{"id":19884,"date":"2019-03-08T16:31:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T21:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=19884"},"modified":"2019-03-08T16:31:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T21:31:11","slug":"ryan-blaney-fastest-in-opening-practice-mencs-times-for-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/03\/08\/ryan-blaney-fastest-in-opening-practice-mencs-times-for-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Blaney fastest in opening practice, MENCS times for Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19886\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/ryanblaney.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"901\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/ryanblaney.png 901w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/ryanblaney-594x324.png 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/ryanblaney-300x163.png 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/ryanblaney-768x419.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 901px) 100vw, 901px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ryan Blaney is seeking to join teammates Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski as drivers who have gone to victory lane this season. In Friday&#8217;s opening practice for the Ticket Guardian 500 the driver of the No. 12 compiled the fastest laps beating out Keselowski and Kyle Larson.<\/p>\n<p>Qualifying at ISM Raceway will take place at 6 pm ET on Friday.<\/p>\n<h2>Opening MENCS Practice at ISM Raceway<\/h2>\n<table width=\"548\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"82\">RaceRank<\/td>\n<td width=\"41\">No<\/td>\n<td width=\"119\">Driver<\/td>\n<td width=\"100\">BestLapTime<\/td>\n<td width=\"86\">BestSpeed<\/td>\n<td width=\"70\">BestLap<\/td>\n<td width=\"50\">Laps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">12<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ryan Blaney<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">25.403<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">141.716<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brad Keselowski<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">25.59<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">140.68<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">42<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kyle Larson<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">25.64<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">140.406<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chase Elliott<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">25.647<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">140.367<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">18<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kyle Busch<\/td>\n<td 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In Friday&#8217;s opening practice for the Ticket Guardian 500 the driver of the No. 12 compiled the fastest laps beating out Keselowski and Kyle Larson. Qualifying at ISM Raceway will take place at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[969,560],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-19884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-ism-raceway","10":"tag-ryan-blaney"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19884","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=19884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19884"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}