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.
See fastest speeds, laps run, average speeds on my Practice Speeds Page.(5-7-2010)
