RELATED: Practice 2 results
SPARTA, Ky. — Rain ended Friday’s on-track activity early for the NASCAR XFINITY Series at Kentucky Speedway. Final practice was set to run from 6 p.m. to 7:25 p.m. ET, but a red flag for wet weather came out around 30 minutes in with NASCAR calling it shortly thereafter.
At the time of the stoppage, Drew Herring (175.959 mph) was at the top of the speed chart. Herring is practicing and qualifying the No. 54 Toyota for Erik Jones and Joe Gibbs Racing at Kentucky. Jones will be in the No. 54 for the VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300 (Saturday, 8 p.m. ET, NBCSN, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)
Ryan Blaney (175.661 mph) and Daniel Suarez (175.593 mph) were in the top three in the final practice session.
Brian Scott topped the opening practice with a speed of 178.159 mph, followed by his RCR teammates of Ty Dillon (177.439 mph) and Brandon Jones (177.194 mph).
Chris Buescher enters this weekend’s race with a 25-point lead on Dillon and a 28-point lead on defending series champion Chase Elliott in the driver championship standings. Brendan Gaughan is the defending race winner.
The VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300 is the final standalone of the 2015 XFINITY Series schedule.
XFINITY Coors Light Pole Qualifying is scheduled for Saturday afternoon at 4:45 p.m. ET (NBCSN/Live Extra) with the VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300 scheduled for 8 p.m. ET.
Brad Keselowski won the July XFINITY Series race at Kentucky in the No. 22 Team Penske Ford. That car will be driven this weekend by Ryan Blaney, who won this race in 2013 for his first career XFINITY Series win.
It has been a rainy NASCAR season for the 1.5-mile oval track as much of the NASCAR tripleheader schedule in July was washed out by rain. All three national series races were run at their scheduled times, but most practice and qualifying sessions were rained out.
RELATED: Practice 1 results
Brian Scott topped the leaderboard during the final minutes of opening NASCAR XFINITY Series practice at Kentucky Speedway. In the series’ final stand-alone event of the year, Scott had a fastest lap of 178.159 mph in his No. 2 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet.
Scott’s RCR teammate, Ty Dillon, was right behind him, wheeling his No. 3 Chevrolet around the 1.5-mile track with a fastest lap of 177.439 mph.
Next was Brandon Jones, who finished with the third-fastest lap (177.194 mph) after topping the leaderboard for much of the first session.
Ryan Blaney (176.840 mph) and Daniel Suarez (176.811 mph) were fourth and fifth, respectively.
Defending race winner Brendan Gaughan was ninth-fastest, pulling a fastest lap of 175.279 mph.