Tyler Reddick was fastest in NASCAR Cup Series practice Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, while fellow championship contender Ryan Blaney was relegated to a backup car.
Reddick (P) topped the board at 183.187mph (29.478s). The fast time was set during Reddick’s fifth lap on the track.
Martin Truex Jr. was second fastest at 182.723mph; Ty Gibbs was third at 182.519mph; Ross Chastain, fourth at 182.402mph and Carson Hocevar completed the top five at 182.315 mph.
Bubba Wallace was sixth at 182.156mph; Zane Smith, seventh at 182.057mph; Ricky Stenhouse Jr., eighth at 182.05 mph; Kyle Larson (P), ninth at 181.941mph and Alex Bowman rounded out the top 10 at 181.861mph.
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Larson is the defending South Point 400 race winner.
William Byron (P) was 11th fastest at 181.781mph; Christopher Bell (P), 13th at 181.702mph; Denny Hamlin (P), 18th at 181.427mph and Chase Elliott (P) was 20th at 181.269mph.
Joey Logano (P) was 30th fastest at 179.892mph, and Blaney was the slowest playoff driver, having only completed one lap. The left rear tire on Blaney’s car went down because of a puncture in Turn 1, which spun his Ford Mustang around and sent it into the outside wall with contact on the driver’s side.
Blaney will be in a backup car for Sunday’s race. He was the only incident in practice.
Martin Truex Jr. was fastest in the best 10 consecutive lap average. It was Truex over Reddick, Chastain, Elliott, and Larson.
There are 37 drivers entered in Sunday’s race.
(P) denotes Playoff driver