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Noah Gragson was quickest in Friday’s NASCAR Cup Sequence observe at Iowa Speedway — a session highlighted by quite a few tire points.
Gragson went to the highest of the board late on at 137.988mph (22.828s). Cup Sequence groups got an prolonged observe, 50 minutes, as a result of it’s the first go to for the collection to the power.
Ty Gibbs was second quickest at 136.559mph. Gibbs was certainly one of 5 drivers who had tire points.
Alex Bowman was third at 136.334mph, Justin Haley, fourth at 136.269mph, Chase Elliott, fifth at 135.881mph and Ross Chastain, sixth at 135.799mph.
Gibbs, Christopher Bell, Chastain, and Austin Cindric every had a tire go down that resulted in 4 pink flags. Gibbs, Bell, and Cindric had right-front tire points.
The No. 54 was lucky sufficient to have his tire go down off Flip 2, permitting him to remain off the wall, however his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Bell, hit the wall in Flip 4 and goes to a backup automobile for Sunday’s race.
Cindric hit the Flip 2 wall in his Crew Penske automobile after his tire went down. He, too, might be going to a backup automobile for the race.
Chastain suffered a flat left rear tire in his Trackhouse Racing automobile and stopped on the backstretch. NASCAR put Chastain’s automobile on a dolly and towed it to the storage to keep away from additional damaging it by dragging it across the racetrack.
23XI Racing’s Tyler Reddick was the fifth driver to have a difficulty. Reddick, nonetheless, caught the proper entrance taking place and introduced his automobile to pit street within the remaining minutes of observe earlier than it resulted in an on-track incident.
Harrison Burton ran seventh at 135.782mph, Denny Hamlin, eighth at 135.735mph, Austin Dillon, ninth at 135.688mph and Chase Briscoe accomplished the highest 10 at 135.554mph.
There are 36 drivers entered within the Iowa Corn 350.
Reddick was quickest in one of the best 10 consecutive lap common over Chastain, Bowman, Kyle Larson, Hamlin, Briscoe, Bell, Daniel Suarez, and Kyle Busch.
NEXT: Cup Sequence qualifying at 1:05 p.m. ET Saturday (USA).
