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Happy Hour practice

for the Toyota/Save Mart 350 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Sonoma Raceway is over, after 85 scheduled minutes, the top-five, slowest and notes:
#42-Larson 94.389
#18-Busch 94.344
#88-Earnhardt Jr. 94.242
#47-Allmendinger 94.221
#1-McMurray 94.017
slowest: #55-Regan 87.541 & #15-O’Connell 89.371
most laps run: #42-Larson, 30
best 10 consecutive lap ave #42-Larson 91.817 (9 drivers)
notes: #77-Jones spun in turn 11 and hit the tire barrier, doing enough damage to warrant a back-up car. #72-Whitt had a oil cooler break in turn 2 and spun in to the grass, the team made repairs and Whitt got back on track. #23-Alon Day got off course but saved the car and drove back to the gargae, Day ended up 23rd fastest. Towards the end of practice, #24-Elliott spun off turn 10 and hit the concrete barrier hard, tearing most of the front of the car off, Elliott will go to a backup car.
See the fastest speeds, best 10 consecutive lap average, laps run on the Happy Hour Practice speeds page (pdf)