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NASCAR Cup Chicagoland
Truex tops second NASCAR Cup practice at Chicagoland
Martin Truex Jr. was the first driver on the track at Chicagoland Speedway for second practice and his quick lap speed of 180.650mph held up during the 50-minute session on Saturday.
Lee Spencer
Edited: Sep 16, 2017, 4:42 PM
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Truex, who is the defending winner of the Tales of the Turtles 400, rolls off third on Sunday.
Chase Elliott led the Best 10 Consecutive Lap Average category with a speed of 176.416mph.
In the opening minutes, Ryan Blaney (179.802mph) was second in single-lap speeds followed by Chase Elliott (179.689mph), Keselowski (179.659mph), Newman (179.414mph), Aric Almirola (179.235mph), Kahne (178.879mph), Kurt Busch (178.814), Kenseth (178.589mph) and Logano (178.306mph). The top nine speeds held up during second practice.
After the first five minutes, 31 drivers posted at least one lap and the top 10 speeds remained in tact. Erik Jones was 11th followed by Clint Bowyer, Kevin Harvick, Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, Daniel Suarez, Kyle Larson, Austin Dillon and AJ Allmendinger.
Kyle Busch bumped Logano out of the top 10 with a lap of 178.312mph just before the 10-minute mark.
“Coming to you, crashing,” Busch told his crew after nine laps.
Fifteen minutes into practice, Kyle Busch was the only addition to the top 10 single-lap speeds. Almirola’s 23 laps were the most completed at that point.
At the 30-minute mark, the top 10 remained the same with Logano holding onto 11th followed by Jones, Bowyer, Harvick, Larson, Hamlin, Johnson, McMurray, Suarez and Austin Dillon. Dillon’s 26 laps were the most completed.
“It just kept building tighter,” McMurray said after 22 laps.
With 10 minutes remaining, there were no changes to the top 20. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., the 16th driver in the playoffs, was 22nd (176.702mph) on the speed chart after 17 laps. Austin Dillon’s 36 laps were the most completed among 40 drivers.
In the closing moments, Larson moved up to 14th on the sheet with a top speed of 178.106mph.
Keselowski was second quick in Best 10 Consecutive Lap Averages with a speed of 176.303mph followed by Kenseth, Newman, McMurray, Kyle Busch, Austin Dillon, Harvick, Menard and Almirola.
Cla#DriverManufacturerLapsTimeGapIntervalMph 1 78 
Martin Truex Jr. Toyota 22 29.892 180.650 2 21 Ryan Blaney Ford 23 30.033 0.141 0.141 179.802 3 24 Chase Elliott Chevrolet 45 30.052 0.160 0.019 179.689 4 2 Brad Keselowski Ford 30 30.057 0.165 0.005 179.659 5 31 Ryan Newman Chevrolet 25 30.098 0.206 0.041 179.414 6 43 Aric Almirola Ford 34 30.128 0.236 0.030 179.235 7 5 Kasey Kahne Chevrolet 23 30.188 0.296 0.060 178.879 8 41 Kurt Busch Ford 35 30.199 0.307 0.011 178.814 9 20 Matt Kenseth Toyota 46 30.237 0.345 0.038 178.589 10 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 30 30.284 0.392 0.047 178.312 11 22 Joey Logano Ford 28 30.285 0.393 0.001 178.306 12 77 Erik Jones Toyota 28 30.298 0.406 0.013 178.230 13 14 Clint Bowyer Ford 34 30.317 0.425 0.019 178.118 14 42 Kyle Larson Chevrolet 23 30.319 0.427 0.002 178.106 15 4 Kevin Harvick Ford 37 30.342 0.450 0.023 177.971 16 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 30 30.388 0.496 0.046 177.702 17 19 
Daniel Suarez Toyota 33 30.457 0.565 0.069 177.299 18 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 32 30.468 0.576 0.011 177.235 19 1 Jamie McMurray Chevrolet 34 30.471 0.579 0.003 177.218 20 3 Austin Dillon Chevrolet 48 30.528 0.636 0.057 176.887 21 47 A.J. Allmendinger Chevrolet 15 30.532 0.640 0.004 176.864 22 17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Ford 29 30.560 0.668 0.028 176.702 23 6 Trevor Bayne Ford 18 30.580 0.688 0.020 176.586 24 27 Paul Menard Chevrolet 30 30.580 0.688 0.000 176.586 25 95 Michael McDowell Chevrolet 36 30.619 0.727 0.039 176.361 26 37 Chris Buescher Chevrolet 20 30.701 0.809 0.082 175.890 27 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet 21 30.718 0.826 0.017 175.793 28 13 Ty Dillon Chevrolet 31 30.801 0.909 0.083 175.319 29 10 Danica Patrick Ford 29 30.921 1.029 0.120 174.639 30 38 David Ragan Ford 22 30.934 1.042 0.013 174.565 31 34 Landon Cassill Ford 30 31.201 1.309 0.267 173.071 32 32 Matt DiBenedetto Ford 23 31.211 1.319 0.010 173.016 33 23 Corey Lajoie Toyota 14 31.302 1.410 0.091 172.513 34 15 Reed Sorenson Toyota 21 31.359 1.467 0.057 172.199 35 72 Cole Whitt Chevrolet 8 31.373 1.481 0.014 172.123 36 83 Brett Moffitt Toyota 29 31.474 1.582 0.101 171.570 37 55 Gray Gaulding Toyota 19 31.727 1.835 0.253 170.202 38 66 Timmy Hill Chevrolet 8 31.939 2.047 0.212 169.072 39 33 Jeffrey Earnhardt Chevrolet 15 32.203 2.311 0.264 167.686 40 51 Ray Black Jr. Chevrolet 11 32.665 2.773 0.462 165.315
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