23.237 1.181 0.013 154.925 30 47 Ryan Preece Chevrolet 23 23.304 1.248 0.067 154.480 31 32 Corey Lajoie Ford 36 23.427 1.371 0.123 153.669 32 52 J.J. Yeley Ford 15 23.504 1.448 0.077 153.165 33 00 Landon Cassill Chevrolet 31 23.511 1.455 0.007 153.120 34 51 B.J. McLeod Ford 4 23.914 1.858 0.403 150.539 35 15 Ross Chastain Chevrolet 25 23.936 1.880 0.022 150.401 36 27 Joe Nemechek Chevrolet 20 24.036 1.980 0.10 149.775 37 77 Reed Sorenson Chevrolet 25 24.292 2.236 0.256 148.197 38 54 Garrett Smithley Chevrolet 13 24.476 2.420 0.184 147.083
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