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The Joe Gibbs Racing No. 18 team of Kyle Busch is rushing to make repairs after an incident during the day's opening practice session.
Busch dinged the outside wall with a little more than 40 minutes remaining in a nearly two-and-a-half hour session at the repaved and reconfigured 1.5-mile track, damaging the right-rear fender of his Toyota.
The team initially pulled out the backup car, but changed course and opted to try to fix the primary due to its impressive speed. A team spokesman said the team was far along with repairs to the No. 18 Toyota, improving initial forecasts that the team was doubtful to prep the car before Friday's Coors Light Pole Qualifying (6:15 p.m. ET, FS1).
If Busch is unable to participate in pole qualifying, his No. 18 would start from the rear of the field in Sunday's O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 (1:30 p.m. ET, FOX, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
This story will be updated.