{"id":20320,"date":"2019-04-12T11:58:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T15:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=20320"},"modified":"2019-04-12T12:02:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T16:02:10","slug":"kyle-larson-fastest-in-opening-cup-practice-at-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/04\/12\/kyle-larson-fastest-in-opening-cup-practice-at-richmond\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Larson fastest in opening Cup practice at Richmond"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kyle Larson turned in the fastest lap in the opening practice for Saturday’s Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond Raceway.<\/p>\n

Larson, driving his No. 42 Chevrolet Camaro, put down a lap of 22.815 besting the time of Virginia-native Denny Hamlin by 0.004 seconds. A few surprise names were atop the leaderboard with Chris Buescher third and David Ragan fifth. Kyle Busch was fourth fastest.<\/p>\n

Joey Gase may have the most talked about\/photographed car this week as he drives the No. 66 Toyota honoring former NASCAR artist Sam Bass<\/a>. He was 36th fastest of 37 cars.<\/p>\n

The MENCS will qualify later Friday and run the Toyota Owners 400 on Saturday at 7:30 pm ET.<\/p>\n

MENCS Opening Practice Speeds Richmond<\/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\n
RaceRank<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\nDriver<\/td>\nBestLapTime<\/td>\nBestSpeed<\/td>\nBestLap<\/td>\nLaps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\n42<\/td>\nKyle Larson<\/td>\n22.185<\/td>\n121.704<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n11<\/td>\nDenny Hamlin<\/td>\n22.189<\/td>\n121.682<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n37<\/td>\nChris Buescher<\/td>\n22.197<\/td>\n121.638<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\n18<\/td>\nKyle Busch<\/td>\n22.202<\/td>\n121.611<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n38<\/td>\nDavid Ragan<\/td>\n22.219<\/td>\n121.518<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\n41<\/td>\nDaniel Suarez<\/td>\n22.224<\/td>\n121.49<\/td>\n37<\/td>\n41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\n19<\/td>\nMartin Truex Jr<\/td>\n22.232<\/td>\n121.447<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n29<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\n1<\/td>\nKurt Busch<\/td>\n22.246<\/td>\n121.37<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\n4<\/td>\nKevin Harvick<\/td>\n22.26<\/td>\n121.294<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n28<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\n22<\/td>\nJoey Logano<\/td>\n22.274<\/td>\n121.218<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\n12<\/td>\nRyan Blaney<\/td>\n22.285<\/td>\n121.158<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\n20<\/td>\nErik Jones<\/td>\n22.366<\/td>\n120.719<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n51<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\n10<\/td>\nAric Almirola<\/td>\n22.372<\/td>\n120.687<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\n47<\/td>\nRyan Preece #<\/td>\n22.395<\/td>\n120.563<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n37<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\n88<\/td>\nAlex Bowman<\/td>\n22.42<\/td>\n120.428<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\n13<\/td>\nTy Dillon<\/td>\n22.433<\/td>\n120.358<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n58<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>\n43<\/td>\nBubba Wallace<\/td>\n22.441<\/td>\n120.315<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n37<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>\n34<\/td>\nMichael McDowell<\/td>\n22.453<\/td>\n120.251<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n51<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>\n21<\/td>\nPaul Menard<\/td>\n22.454<\/td>\n120.246<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\n24<\/td>\nWilliam Byron<\/td>\n22.46<\/td>\n120.214<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21<\/td>\n95<\/td>\nMatt DiBenedetto<\/td>\n22.464<\/td>\n120.192<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22<\/td>\n2<\/td>\nBrad Keselowski<\/td>\n22.47<\/td>\n120.16<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23<\/td>\n3<\/td>\nAustin Dillon<\/td>\n22.473<\/td>\n120.144<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n53<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24<\/td>\n9<\/td>\nChase Elliott<\/td>\n22.484<\/td>\n120.085<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n68<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25<\/td>\n36<\/td>\nMatt Tifft #<\/td>\n22.538<\/td>\n119.798<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26<\/td>\n17<\/td>\nRicky Stenhouse Jr<\/td>\n22.538<\/td>\n119.798<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n59<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27<\/td>\n6<\/td>\nRyan Newman<\/td>\n22.551<\/td>\n119.729<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n28<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28<\/td>\n48<\/td>\nJimmie Johnson<\/td>\n22.644<\/td>\n119.237<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29<\/td>\n00<\/td>\nLandon Cassill<\/td>\n22.649<\/td>\n119.211<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30<\/td>\n8<\/td>\nDaniel Hemric #<\/td>\n22.674<\/td>\n119.079<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n48<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
31<\/td>\n14<\/td>\nClint Bowyer<\/td>\n22.698<\/td>\n118.953<\/td>\n22<\/td>\n38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
32<\/td>\n15<\/td>\nRoss Chastain(i)<\/td>\n22.719<\/td>\n118.843<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n34<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
33<\/td>\n32<\/td>\nCorey LaJoie<\/td>\n22.912<\/td>\n117.842<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
34<\/td>\n51<\/td>\nJeb Burton(i)<\/td>\n23.153<\/td>\n116.616<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
35<\/td>\n52<\/td>\nBayley Currey(i)<\/td>\n23.192<\/td>\n116.419<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
36<\/td>\n*66<\/td>\nJoey Gase(i)<\/td>\n23.535<\/td>\n114.723<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
37<\/td>\n77<\/td>\nQuin Houff<\/td>\n23.568<\/td>\n114.562<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kyle Larson turned in the fastest lap in the opening practice for Saturday’s Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond Raceway. Larson, driving his No. 42 Chevrolet Camaro, put down a lap of 22.815 besting the time of Virginia-native Denny Hamlin by 0.004 seconds. A few surprise names were atop the leaderboard with Chris Buescher third and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[773,972],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-20320","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-larson","10":"tag-richmond-raceway"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20320","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=20320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20320"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}