Carl Edwards was the fastest of 43 cars in the first Coca-Cola 600 practice session held on Saturday.
Edwards, whose plans for 2015 are unknown, left no one questioning whether or not he knew how to get around the 1.5-mile Charlotte Motor Speedway.
You can view all the practice speeds from Saturday’s first Cup Series session below. The cars will return to the track after Nationwide Series qualifying.
Charlotte Sprint Cup Practice Speeds Saturday Session No. 1
RANK | CAR | DRIVER | TIME | SPEED | LAP NO. | LAPS |
1 | 99 | Carl Edwards | 28.008 | 192.802 | 1 | 22 |
2 | 47 | AJ Allmendinger | 28.069 | 192.383 | 1 | 25 |
3 | 78 | Martin Truex Jr. | 28.084 | 192.28 | 1 | 26 |
4 | 48 | Jimmie Johnson | 28.087 | 192.26 | 1 | 40 |
5 | 2 | Brad Keselowski | 28.109 | 192.109 | 1 | 31 |
6 | 24 | Jeff Gordon | 28.175 | 191.659 | 4 | 11 |
7 | 18 | Kyle Busch | 28.181 | 191.618 | 2 | 37 |
8 | 31 | Ryan Newman | 28.205 | 191.455 | 3 | 30 |
9 | 9 | Marcos Ambrose | 28.208 | 191.435 | 1 | 25 |
10 | 11 | Denny Hamlin | 28.237 | 191.238 | 1 | 38 |
11 | 15 | Clint Bowyer | 28.253 | 191.13 | 3 | 24 |
12 | 42 | Kyle Larson # | 28.26 | 191.083 | 2 | 30 |
13 | 17 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr. | 28.289 | 190.887 | 1 | 24 |
14 | 16 | Greg Biffle | 28.307 | 190.766 | 1 | 28 |
15 | 88 | Dale Earnhardt Jr. | 28.315 | 190.712 | 1 | 33 |
16 | 13 | Casey Mears | 28.32 | 190.678 | 2 | 30 |
17 | 43 | Aric Almirola | 28.321 | 190.671 | 1 | 26 |
18 | 5 | Kasey Kahne | 28.333 | 190.59 | 1 | 42 |
19 | 4 | Kevin Harvick | 28.355 | 190.443 | 1 | 32 |
20 | 22 | Joey Logano | 28.375 | 190.308 | 2 | 36 |
21 | 21 | Trevor Bayne(i) | 28.378 | 190.288 | 1 | 19 |
22 | 27 | Paul Menard | 28.447 | 189.827 | 1 | 26 |
23 | 1 | Jamie McMurray | 28.476 | 189.633 | 1 | 29 |
24 | 10 | Danica Patrick | 28.505 | 189.44 | 6 | 35 |
25 | 20 | Matt Kenseth | 28.507 | 189.427 | 3 | 29 |
26 | 41 | K. Busch / P. Kligerman | 28.512 | 189.394 | 5 | 23 |
27 | 55 | Brian Vickers | 28.537 | 189.228 | 1 | 38 |
28 | 33 | Brian Scott(i) | 28.558 | 189.089 | 1 | 41 |
29 | 51 | Justin Allgaier # | 28.617 | 188.699 | 3 | 34 |
30 | 34 | David Ragan | 28.662 | 188.403 | 1 | 23 |
31 | 95 | Michael McDowell | 28.678 | 188.298 | 1 | 21 |
32 | 14 | Tony Stewart | 28.689 | 188.225 | 1 | 27 |
33 | 26 | Cole Whitt # | 28.778 | 187.643 | 2 | 18 |
34 | 3 | Austin Dillon # | 28.801 | 187.493 | 8 | 33 |
35 | 23 | Alex Bowman # | 28.862 | 187.097 | 2 | 22 |
36 | 83 | Ryan Truex # | 28.862 | 187.097 | 1 | 13 |
37 | 38 | David Gilliland | 28.918 | 186.735 | 2 | 22 |
38 | 98 | Josh Wise | 28.93 | 186.657 | 4 | 21 |
39 | 66 | Joe Nemechek(i) | 28.94 | 186.593 | 3 | 16 |
40 | 7 | Michael Annett # | 28.954 | 186.503 | 2 | 29 |
41 | 40 | Landon Cassill(i) | 28.97 | 186.4 | 1 | 22 |
42 | 36 | Reed Sorenson | 29.001 | 186.2 | 3 | 19 |
43 | 32 | Blake Koch(i) | 29.774 | 181.366 | 11 | 30 |