{"id":20163,"date":"2019-03-30T12:50:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T16:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=20163"},"modified":"2019-03-30T12:50:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T16:50:16","slug":"denny-hamlin-fastest-in-final-cup-practice-at-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/03\/30\/denny-hamlin-fastest-in-final-cup-practice-at-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin fastest in final Cup practice at Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Denny Hamlin was the fastest in Saturday’s Final Practice ahead of Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas.<\/p>\n

After mist affected the early morning track activities, Xfinity Series qualifying and MENCS Final Practice for the O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 took place.<\/p>\n

FOX and PRN will have coverage of Sunday’s race beginning at 3 pm ET. Jimmie Johnson claimed the pole<\/a> on Friday in qualifying.<\/p>\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\n\n
RaceRank<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\nDriver<\/td>\nBestLapTime<\/td>\nBestSpeed<\/td>\nBestLap<\/td>\nLaps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\n11<\/td>\nDenny Hamlin<\/td>\n28.879<\/td>\n186.987<\/td>\n24<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n18<\/td>\nKyle Busch<\/td>\n28.979<\/td>\n186.342<\/td>\n24<\/td>\n31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n12<\/td>\nRyan Blaney<\/td>\n28.989<\/td>\n186.278<\/td>\n23<\/td>\n32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\n1<\/td>\nKurt Busch<\/td>\n29.018<\/td>\n186.091<\/td>\n30<\/td>\n41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n48<\/td>\nJimmie Johnson<\/td>\n29.025<\/td>\n186.047<\/td>\n29<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\n8<\/td>\nDaniel Hemric #<\/td>\n29.059<\/td>\n185.829<\/td>\n28<\/td>\n39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\n42<\/td>\nKyle Larson<\/td>\n29.07<\/td>\n185.759<\/td>\n34<\/td>\n47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\n21<\/td>\nPaul Menard<\/td>\n29.074<\/td>\n185.733<\/td>\n34<\/td>\n45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\n4<\/td>\nKevin Harvick<\/td>\n29.093<\/td>\n185.612<\/td>\n38<\/td>\n54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\n43<\/td>\nBubba Wallace<\/td>\n29.1<\/td>\n185.567<\/td>\n36<\/td>\n52<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\n20<\/td>\nErik Jones<\/td>\n29.134<\/td>\n185.35<\/td>\n22<\/td>\n32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\n41<\/td>\nDaniel Suarez<\/td>\n29.137<\/td>\n185.331<\/td>\n21<\/td>\n48<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\n47<\/td>\nRyan Preece #<\/td>\n29.154<\/td>\n185.223<\/td>\n28<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\n9<\/td>\nChase Elliott<\/td>\n29.17<\/td>\n185.122<\/td>\n30<\/td>\n36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\n10<\/td>\nAric Almirola<\/td>\n29.182<\/td>\n185.046<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\n14<\/td>\nClint Bowyer<\/td>\n29.19<\/td>\n184.995<\/td>\n29<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>\n13<\/td>\nTy Dillon<\/td>\n29.191<\/td>\n184.989<\/td>\n38<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>\n22<\/td>\nJoey Logano<\/td>\n29.22<\/td>\n184.805<\/td>\n39<\/td>\n47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>\n2<\/td>\nBrad Keselowski<\/td>\n29.248<\/td>\n184.628<\/td>\n28<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\n24<\/td>\nWilliam Byron<\/td>\n29.256<\/td>\n184.578<\/td>\n26<\/td>\n37<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21<\/td>\n17<\/td>\nRicky Stenhouse Jr.<\/td>\n29.26<\/td>\n184.552<\/td>\n17<\/td>\n41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22<\/td>\n88<\/td>\nAlex Bowman<\/td>\n29.26<\/td>\n184.552<\/td>\n24<\/td>\n30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23<\/td>\n*96<\/td>\nParker Kligerman(i)<\/td>\n29.271<\/td>\n184.483<\/td>\n26<\/td>\n34<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24<\/td>\n19<\/td>\nMartin Truex Jr.<\/td>\n29.272<\/td>\n184.477<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n37<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25<\/td>\n37<\/td>\nChris Buescher<\/td>\n29.273<\/td>\n184.47<\/td>\n26<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26<\/td>\n38<\/td>\nDavid Ragan<\/td>\n29.277<\/td>\n184.445<\/td>\n32<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27<\/td>\n36<\/td>\nMatt Tifft #<\/td>\n29.323<\/td>\n184.156<\/td>\n25<\/td>\n31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28<\/td>\n3<\/td>\nAustin Dillon<\/td>\n29.326<\/td>\n184.137<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29<\/td>\n34<\/td>\nMichael McDowell<\/td>\n29.336<\/td>\n184.074<\/td>\n31<\/td>\n41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30<\/td>\n6<\/td>\nRyan Newman<\/td>\n29.391<\/td>\n183.73<\/td>\n36<\/td>\n38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
31<\/td>\n95<\/td>\nMatt DiBenedetto<\/td>\n29.394<\/td>\n183.711<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
32<\/td>\n32<\/td>\nCorey LaJoie<\/td>\n29.406<\/td>\n183.636<\/td>\n21<\/td>\n26<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
33<\/td>\n15<\/td>\nRoss Chastain(i)<\/td>\n29.754<\/td>\n181.488<\/td>\n28<\/td>\n28<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
34<\/td>\n00<\/td>\nLandon Cassill<\/td>\n29.862<\/td>\n180.832<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
35<\/td>\n52<\/td>\nBayley Currey(i)<\/td>\n29.933<\/td>\n180.403<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
36<\/td>\n51<\/td>\nBJ McLeod(i)<\/td>\n30.064<\/td>\n179.617<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
37<\/td>\n*27<\/td>\nReed Sorenson<\/td>\n30.112<\/td>\n179.33<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
38<\/td>\n77<\/td>\nGarrett Smithley(i)<\/td>\n30.525<\/td>\n176.904<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
39<\/td>\n*66<\/td>\nTimmy Hill(i)<\/td>\n31.028<\/td>\n174.036<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Denny Hamlin was the fastest in Saturday’s Final Practice ahead of Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas. After mist affected the early morning track activities, Xfinity Series qualifying and MENCS Final Practice for the O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 took place. FOX and PRN will have coverage of Sunday’s race beginning at 3 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[194,617],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-20163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-denny-hamlin","10":"tag-texas-motor-speedway"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20163"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}