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Wallace fastest in second Daytona 500 practice; Keselowski wrecks
Bubba Wallace was fastest in Saturday’s final Daytona 500 practice session which featured a freak incident with Brad Keselowski’s car.
Jim Utter
Edited: Feb 13, 2020, 4:11 PM
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About eight minutes into the session, Keselowski side-swiped a fence barricade by the exit gate of the garage and did extensive damage to the right-side of his No. 2 Ford. Keselowski said he was caught off-guard by a car slowing in front of him.
Keselowski never completed a lap in the session before bringing his No. 2 car back to the garage, where his team worked feverishly on repairing it so he did not have to move to a backup car.
Wallace ended up leading the session with a lap at 196.172 mph. Cole Custer was second (196.108 mph) and John Hunter Nemechek was third (196.039 mph). Alex Bowman was fourth and Jimmie Johnson completed the top-five.
Rounding out the top-10 speeds were Chase Elliott, William Byron, Denny Hamlin, Chris Buescher and Clint Bowyer.
Although there were some cars drafting, more drivers elected to do single-car runs in the second session in preparation for Sunday’s qualifying.
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Cla # Driver Manufacturer Laps Time Gap Interval Mph 1 43 
Darrell Wallace Jr. Chevrolet 7 45.878 196.172 2 41 Cole Custer Ford 6 45.893 0.015 0.015 196.108 3 38 John Hunter Nemechek Ford 9 45.909 0.031 0.016 196.040 4 88 Alex Bowman Chevrolet 13 46.133 0.255 0.224 195.088 5 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 1 46.193 0.315 0.060 194.835 6 9 Chase Elliott Chevrolet 3 46.316 0.438 0.123 194.317 7 24 William Byron Chevrolet 3 46.332 0.454 0.016 194.250 8 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 3 46.356 0.478 0.024 194.150 9 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Chevrolet 2 46.362 0.484 0.006 194.124 10 14 Clint Bowyer Ford 5 46.431 0.553 0.069 193.836 11 8 Tyler Reddick Chevrolet 7 46.476 0.598 0.045 193.648 12 4 Kevin Harvick Ford 3 46.507 0.629 0.031 193.519 13 95 Christopher Bell Toyota 5 46.508 0.630 0.001 193.515 14 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 3 46.515 0.637 0.007 193.486 15 20 Erik Jones Toyota 5 46.547 0.669 0.032 193.353 16 10 Aric Almirola Ford 3 46.592 0.714 0.045 193.166 17 19 Martin Truex Jr. Toyota 6 46.646 0.768 0.054 192.943 18 21 Matt DiBenedetto Ford 3 46.697 0.819 0.051 192.732 19 1 Kurt Busch Chevrolet 3 46.752 0.874 0.055 192.505 20 34 Michael McDowell Ford 5 46.784 0.906 0.032 192.373 21 6 Ryan Newman Ford 5 46.789 0.911 0.005 192.353 22 37 Ryan Preece Chevrolet 5 46.906 1.028 0.117 191.873 23 17 Chris Buescher Ford 5 46.909 1.031 0.003 191.861 24 13 Ty Dillon Chevrolet 3 46.938 1.060 0.029 191.742 25 22 Joey Logano Ford 7 46.942 1.064 0.004 191.726 26 42 Kyle Larson Chevrolet 15 47.121 1.243 0.179 190.998 27 62 Brendan Gaughan Chevrolet 3 47.121 1.243 0.000 190.998 28 16 Justin Haley Chevrolet 3 47.142 1.264 0.021 190.913 29 36 David Ragan Ford 3 47.217 1.339 0.075 190.609 30 27 Reed Sorenson Chevrolet 3 47.259 1.381 0.042 190.440 31 77 Ross Chastain Chevrolet 6 47.299 1.421 0.040 190.279 32 12 Ryan Blaney Ford 9 47.305 1.427 0.006 190.255 33 3 Austin Dillon Chevrolet 9 47.353 1.475 0.048 190.062 34 66 Timmy Hill Ford 7 47.653 1.775 0.300 188.865 35 49 Chad Finchum Toyota 7 47.673 1.795 0.020 188.786 36 32 Corey Lajoie Ford 5 48.058 2.180 0.385 187.274 37 96 
Daniel Suarez Toyota 3 48.319 2.441 0.261 186.262 38 00 Quin Houff Chevrolet 3 48.836 2.958 0.517 184.290 39 52 B.J. McLeod Ford 2 48.985 3.107 0.149 183.730 40 51 Joey Gase Chevrolet 2 49.107 3.229 0.122 183.273 41 54 J.J. Yeley Ford 1 50.082 4.204 0.975 179.705 42 2 Brad Keselowski Ford
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