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A 139.524-mph run sent Kyle Larson‘s No. 42 Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates Chevrolet to the top of the leaderboard late in Friday’s opening Sprint Cup Series practice for the Can-Am 500 (Sunday, 2:30 p.m. ET on NBC, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) at Phoenix International Raceway.
Joey Logano, the fastest Chase driver, was second on the speed charts, his No. 22 Team Penske Ford clocking in at 139.492 mph.
Hendrick Motorsports‘ Chase Elliott (139.297 mph), Joe Gibbs Racing‘s Denny Hamlin (139.152 mph) and Furniture Row Racing‘s Martin Truex Jr. (139.136 mph) rounded out the top five — Truex, though, got into the wall late and his team unloaded the backup car.
Kyle Busch was the slowest Chase driver, coming up 19th in the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota at 138.000 mph.
Phoenix’s most recent winner Kevin Harvick notched the 15th-fastest speed after making a mock-qualifying run in his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet. Harvick is an eight-time winner at the Arizona track.
Harvick, Tony Stewart, Carl Edwards and Truex Jr. all failed pre-qualifying inspection three times at Texas Motor Speedway last week and lost 15 minutes of practice time as a result. AJ Allmendinger was also docked 15 minutes after practice time after failing pre-qualifying laser inspection three times.
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The Sprint Cup Series is back on track at 6:45 p.m. ET for Coors Light Pole qualifying (NBCSN/NBC Sports App).