Friday, July 27, 2012

Busch Brothers Lead Nationwide Practice

Kyle Busch led the Busch Brother one-two in Nationwide Practice yesterday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The fastest lap run by Kyle was 51.184 seconds, a little over three tenths of a second ahead of his brother and Kasey Kahne who was third. The 2006 Indianapolis 500 winner, Sam Hornish Jr. was the fastest Dodge and fourth overall ahead of the Toyota of Denny Hamlin and the defending Brickyard 400 winner Paul Menard. Justin Allgaier was seventh ahead of Brad Keselowski, Austin Dillon and Elliott Sadler rounded out the top ten.

Brian Scott was eleventh and 18-year old Ryan Blaney was twelfth fastest. Danica Patrick, Ty Dillon and Joe Nemechek rounded out the top fifteen. Other notables are Joey Logano in seventeenth, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. in nineteenth, James Buescher was twenty-third, Travis Pastrana was twenty-sixth and Kenny Wallace was thirty-fourth.

Nationwide Series qualifying will be at 12:15pm ET on Saturday with the race scheduled for 4:30pm ET later that same day. The Cup Series does not see the race track until Saturday with two practices in the morning, one beginning a 8:30am ET, the other at 10:30am ET. Cup qualifying will be at 2:10pm ET Saturday and the race will be at 1:00pm ET Sunday.