Kyle Busch tops incident-filled Roval practice at Charlotte

Busch was also among the many victims of a penalty during the 50-minute session for driving through the frontstretch or backstretch chicanes. Each driver that did so had that lap time disallowed and had to make a pass-thru penalty on pit road.

Still, Busch went out again late in the session and set the fastest average lap speed of 106.397 mph, topping his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Erik Jones (106.382 mph). Joey Logano was third-fastest (106.122 mph).

Daniel Hemric, entered as a third team this weekend by Richard Childress Racing, was fourth-fastest and Clint Bowyer completed the top-five.

Rounding out the Top 10 were Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott, Jamie McMurray and Trevor Bayne.

Early into the session, Darrell Wallace Jr. went for a spin in the infield course but continued on. Wallace ended up spinning at least three times in the session.

Aric Almirola went off-course in Turn 3 early in the session and hit the tire barrier, doing some damage to his No. 10 Ford.

Denny Hamlin’s No. 11 Toyota also suffered some damage after he ran over the blue “turtle” curbs designed to keep drivers on the course in the chicanes.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. also spun and hit the tire barrier in Turn 3, doing damage to his No. 17 Ford.

Austin Dillon’s No. 3 suffered a lot of left-front damage after he slammed into the tire barrier exiting the backstretch chicane.

Take a virtual lap around the Charlotte Roval with the No. 78 Toyota Camry of Martin Truex Jr., courtesy of NASCAR Heat 3, which you can order now:

Cla	#	Driver	4506	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	Mph
1	18	Kyle Busch	Toyota	6	1'17.145			106.397
2	20	Erik Jones	Toyota	5	1'17.156	0.011	0.011	106.382
3	22	Joey Logano	Ford	11	1'17.345	0.200	0.189	106.122
4	8	Daniel Hemric	Chevrolet	9	1'17.375	0.230	0.030	106.081
5	14	Clint Bowyer	Ford	10	1'17.425	0.280	0.050	106.012
6	42	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	8	1'17.430	0.285	0.005	106.005
7	48	Jimmie Johnson	Chevrolet	10	1'17.467	0.322	0.037	105.955
8	9	Chase Elliott	Chevrolet	12	1'17.679	0.534	0.212	105.666
9	1	Jamie McMurray	Chevrolet	7	1'17.859	0.714	0.180	105.421
10	6	Trevor Bayne	Ford	8	1'17.882	0.737	0.023	105.390
11	2	Brad Keselowski	Ford	8	1'17.917	0.772	0.035	105.343
12	37	Chris Buescher	Chevrolet	6	1'17.922	0.777	0.005	105.336
13	41	Kurt Busch	Ford	9	1'17.924	0.779	0.002	105.333
14	88	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	11	1'18.191	1.046	0.267	104.974
15	47	A.J. Allmendinger	Chevrolet	10	1'18.283	1.138	0.092	104.850
16	34	Michael McDowell	Ford	5	1'18.332	1.187	0.049	104.785
17	78	Martin Truex Jr.	Toyota	5	1'18.339	1.194	0.007	104.775
18	19	Daniel Suarez	Toyota	9	1'18.459	1.314	0.120	104.615
19	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	9	1'18.521	1.376	0.062	104.533
20	21	Paul Menard	Ford	10	1'18.589	1.444	0.068	104.442
21	38	David Ragan	Ford	11	1'19.292	2.147	0.703	103.516
22	17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Ford	4	1'19.365	2.220	0.073	103.421
23	12	Ryan Blaney	Ford	8	1'19.503	2.358	0.138	103.241
24	10	Aric Almirola	Ford	9	1'19.507	2.362	0.004	103.236
25	3	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	16	1'19.805	2.660	0.298	102.851
26	15	Justin Marks	Chevrolet	11	1'20.163	3.018	0.358	102.391
27	4	Kevin Harvick	Ford	15	1'20.286	3.141	0.123	102.235
28	13	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	8	1'20.527	3.382	0.241	101.929
29	95	Regan Smith	Chevrolet	14	1'20.629	3.484	0.102	101.800
30	31	Ryan Newman	Chevrolet	6	1'20.633	3.488	0.004	101.795
31	32	Matt DiBenedetto	Ford	12	1'20.969	3.824	0.336	101.372
32	24	William Byron	Chevrolet	5	1'21.194	4.049	0.225	101.091
33	43	Darrell Wallace Jr.	Chevrolet	16	1'21.290	4.145	0.096	100.972
34	72	Cole Whitt	Chevrolet	5	1'21.565	4.420	0.275	100.631
35	7	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	2	1'22.297	5.152	0.732	99.736
36	66	Timmy Hill	Toyota	3	1'23.053	5.908	0.756	98.828
37	23	J.J. Yeley	Toyota	6	1'23.307	6.162	0.254	98.527
38	96	Jeffrey Earnhardt	Toyota	12	1'23.348	6.203	0.041	98.479
39	51	Stanton Barrett	Ford	10	1'24.835	7.690	1.487	96.753
40	00	Landon Cassill	Chevrolet	6	1'24.843	7.698	0.008	96.743