Top Five Fastest Drivers In Pennsylvania 400 Happy Hour Driver Speeds (MPH) Dale Earnhardt Jr. 177.441 Matt Kenseth 176.974 Greg Biffle 176.724 Kyle Busch 176.564 Carl Edwards 176.391 Pocono Happy Hour Ten Lap Averages Driver Speeds (MPH) Jimmie Johnson 172.826 Mark Martin 172.546 Ryan Newman 171.761 David Ragan 168.967 (Only 4 Drivers Ran 10 Consecutive [...]
The schedule this weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was a little different than normal, probably due to the fact that the Nationwide Series will race on the same track for the first time. There were two practice sessions on Saturday morning and qualifying is later this afternoon on ESPN (2:00 pm Eastern). It’s real hard [...]
Practice went from irrelevant last weekend in Daytona to very important here at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. This is a 1.0-mile short track and it’s going to take a fast and good-handling car to win on Sunday, or even get to the front if you had a bad qualifying run. By the way, the full starting lineup [...]
As I say every time the Sprint Cup Series visits a restrictor plate tracks, practice times are pretty much worthless and qualifying is even more useless. With that being said, I still post these average speeds because I like to use them as a “tiebreaker” of sorts if I am stuck between two drivers. Instead [...]
The track was very hot and very slick during practice on Friday, and it’s going to be hot when the starting lineup is set later on as well. I think those that head out late then will have an advantage because they will have more grip, and as I said earlier this week in my [...]
Practice #2 Overall Speeds Rank Driver MPH Lap Speed 1 Jeff Gordon 94.312 2 Marcos Ambrose 93.381 3 AJ Allmendinger 93.342 4 Juan Pablo Montoya 93.287 5 Brad Keselowski 93.244 Link to more drivers overall speeds Practice #2 Ten Lap Average Speeds Rank Driver Ten Lap MPH Average 1 Brad Keselowski 91.866 2 Paul Menard [...]
Another week, another repaved track. The schedule this weekend was very similar to the one that we saw a week ago in Pocono. There were first two test sessions on Thursday, and those speeds can be found here: AM Session — PM Session. And then on Friday, the official practices were held at the “new” [...]
As you probably know by now, Pocono Raceway was repaved and now has much more grip–and thus speed–than the last time we were here in 2011. Because of this, test sessions were open for teams to test out the “new” track on Wednesday and Thursday. Those speeds can be found here: Wednesday Session — Thursday [...]
Well, except for the time that the few rain drops were falling at the beginning of first practice, the drivers pretty much got the entire scheduled three hours of practice time on Friday at Dover. As to be expected, DW and company kept giving credit to the “vortex theory,” although people that actually understand the [...]
This week’s race at Charlotte Motor Speedway is the longest race of the season at 600 miles, and many teams will have a limit on how many laps they allow the drivers to run in practice. Luckily for you, I created a “Lap Logger” page that lists all the drivers in order depending on how [...]
All pre-race, on-track activity was held on Friday. Both practice sessions were held in the afternoon and qualifying is going on as I type this up. Where you start is really important at Darlington, so make sure you keep that in mind. All of these speeds were ran during the afternoon and the race is [...]
The Pack Will Be Back At Talladega I generally take the superspeedway weeks off from posting anything, but for anyone that may want to use these numbers, this post is for you. I find practice speeds somewhat worthless–and qualifying completely worthless–but sometimes I use these as a “tiebreaker” if I can’t pick between a couple [...]
Well, this week the practice speeds may not be as helpful as we would like. The Capital City 400 is set to start around 7:45 pm on Saturday night, and the two practice sessions were held in the heat of the afternoon (first practice started at noon, Happy Hour at 2:30). Qualifying will be held [...]
This weekend at Kansas, the practice schedule was a little more rational than the one in Texas last week. There were two practice sessions on Friday afternoon. The first was one hour and 20 minutes long and Happy Hour was an hour and a half. There were many cars that sandbagged in first practice to [...]
