for the Finger Lakes 355 Sprint Cup Series race at Watkins Glen International is over, after approx 60 scheduled minutes, the top-five, slowest, notes:
#51-Busch 125.055
#39-Newman 124.406
#2-Keselowski 124.126
#14-Stewart 124.120
#24-Gordon 124.044
slowest: #30-Long 117.743 & #19-Cook 119.645
notes: the first practice was rained out so this practice will set the qualifying order. A Saturday morning Sprint Cup practice has been added, scheduled to run 8:00-9:25am/et, no word yet on any TV coverage.
Qualifying is scheduled for 11:40am/et on Saturday, August 11th and to be aired on ESPN2.
#31-Burton got his backup out and was up to speed. #11-Hamlin got his backup out and it started smoking, so he took it back to the garage. #30-Long lost an engine just after midway, leaving oil on the track, #11-Hamlin then wrecked and #31-Burton ran into the #11, the #11 and #31 will both go to backup cars. #18-Busch spun out off turn 5. #93-Kvapil spun out in turn one, was was able to drive on with no damage.
See speeds and laps run on the Watkins Glen practice 1 speeds page (pdf).(8-10-2012)
