PRACTICE NOTES Have no way of getting and have not seen ANY site that does 10-15 laps averages or showing what lap is the slowest. Sometimes the NASCAR Leaderboard Average speeds are posted here, if they are accurate or they are combined with NASCAR Media speeds to get as much info posted as possible. Example if a driver slows down considerably on a lap [wreck or debris on the track], the average laps gets messed up and may not be posted. What you see posted is the best that could be found, no need to email and ask for other practice stats.

Happy Hour (final) practice: for the Showtime Southern 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway is over after 90 minutes. The top 5 and some notes:
#1-McMurray 178.064
#11-Hamlin 177.243
#2-Busch 177.0339
#39-Newman 176.835
#42-Montoya 176.790
slowest: #99-Edwards 170.614 & #37-Conway 169.345.
incidents: #16-Biffle hit the wall in turn 4 early and will go to a backup. #2-Busch spun off turn 4 but stayed out of the wall. #87-Nemechek tore up his car coming off turn 4 and sliding into the inside retaining wall. He'll pull out the backup. 35 mintues in, #36-Mears got loose off turn 2, hit the wall and slid down into the inside retaining wall. He will also need a backup. #18-Busch hit the wall in 4 midway through the session. The team will try to repair the car. #47-Ambrose hit the right side of his car late in the session and will go to a backup.(5-7-2010)

Happy Hour practice rank for the non top-35 drivers at Darlington:
if things stay the same, these eight drivers would make the race:
#66-Dave Blaney, 23rd fastest
#09-Mike Bliss, 24th
#55-Michael McDowell, 26th
#13-Max Papis, 27th
#26-David Stremme, 28th
#38-David Gilliland, 30th
#32-Reed Sorenson, 34th
#46-J.J. Yeley, 46th
these drivers would miss the race if the order stayed the same:
#64-Todd Bodine, 39th
#36-Casey Mears, 41st
#87-Joe Nemechek, 44th
(5-7-2010)

Friday's first practice: for the Showtime Southern 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway is over after 90 minutes. The top 5 and some notes:
#43-Allmendinger 173.271
#66-Blaney 173.185
#09-Bliss 172.954
#55-McDowell 172.681
#11-Hamlin 172.566
slowest: #7-Gordon 167.665 & #37-Conway 166.034
Darlington stripes: #88-Earnhardt Jr got one on his second lap out on the track and the crew brought out the backup car. #34-Kvapil scraped the wall shortly thereafter, followed by #20-Joey Logano. #42-Montoya also make slight contact. #33-Bowyer hit the turn 2 wall an hour into the session and will go to a backup. #88-Earnhardt, Jr. then got back into the wall with 15 minutes remaning in the session but there was just minor damage. #82-Speed made contact with turn 4 late. Backup car for him as well. #1-McMurray also pancaked the car in turn 4 with just minutes remaining.(5-7-2010)

Darlington practice rank for the non top-35 drivers:
if things stay the same, these eight drivers would make the race:
#66-Dave Blaney, 2nd fastest
#09-Mike Bliss, 3rd
#55-Michael McDowell, 4th
#87-Joe Nemechek, 18th
#64-Todd Bodine, 21st
#36-Casey Mears, 33rd
#26-David Stremme, 40th
#38-David Gilliland, 41st
these drivers would miss the race if the order stayed the same:
#32-Reed Sorenson, 42nd
#46-J.J. Yeley, 43rd
#13-Max Papis, 44th
(5-7-2010)