NASCAR practice results from Texas Motor Speedway
NASCAR returns to the 1.5-mile oval in Fort Worth, TX. Texas Motor Speedway hosts this weekends round of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs.
View full 2019 Texas practice results below.
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John Hunter Nemechek is making his first MENCS start this weekend. Matt Tifft is out after suffering a seizure ahead of the race last weekend.
Related: Matt Tifft provides medical update after suffering a seizure at Martinsville
The track has applied PJ1 once again. It’s laid down on the outer grooves of the racing surface.
Texas
Practice – Report
Duration: 50 minutes
The track is green. Half of the field rolls out all at once.
The field is glued to the bottom lane early. That’s the fastest way around plus it takes some heat to activate the PJ1 in the higher grooves.
Drivers are lifting to about half throttle into turn one. They are nearly wide open into turn three.
“It starts ricocheting off turn four,” Denny Hamlin says of his car after his first run. He’s referring to the front splitter.
Hamlin is back out. He jumps from 12th to 3rd on the board.
Halfway
Clint Bowyer is quickest at the halway point in this session. Stewart-Haas Racing holds three of the top four.
Halfway in Texas Motor Speedway Practice: 1. Clint Bowyer (28.620); 2. Aric Almirola (28.801); 3. Denny Hamlin (28.862); 4. Kevin Harvick (28.899); 5. Kyle Busch (28.967); 6. Kurt Busch (28.988); 7. Kyle Larson (29.019); 8. Chris Buescher (29.022); 9. William Byron (29.034); 10. Jimmie Johnson (29.036);
We’re not seeing a lot of group runs in this session. A few teams are sending their cars out in pairs of two, but no pack practice runs just yet.
5 minutes remain, Denny Hamlin continues to climb the times sheet. He started the first run, well off. The team has just tuned on the machine and brought him to 2nd on the board.
2 minutes remain, Kyle Larson is running all over Harvick to test the dirty air balance. He’s rolling good and holding the bottom to avoid a loss of downforce. But, Harvick gets loose ahead of him, lifts and Larson loses the nose as well as he closes closer to the car ahead.
Clint Bowyer holds on to win Texas practice!
View full Texas practice times for the NASCAR Cup Series below.
Texas Motor Speedway
Practice Results
November 1, 2019
NASCAR Cup Series
Session Start: 3:05pm ET
Pos | Driver | Best Time
1. Clint Bowyer
28.620
2. Kurt Busch
28.636
3. Denny Hamlin
28.674
4. Ricky Stenhouse Jr
28.790
5. Erik Jones
28.791
6. Aric Almirola
28.801
7. Alex Bowman
28.808
8. Martin Truex Jr
28.829
9. Jimmie Johnson
28.831
10. Kevin Harvick
28.873
11. William Byron
28.889
12. Kyle Busch
28.890
13. Kyle Larson
28.913
14. Ryan Newman
28.951
15. Joey Logano
28.958
16. Chris Buescher
28.963
17. Paul Menard
28.970
18. Matt DiBenedetto
28.973
19. Daniel Suarez
28.998
20. Ryan Preece
29.007
21. Ty Dillon
29.029
22. Austin Dillon
29.068
23. Ryan Blaney
29.085
24. Brad Keselowski
29.094
25. Daniel Hemric
29.113
26. Chase Elliott
29.143
27. Bubba Wallace
29.218
28. Michael McDowell
29.259
29. John Hunter Nemechek
29.267
30. Parker Kligerman
29.312
31. David Ragan
29.383
32. Corey LaJoie
29.397
33. Ross Chastain
29.642
34. JJ Yeley
29.697
35. Landon Cassill
29.809
36. Garrett Smithley
29.930
37. Quin Houff
29.993
38. Josh Bilicki
30.013
39. Joe Nemechek
30.308
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