LONG POND, Pa. -- None of the five Sprint Cup drivers entered in Saturday afternoon's NAPA Auto Parts 200 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal will turn a wheel on the track until the race begins.

An overlapping schedule of practice and qualifying between the Sprint Cup Series' Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono Raceway and the Nationwide Series event at Montreal prevents Nationwide point leader Clint Bowyer, defending series champion Carl Edwards, David Reutimann, David Ragan or Greg Biffle from participating in any Nationwide sessions before the 74-lap event on the 2.71-mile road course.

Friday is a dead issue, as the Sprint Cup cars practiced from 12-1:30 p.m. ET, then qualified at 3:40 p.m. The first Nationwide practice ended at 12:15 and Happy Hour ended at 3:25.

At Pocono on Saturday, the first practice is scheduled from 10-10:45 a.m., with Happy Hour on-track from 11:20 a.m.-12:20 p.m.

Clint Bowyer, who leads the Nationwide standings by 173 points over series regular Brad Keselowski, is most worried about his lack of practice, since he's never seen the circuit on the Ile Notre Dame. He said he was going to try to steal a pace-car ride to familiarize him with the course.

"Heck yeah, there's a concern, because I've never been there, never seen it," Bowyer said on Friday moments before practice, where his No. 07 Chevrolet ended up 13th. "I'm going to go over and meet with Kevin [Harvick, Friday night] because he won the race last year.

"I've just got to take it all in and realize our goal is to get as many points as we can and not let too many slip away. We've got to use our heads and stay on the racetrack, because nine times out of 10, if you stay on the racetrack you'll be in a good spot at the end.

"It's going to be a tough challenge. The first laps I'll ever turn on the track will be when we take the green flag so it's definitely nerve-wracking going in to that situation. It's just something we're going to have to tiptoe into."

Four of the five commuters are in the top five in Nationwide points, with Biffle the wild card in Roush Fenway Racing's No. 16 Ford in Montreal.

But Biffle, who was 17th in Friday's practice at Pocono and finished 20th in Montreal's inaugural Busch Series race a year ago under similar circumstances, when Casey Atwood substituted for him in practice, will have Roush Fenway development driver Colin Braun -- who won the pole for April's Nationwide road race in Mexico City -- warming up his car. (Continued)