Practice report

NASCAR Cup Charlotte

Austin Dillon and Chevrolet lead Coke 600 practice

Austin Dillon, a previous winner of the Coca-Cola 600, led the way in Friday’s lone NASCAR Cup Series practice session at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Jim Utter

Edited: May 29, 2021, 12:59 AM

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The 50-minute session also saw Chevrolets sweep the top four positions in single-car runs and eight of the top-10.

Erik Jones led the session most of the way until Kyle Larson jumped to the top with seven minutes remaining and Dillon grabbed the top spot with an average speed of 180.934 mph with two minutes to go.

Alex Bowman ended up second-fastest (180.807 mph), posting his best speed in the final minutes; Larson was third (180.807 mph); Jones ended up fourth (180.318 mph); and Joey Logano fifth (180.096 mph).

Rounding out the top-10 were Daniel Suarez, Tyler Reddick, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., William Byron and Kyle Busch.

There were no on-track incidents during the session.

Kyle Busch (46) completed the most laps.

Larson posted the fastest average lap speed (179.006 mph) among those drivers that ran at least 10 consecutive laps. Byron and Reddick were second and third, respectively.

Cla # Driver Manufacturer Laps Time Gap Interval Mph 1 3 United States Austin Dillon Chevrolet 35 29.845 180.935 2 48 Alex Bowman Chevrolet 25 29.861 0.016 0.016 180.838 3 5 Kyle Larson Chevrolet 22 29.866 0.021 0.005 180.808 4 43 Erik Jones Chevrolet 13 29.947 0.102 0.081 180.319 5 22 Joey Logano Ford 38 29.984 0.139 0.037 180.096 6 99 Mexico Daniel Suarez Chevrolet 36 29.991 0.146 0.007 180.054 7 8 United States Tyler Reddick Chevrolet 42 30.002 0.157 0.011 179.988 8 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Chevrolet 21 30.015 0.170 0.013 179.910 9 24 William Byron Chevrolet 34 30.053 0.208 0.038 179.683 10 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 46 30.114 0.269 0.061 179.319 11 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 37 30.137 0.292 0.023 179.182 12 9 United States Chase Elliott Chevrolet 41 30.153 0.308 0.016 179.087 13 6 Ryan Newman Ford 40 30.180 0.335 0.027 178.926 14 19 Martin Truex Jr. Toyota 43 30.203 0.358 0.023 178.790 15 20 Christopher Bell Toyota 31 30.211 0.366 0.008 178.743 16 21 Matt DiBenedetto Ford 38 30.223 0.378 0.012 178.672 17 4 United States Kevin Harvick Ford 43 30.223 0.378 0.000 178.672 18 23 Bubba Wallace Toyota 24 30.253 0.408 0.030 178.495 19 12 Ryan Blaney Ford 33 30.259 0.414 0.006 178.459 20 1 Kurt Busch Chevrolet 44 30.265 0.420 0.006 178.424 21 41 Cole Custer Ford 28 30.269 0.424 0.004 178.400 22 2 United States Brad Keselowski Ford 41 30.274 0.429 0.005 178.371 23 34 Michael McDowell Ford 37 30.287 0.442 0.013 178.294 24 10 Aric Almirola Ford 23 30.296 0.451 0.009 178.241 25 42 Ross Chastain Chevrolet 42 30.311 0.466 0.015 178.153 26 14 Chase Briscoe Ford 35 30.336 0.491 0.025 178.006 27 17 United States Chris Buescher Ford 35 30.444 0.599 0.108 177.375 28 7 Corey Lajoie Chevrolet 21 30.454 0.609 0.010 177.317 29 38 Anthony Alfredo Ford 41 30.455 0.610 0.001 177.311 30 77 Justin Haley Chevrolet 20 30.464 0.619 0.009 177.258 31 37 Ryan Preece Chevrolet 25 30.465 0.620 0.001 177.253 32 78 United States B.J. McLeod Ford 9 30.878 1.033 0.413 174.882 33 53 Cody Ware Ford 7 30.894 1.049 0.016 174.791 34 00 Quin Houff Chevrolet 11 30.999 1.154 0.105 174.199 35 51 Garrett Smithley Chevrolet 10 31.489 1.644 0.490 171.488 36 52 Josh Bilicki Ford 18 31.737 1.892 0.248 170.148 37 15 Australia James Davison Chevrolet 25 31.860 2.015 0.123 169.492 38 66 United States David Starr Ford 29 32.164 2.319 0.304 167.890

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