With rain anticipated all day Saturday, Friday’s 50-minute session was possible the one alternative for groups to get on monitor previous to Sunday’s 500, which might additionally see a climate delay till Monday.
Toyotas, which gained each of Thursday evening’s 150-mile qualifying races, dominated Friday’s observe with Hamlin topping the pace chart at 197.476 mph.
He was adopted by Erik Jones (197.468 mph) and Christopher Bell (197.429 mph) as Toyotas claimed the highest eight speeds.
Ty Gibbs was fourth fast and John Hunter Nemechek rounded out the highest 5.
Finishing the highest 10 in common single automotive lap speeds have been Tyler Reddick, Jimmie Johnson, Bubba Wallace, Michael McDowell and Austin Cindric.
McDowell was the highest Ford driver whereas Austin Dillon had the quickest Chevrolet and was fifteenth fast.
RFK Racing’s Chris Buescher didn’t take part in Friday’s observe as he returned to North Carolina to be together with his spouse, Emma, who was anticipating the couple’s second youngster.
David Ragan, who’s driving a 3rd entry for RFK, ran some laps in Buescher’s No. 17 Ford along with his personal No. 60 Ford. Buescher is anticipated to be again on the monitor on Sunday morning.
Anthony Alfredo, who’s driving the No. 62 for Beard Motorsports, was the one automotive to not take a lap in observe.
Amongst these drivers who ran no less than 10 consecutive laps, Ryan Blaney had the quickest common lap pace (192.030 mph) adopted by Cindric and Harrison Burton.
