{"id":19452,"date":"2019-02-15T14:13:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T19:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=19452"},"modified":"2019-02-15T14:17:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T19:17:13","slug":"kyle-busch-fastest-in-first-friday-mencs-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/02\/15\/kyle-busch-fastest-in-first-friday-mencs-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Busch fastest in first Friday MENCS practice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kyle Busch picked up where he left off posting the fastest lap in the first Friday practice for the 61st running of the Daytona 500.<\/p>\n

Busch’s speed of 200.285 on his fourth lap resulted in a time of 44.936 seconds around the 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway. Teammate Martin Truex Jr. was second fastest with fellow Toyota driver Ryan Preece third fastest. Erik Jones, another Joe Gibbs Racing driver, was fourth fastest followed by Ryan Newman who was the first non-Toyota.<\/p>\n

In total 36 cars took laps in the first practice session.<\/p>\n

MENCS Friday Practice #1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
RaceRank<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\nDriver<\/td>\nBestLapTime<\/td>\nBestSpeed<\/td>\nBestLap<\/td>\nLaps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\n18<\/td>\nKyle Busch<\/td>\n44.936<\/td>\n200.285<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n19<\/td>\nMartin Truex Jr.<\/td>\n44.955<\/td>\n200.2<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n47<\/td>\nRyan Preece #<\/td>\n44.962<\/td>\n200.169<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\n20<\/td>\nErik Jones<\/td>\n44.965<\/td>\n200.156<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n6<\/td>\nRyan Newman<\/td>\n44.979<\/td>\n200.093<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\n95<\/td>\nMatt DiBenedetto<\/td>\n44.982<\/td>\n200.08<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\n11<\/td>\nDenny Hamlin<\/td>\n44.99<\/td>\n200.044<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\n43<\/td>\nBubba Wallace<\/td>\n45.084<\/td>\n199.627<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n28<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\n38<\/td>\nDavid Ragan<\/td>\n45.159<\/td>\n199.296<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\n9<\/td>\nChase Elliott<\/td>\n45.179<\/td>\n199.208<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\n13<\/td>\nTy Dillon<\/td>\n45.242<\/td>\n198.93<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n23<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\n48<\/td>\nJimmie Johnson<\/td>\n45.244<\/td>\n198.921<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\n34<\/td>\nMichael McDowell<\/td>\n45.309<\/td>\n198.636<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\n*62<\/td>\nBrendan Gaughan(i)<\/td>\n45.338<\/td>\n198.509<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\n8<\/td>\nDaniel Hemric #<\/td>\n45.392<\/td>\n198.273<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n26<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\n24<\/td>\nWilliam Byron<\/td>\n45.397<\/td>\n198.251<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>\n*31<\/td>\nTyler Reddick(i)<\/td>\n45.404<\/td>\n198.22<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n22<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>\n3<\/td>\nAustin Dillon<\/td>\n45.411<\/td>\n198.19<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n27<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>\n14<\/td>\nClint Bowyer<\/td>\n45.46<\/td>\n197.976<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\n*27<\/td>\nCasey Mears<\/td>\n45.586<\/td>\n197.429<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21<\/td>\n*96<\/td>\nParker Kligerman(i)<\/td>\n45.82<\/td>\n196.421<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22<\/td>\n37<\/td>\nChris Buescher<\/td>\n46.203<\/td>\n194.793<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23<\/td>\n88<\/td>\nAlex Bowman<\/td>\n46.617<\/td>\n193.063<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24<\/td>\n10<\/td>\nAric Almirola<\/td>\n46.66<\/td>\n192.885<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25<\/td>\n22<\/td>\nJoey Logano<\/td>\n46.716<\/td>\n192.653<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26<\/td>\n00<\/td>\nLandon Cassill<\/td>\n46.894<\/td>\n191.922<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27<\/td>\n40<\/td>\nJamie McMurray<\/td>\n46.953<\/td>\n191.681<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28<\/td>\n36<\/td>\nMatt Tifft #<\/td>\n46.993<\/td>\n191.518<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29<\/td>\n41<\/td>\nDaniel Suarez<\/td>\n46.999<\/td>\n191.493<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30<\/td>\n2<\/td>\nBrad Keselowski<\/td>\n47.013<\/td>\n191.436<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
31<\/td>\n1<\/td>\nKurt Busch<\/td>\n47.207<\/td>\n190.65<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
32<\/td>\n21<\/td>\nPaul Menard<\/td>\n47.261<\/td>\n190.432<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
33<\/td>\n12<\/td>\nRyan Blaney<\/td>\n47.322<\/td>\n190.186<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
34<\/td>\n17<\/td>\nRicky Stenhouse Jr.<\/td>\n47.353<\/td>\n190.062<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
35<\/td>\n42<\/td>\nKyle Larson<\/td>\n47.486<\/td>\n189.53<\/td>\n21<\/td>\n21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
36<\/td>\n32<\/td>\nCorey LaJoie<\/td>\n47.818<\/td>\n188.214<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Kyle Busch picked up where he left off posting the fastest lap in the first Friday practice for the 61st running of the Daytona 500. Busch’s speed of 200.285 on his fourth lap resulted in a time of 44.936 seconds around the 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway. Teammate Martin Truex Jr. was second fastest with fellow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[375],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-19452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-kyle-busch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19452"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}