Keselowski caps 1-2 Penske sweep in opening Sprint Cup session
RELATED: Full practice results
Daytona 500 winner Joey Logano rose to the top of the charts Friday afternoon in opening NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice at Phoenix International Raceway, leading a 1-2 sweep of Team Penske Fords.
Logano, driving the Penske No. 22, landed a fast lap of 138.771 mph on the 1-mile track. The speed was significantly slower than the track-record speed of 142.141 mph that he clocked in the opening round of Coors Light Pole Qualifying last November.
Brad Keselowski, his Penske teammate in the No. 2 Ford, was just four thousandths of a second slower with a 138.750-mph lap, second-best in the 75-minute opening session. Kasey Kahne was third-fastest in the Hendrick Motorsports No. 5 Chevrolet at 138.424 mph.
Kevin Harvick, winner of the last three Phoenix events on the Sprint Cup tour, drove the Stewart-Haas Racing No. 4 Chevrolet to the fourth-best lap at 138.132 mph. Harvick, a six-time winner at Phoenix, also prevailed last weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and has runner-up finishes in the other two races thus far in 2015.
Denny Hamlin completed the top five with a 138.090 mph lap in the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 11 Toyota in preparation for Sunday's CampingWorld.com 500 (3:30 p.m. ET, FOX).
Kurt Busch -- making his first start of the season after NASCAR lifted his suspension Wednesday -- briefly topped the practice leaderboard early on, but wound up 17th-fastest in the Stewart-Haas Racing No. 41 Chevrolet.
Dale Earnhardt Jr., who clocked the eighth-fastest lap, parked in the garage area late and was overheard telling his Hendrick Motorsports No. 88 crew over the team radio about transmission trouble.
Coors Light Pole Qualifying is scheduled Friday at 7:50 p.m. ET, televised on FOX Sports 2.
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