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NASCAR Cup Nashville
Tyler Reddick leads Truex in Nashville Cup practice
Toyota drivers Tyler Reddick and Martin Truex Jr. showed the way in Friday’s NASCAR Cup practice at Nashville (Tenn.) Superspeedway.
Jim Utter
Edited: Jun 24, 2023, 10:51 AM
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Reddick, who drives the No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota, ended up with the fastest average lap speed at 162.250 mph.
Reddick was fastest when teams initially went out on the track during the 50-minute session and later when most teams changed over to qualifying set up.
Truex ended up second-fastest (161.407 mph) and Ross Chastain was third (161.369 mph).
Erik Jones and William Byron rounded out the top-five.
Completing the top-10 average lap speeds were Bubba Wallace, Denny Hamlin, last year’s race winner Chase Elliott, Chris Buescher and A.J. Allmendinger.
Among those drivers who ran at least 10 consecutive laps, Reddick also had the fastest average lap speed (160.400 mph). Chastain and Truex were second and third, respectively, in that category.
About 35 minutes into the session, Kyle Busch spun off Turn 4 and down the frontstretch but avoided any contact with the wall.
Busch took his No. 8 Chevrolet immediately to the garage after the incident.
There were no other incidents during the session.
Cla # Driver Manufacturer Laps Time Gap Interval Mph 1 45 
Tyler Reddick Toyota 46 29.510 162.250 2 19 Martin Truex Jr. Toyota 56 29.664 0.154 0.154 161.408 3 1 Ross Chastain Chevrolet 47 29.671 0.161 0.007 161.370 4 43 Erik Jones Chevrolet 46 29.741 0.231 0.070 160.990 5 24 William Byron Chevrolet 53 29.755 0.245 0.014 160.914 6 23 Bubba Wallace Toyota 37 29.777 0.267 0.022 160.795 7 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 56 29.783 0.273 0.006 160.763 8 9 Chase Elliott Chevrolet 38 29.792 0.282 0.009 160.714 9 17 Chris Buescher Ford 49 29.802 0.292 0.010 160.660 10 16 A.J. Allmendinger Chevrolet 43 29.816 0.306 0.014 160.585 11 54 Ty Gibbs Toyota 51 29.818 0.308 0.002 160.574 12 34 Michael McDowell Ford 36 29.845 0.335 0.027 160.429 13 12 Ryan Blaney Ford 58 29.849 0.339 0.004 160.407 14 5 Kyle Larson Chevrolet 56 29.859 0.349 0.010 160.354 15 4 Kevin Harvick Ford 61 29.864 0.354 0.005 160.327 16 99 
Daniel Suarez Chevrolet 48 29.880 0.370 0.016 160.241 17 22 Joey Logano Ford 45 29.891 0.381 0.011 160.182 18 20 Christopher Bell Toyota 50 29.893 0.383 0.002 160.171 19 6 Brad Keselowski Ford 46 29.894 0.384 0.001 160.166 20 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Chevrolet 45 29.894 0.384 0.000 160.166 21 8 Kyle Busch Chevrolet 31 29.923 0.413 0.029 160.011 22 41 Ryan Preece Ford 38 29.930 0.420 0.007 159.973 23 10 Aric Almirola Ford 46 29.933 0.423 0.003 159.957 24 7 Corey Lajoie Chevrolet 38 29.984 0.474 0.051 159.685 25 48 Alex Bowman Chevrolet 37 30.003 0.493 0.019 159.584 26 3 Austin Dillon Chevrolet 38 30.012 0.502 0.009 159.536 27 21 Harrison Burton Ford 29 30.055 0.545 0.043 159.308 28 31 Justin Haley Chevrolet 37 30.068 0.558 0.013 159.239 29 51 J.J. Yeley Ford 27 30.070 0.560 0.002 159.228 30 2 Austin Cindric Ford 32 30.081 0.571 0.011 159.170 31 14 Chase Briscoe Ford 35 30.188 0.678 0.107 158.606 32 42 Noah Gragson Chevrolet 48 30.200 0.690 0.012 158.543 33 77 Ty Dillon Chevrolet 40 30.248 0.738 0.048 158.291 34 38 Todd Gilliland Ford 29 30.320 0.810 0.072 157.916 35 15 Brennan Poole Ford 19 30.409 0.899 0.089 157.453 36 78 Josh Bilicki Chevrolet 13 31.687 2.177 1.278 151.103
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