Charlotte Roval practice times for the NASCAR Xfinity Series on Thursday, September 27, 2018
The Charlotte Roval is here!
Today, the NASCAR Xfinity Series entered Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. For the first time, drivers were on hand for an official practice session at NASCAR’s newest race track, The Roval.
View 2018 Roval Xfinity Series practice times below.
Today’s session on the new road course was optional. However, 27 teams entered the grounds with anticipation of turning laps on the 2.4 mile, 18 turn layout. 25 of those drivers actually completed a lap.
At sessions end, Austin Cindric sat at the top of the board with a practice time of 79.998. He was nearly a full second quicker than the second place runner of Austin Cindric.
Ross Chastain turned 3 laps today. He was at the bottom of the board with a 90.707. The race leader was over 10 second quicker. Though, it’s a new track and 3 laps isn’t near enough time to learn a new race track. But, I still think it’s interesting to see that large of a gap between the front and the back of the field.
The cars will return to the new NASCAR track tomorrow.
View 2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series practice times from the Charlotte Roval below.
Roval Xfinity Practice Times
September 27, 2018
Pos | Driver | Laps
1. Austin Cindric
79.998 | 11
2. Daniel Hemric
80.871 | 6
3. Ryan Truex
81.156 | 14
4. Ryan Preece
81.207 | 15
5. Justin Marks
81.250 | 14
6. Matt Tifft
81.346 | 15
7. Elliott Sadler
81.569 | 13
8. Brendan Gaughan
81.590 | 15
9. Justin Allgaier
81.652 | 9
10. Alex Labbe
81.680 | 2
11. Tyler Reddick
81.693 | 17
12. Cole Custer
81.759 | 11
13. Ty Majeski
81.818 | 11
14. Christopher Bell
81.910 | 9
15. Andy Lally
81.965 | 6
16. Ryan Reed
82.847 | 21
17. Kaz Grala
82.917 | 4
18. Chase Briscoe
82.935 | 12
19. Jeremy Clements
83.037 | 8
20. Michael Annett
83.045 | 20
21. Brandon Jones
84.759 | 7
22. Joey Gase
85.276 | 6
23. John Jackson
86.289 | 3
24. David Starr
88.266 | 4
25. Ross Chastain
90.707 | 3
26. Spencer Gallagher
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27. Lawson Aschenbach
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