Tyler Reddick was fastest Friday in NASCAR Cup Series practice as teams made their return to the oval at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Reddick topped the board at 182.582 mph (49.293 seconds). He was fastest over reigning series champion Ryan Blaney, who clocked in at 181.928 mph.
Denny Hamlin was third fastest (181.561 mph), Christopher Bell was fourth fastest (181.371 mph), and Alex Bowman (180.93 mph) completed the top five. Kyle Larson was sixth fastest in practice (180.774 mph).
Brad Keselowski was seventh fastest (180.654 mph) while his teammate Chris Buescher was eighth fastest (180.556 mph). William Byron was ninth fastest (180.527 mph) and Carson Hocevar rounded out the top 10 (180.52 mph).
Cup Series championship point leader Chase Elliott was 12th fastest in practice (180.058 mph).
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Kyle Busch, a two-time winner of the Brickyard 400, was 16th fastest in practice. Busch’s best lap was 179.824 mph.
Keselowski, Busch, and Jimmie Johnson are the only active winners from the Indianapolis oval in the field. Johnson was 21st fastest in practice.
NASCAR last ran on the oval in 2020. Kevin Harvick, who retired from full-time NASCAR competition after last season, won that event.
The 50-minute session was relatively uneventful. There was one caution for debris and Erik Jones had a single-car spin in the final seconds of practice. Jones spun off Turn 2 but did not hit anything.
There are 39 drivers entered at Indianapolis. Ty Dillon is in a third entry for Richard Childress Racing and B.J. McLeod is the MBM Motorsports entry.
Elliott ran the most laps in practice (36).
Reddick was also fastest in the best 10 consecutive lap average. It was Reddick over Larson, Hamlin, Keselowski, and Cindric.
UP NEXT: Cup Series qualifying at 1:05 p.m. ET Saturday.