{"id":20584,"date":"2019-05-03T12:26:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T16:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=20584"},"modified":"2019-05-03T12:26:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T16:26:30","slug":"kurt-busch-larson-fastest-in-first-cup-practice-at-dover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/05\/03\/kurt-busch-larson-fastest-in-first-cup-practice-at-dover\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Busch, Larson fastest in first Cup practice at Dover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20585\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/05\/busch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/05\/busch.jpg 625w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/05\/busch-594x323.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/05\/busch-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kurt Busch and his Ganassi teammate Kyle Larson were atop the leaderboard following Friday&#8217;s opening practice session at Dover International Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>Busch and numerous drivers topped the track record which is expected to fall in qualifying for the Gander RV 400 later today.<\/p>\n<p>The race will take place on Sunday airing on FS1 and MRN at 2:00 pm ET.<\/p>\n<h2>MENCS Opening Practice Dover<\/h2>\n<table width=\"562\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\" width=\"82\">1<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\" width=\"41\">1<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\" width=\"127\">Kurt Busch<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\" width=\"102\">21.372<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\" width=\"89\">168.445<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\" width=\"71\">9<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\" width=\"50\">11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">42<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kyle Larson<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">21.415<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">168.106<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kevin Harvick<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">21.435<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">167.95<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">24<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">William Byron<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">21.474<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">167.645<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">12<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ryan Blaney<\/td>\n<td 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Busch and numerous drivers topped the track record which is expected to fall in qualifying for the Gander RV 400 later today. The race will take place on Sunday airing on FS1 and MRN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[202,789,372,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-20584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-nascar-topstory","9":"category-news","10":"tag-dover-international-speedway","11":"tag-front","12":"tag-kurt-busch","13":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20584","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=20584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20584"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}