NASCAR practice times from Sonoma Raceway
Today, the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series unloads in Sonoma, California. Two rounds of NASCAR practice are on deck at Sonoma Raceway.
View full 2019 Sonoma practice results below.
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This is the 50th anniversary year for the California road course. In celebration, the carousel is open. For the first time since 1998, NASCAR stock cars will run a new layout at the track.
No driver in the field has run this section of the race track in a stock car. Jimmie Johnson is the only driver that has time on the layout but he did it in a Formula car 20 years ago.
Additionally, the manufacture simulators aren’t accurate for the new layout. As a result, most drivers are coming into this blind with very little work in the simulators. It’s a unique situation.
There’s only two rounds of practice on the track this weekend. Both of which sit ahead of Saturday qualifying.
Sonoma
Practice Report
Duration: 80 minutes
Lawnmowers are out early. Bubba Wallace has spun coming into the carousel on his warm up lap, no damage.
William Byron has gone off the track. However, he’s still the fastest so far.
Joey Logano is the first driver to make a pass exiting the carousel. He hugged the inside line and powered to the inside off the corner, completing the pass into turn 7. Logano jumps to the top of the board.
Halfway in Sonoma Raceway Practice: 1. Joey Logano (97.166); 2. Kyle Larson (97.380); 3. Jimmie Johnson (97.643); 4. William Byron (97.685); 5. David Ragan (97.924); 6. Aric Almirola (97.931); 7. Paul Menard (97.998); 8. Kyle Busch (98.026); 9. Ryan Blaney (98.040); 10. Alex Bowman (98.186);
“As soon as I turn to the right it steps out,” Martin Truex Jr says as he heads into the new section of the layout.
30 minutes remain in practice, Austin Dillon has clipped the inside tire barriers as he rolled through turn 11. He’s collected moderate damage from the numbers on the door to the left rear fender.
Sonoma is known to eat up tires. Kyle Larson is the best example of that in this session. He ran a single run of 17 laps and lost 3.5 seconds from the beginning to the end of the run.
In the closing seconds of practice, Martin Truex Jr and Ryan Blaney both jump to the top of the board. They push Buescher back to the 3rd.
Martin Truex Jr wins the opening round of Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice!
View full 2019 Sonoma Raceway practice results below.
Sonoma
Practice Results
June 21, 2019
Pos | Driver | Average Speed
1. Martin Truex Jr
95.168
2. Ryan Blaney
95.299
3. Chris Buescher
95.454
4. Jimmie Johnson
95.460
5. Michael McDowell
95.723
6. Alex Bowman
95.736
7. Clint Bowyer
95.879
8. Kyle Busch
96.170
9. Daniel Suarez
96.403
10. David Ragan
96.585
11. Paul Menard
97.053
12. Joey Logano
97.166
13. Kyle Larson
97.380
14. William Byron
97.685
15. Aric Almirola
97.924
16. Corey LaJoie
98.166
17. Kurt Busch
98.189
18. Ricky Stenhouse Jr
98.311
19. Brad Keselowski
98.466
20. Chase Elliott
98.472
21. Denny Hamlin
98.489
22. Matt DiBenedetto
98.747
23. Kevin Harvick
98.826
24. Ty Dillon
98.879
25. Erik Jones
98.957
26. Ryan Preece
98.967
27. Ryan Newman
98.975
28. Parker Kligerman
99.033
29. Matt Tifft
99.155
30. Daniel Hemric
99.565
31. Bubba Wallace
99.988
32. Justin Haley
100.066
33. Austin Dillon
100.139
34. Landon Cassill
100.546
35. JJ Yaley
101.019
36. Reed Sorenson
101.763
37. Cody Ware
102.036
38. #15
103.699
