Hemric, Suarez, Jones and Newman placed second through fifth
RELATED: Full practice results
Cameron Hayley topped the lone NASCAR Camping World Truck Series practice session at Kansas Speedway on Thursday afternoon.
Hayley, a Sunoco Rookie of the Year contender, made the fastest lap late in the 90-minute session with a speed of 175.798 mph.
Another rookie, Daniel Hemric was second in the session with a speed of 175.558 mph. Hemric has made six career Truck Series starts with three coming this year in the No. 14 Chevrolet.
A pair of Kyle Busch Motorsports teammates took third and fourth place in the session. Daniel Suarez (175.393 mph) and Erik Jones (175.279 mph) were at the top of the speed chart for most of practice but slipped back near the end of the session.
The Kansas race will be Suarez’s fifth career Camping World Truck Series start and his fourth this season. He has three top-10 finishes in his three starts so far in 2015. Jones, a Sunoco Rookie of the Year contender, has had three top-seven finishes to open the season and will also be making his first Sprint Cup Series start this weekend.
Sprint Cup Series veteran Ryan Newman, who is making his first Truck Series start since the 2013 race at Eldora, came in fifth in practice with a speed of 175.006 mph.
Initially, there were supposed to be two practice sessions: a 60-minute one that began at 3 p.m. ET and then a 90-minute session that started at 4:30 p.m. ET. Wet weather in the area delayed trucks from taking the track until 5 p.m. ET for just one practice session of 90 minutes.
Just over five minutes into the session, Matt Tifft made contact with the wall in Turn 4 to bring out a caution. On Twitter, Tifft said that he blew a right front tire. The wreck destroyed the team’s primary truck, forcing him to a backup.
Norm Benning missed the first 30 minutes of the practice as he was serving a practice penalty.
Entering the Kansas race, Matt Crafton the two-time defending series champion holds a two-point lead over Tyler Reddick, who won at Daytona in the season opener. Jones is in third place in the standings and just six points back of Crafton, while Crafton’s ThorSport Racing teammate Johnny Sauter is fourth in the standings and 16 points back of Crafton.
Keystone Light Pole Qualifying is set for 4:45 p.m. ET on Friday with TV coverage on FOX Sports 1. The fourth race of the season, the Toyota Tundra 250, will be on Friday at 8:30 p.m. ET with TV coverage on FS1 as well.