Michael McDowell tops final Daytona 500 practice session

McDowell set his top average speed of 191.440 mph early in the 50-minute session while drafting with Ty Dillon.

Dillon ended up second-fastest (191.432 mph) while pole-winner William Byron was third (191.339 mph). Alex Bowman, who is also starting on the front row, was fourth-fastest and rookie Daniel Hemric completed the top-five.

Rounding out the Top 10 were Joey Logano, Jimmie Johnson, Daniel Suarez, Jamie McMurray and Brad Keselowski.

Only 21 of the 40 cars entered in the race elected to take to the track on Saturday, with Kurt Busch completing the most laps (16).

There were no incidents during the session.

Take a lap around Daytona courtesy of NASCAR Heat 3.

Cla	#	Driver	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	Mph
1	34	Michael McDowell	Ford	9	47.012			191.440
2	13	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	5	47.014	0.002	0.002	191.432
3	24	William Byron	Chevrolet	5	47.037	0.025	0.023	191.339
4	88	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	10	47.052	0.040	0.015	191.278
5	8	Daniel Hemric	Chevrolet	3	47.140	0.128	0.088	190.921
6	22	Joey Logano	Ford	4	47.276	0.264	0.136	190.371
7	48	Jimmie Johnson	Chevrolet	14	47.279	0.267	0.003	190.359
8	41	Daniel Suarez	Ford	2	47.336	0.324	0.057	190.130
9	40	Jamie McMurray	Chevrolet	12	47.339	0.327	0.003	190.118
10	2	Brad Keselowski	Ford	11	47.367	0.355	0.028	190.006
11	1	Kurt Busch	Chevrolet	16	47.433	0.421	0.066	189.741
12	43	Darrell Wallace Jr.	Chevrolet	5	47.573	0.561	0.140	189.183
13	12	Ryan Blaney	Ford	3	47.592	0.580	0.019	189.107
14	37	Chris Buescher	Chevrolet	8	47.617	0.605	0.025	189.008
15	36	Matt Tifft	Ford	7	47.665	0.653	0.048	188.818
16	42	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	10	47.712	0.700	0.047	188.632
17	31	Tyler Reddick	Chevrolet	3	47.767	0.755	0.055	188.415
18	47	Ryan Preece	Chevrolet	10	47.976	0.964	0.209	187.594
19	96	Parker Kligerman	Toyota	5	48.000	0.988	0.024	187.500
20	00	Landon Cassill	Chevrolet	6	48.318	1.306	0.318	186.266
21	38	David Ragan	Ford