Joey Logano keeps Team Penske out front in final Cup practice

Penske drivers Joey Logano and Ryan Blaney, who won the pole for Sunday’s race, topped the leaderboard in Saturday’s final practice session at Phoenix.

Logano led the way with an average lap speed of 137.794 mph followed by Blaney (137.221 mph) and Kevin Harvick (136.685 mph), who won the most recent race at Phoenix in November.

Kyle Busch was fourth and Aric Almirola completed the top-five.

Rounding out the Top 10 are Brad Keselowski, Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, Austin Dillon and Clint Bowyer.

Logano (136.137 mph) also had the fastest average speed among all the drivers who ran at least 10 consecutive laps. He was followed by Harvick, Almirola, Blaney and Keselowski, respectively, in that category.

About 10 minutes into the session, NASCAR displayed a caution after fluid was reported on the track. It appeared to have come from the No. 15 Chevrolet of Ross Chastain.

Track officials had to spread speedy dry through Turns 3 and 4 and down the backstretch to clean up the oil. The track returned to green with about 13 minutes left in the session.   

Keselowski was forced to sit out the final 15 minutes of the 50-minute session for twice failing pre-qualifying inspection on Friday.

Cla	#	Driver	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	Mph
1	22	Joey Logano	Ford	49	26.126			137.794
2	12	Ryan Blaney	Ford	52	26.235	0.109	0.109	137.221
3	4	Kevin Harvick	Ford	51	26.338	0.212	0.103	136.685
4	18	Kyle Busch	Toyota	58	26.387	0.261	0.049	136.431
5	10	Aric Almirola	Ford	47	26.408	0.282	0.021	136.322
6	2	Brad Keselowski	Ford	30	26.421	0.295	0.013	136.255
7	48	Jimmie Johnson	Chevrolet	54	26.431	0.305	0.010	136.204
8	1	Kurt Busch	Chevrolet	56	26.441	0.315	0.010	136.152
9	3	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	54	26.452	0.326	0.011	136.096
10	14	Clint Bowyer	Ford	40	26.458	0.332	0.006	136.065
11	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	59	26.486	0.360	0.028	135.921
12	9	Chase Elliott	Chevrolet	50	26.489	0.363	0.003	135.905
13	88	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	37	26.497	0.371	0.008	135.864
14	24	William Byron	Chevrolet	35	26.498	0.372	0.001	135.859
15	20	Erik Jones	Toyota	42	26.514	0.388	0.016	135.777
16	21	Paul Menard	Ford	44	26.518	0.392	0.004	135.757
17	19	Martin Truex Jr.	Toyota	43	26.521	0.395	0.003	135.741
18	41	Daniel Suarez	Ford	48	26.525	0.399	0.004	135.721
19	17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Ford	48	26.565	0.439	0.040	135.517
20	6	Ryan Newman	Ford	45	26.569	0.443	0.004	135.496
21	42	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	32	26.582	0.456	0.013	135.430
22	37	Chris Buescher	Chevrolet	44	26.614	0.488	0.032	135.267
23	8	Daniel Hemric	Chevrolet	46	26.616	0.490	0.002	135.257
24	13	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	36	26.715	0.589	0.099	134.756
25	34	Michael McDowell	Ford	30	26.720	0.594	0.005	134.731
26	43	Darrell Wallace Jr.	Chevrolet	34	26.758	0.632	0.038	134.539
27	95	Matt DiBenedetto	Toyota	45	26.772	0.646	0.014	134.469
28	47	Ryan Preece	Chevrolet	18	26.775	0.649	0.003	134.454
29	36	Matt Tifft	Ford	52	26.787	0.661	0.012	134.394
30	32	Corey Lajoie	Ford	20	26.810	0.684	0.023	134.278
31	38	David Ragan	Ford	24	26.897	0.771	0.087	133.844
32	15	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	22	26.981	0.855	0.084	133.427
33	00	Landon Cassill	Chevrolet	19	27.346	1.220	0.365	131.646
34	77	Quin Houff	Chevrolet	8	27.935	1.809	0.589	128.871
35	52	Bayley Currey	Ford	9	28.081	1.955	0.146	128.201