The first day [of two] of testing at Bristol Motor Speedway had 61 cars with 51 drivers/teams testing. #11B-Denny Hamlin was fastest in the morning session with a speed of 122.170mph [the track record is 128.074mph held bt Ryan Newman set in March 2003] followed by #16B-Biffle, #17A-Kenseth, #48A-Johnson and #24A-Gordon. Slowest driver was #70A-Sauter at 114.371. Incident: #42-Montoya spun around but didn’t hit anything. Also..with the threat of rain on Thursday, NASCAR may extend testing into Wednesday evening and run Thursday until the rain comes. See my Bristol Testing page for the speeds, news and images.(2-28-2007)
