for the Bojangles’ Southern 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway is over after 85 scheduled minutes, the top-five, slowest and notes:
#48-Johnson 176.025
#11-Hamlin 175.060
#21-Blaney 174.711
#42-Larson 174.544
#31-Newman 174.519
Best 10 consecutive lap ave (of 29 drivers) #48-Johnson 173.389
slowest: #98-Whitt 164.101 & #32-Earnhardt 162.975. No speed: #55-Sorenson.
most laps run: #88-Gordon, 69; #41-Busch, 64.
Notes: #2-Keselowski and #18-Busch were among the drivers to get up into the outer wall and get a ‘Darlington Stripe’.
Final practice is scheduled for 1:30-2:50pm/et and will be showing on NBCSN.
See fastest speeds, laps run and best 10 consecutive lap ave on the Darlington Practice 1 speeds page (pdf).
