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.
Photo by: John Harrelson / NKP / Motorsport Images
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.
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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