{"id":121174,"date":"2025-08-30T16:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T16:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/121174\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T16:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T16:59:10","slug":"darlington-southern-500-nascar-practice-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/121174\/","title":{"rendered":"Darlington Southern 500 NASCAR Practice Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ifantasyrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kyle-Larson-Ryan-Blaney-martinsville-1.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-tf-not-load=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"auto\" decoding=\"auto\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"wp-image-193919 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kyle-Larson-Ryan-Blaney-martinsville-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"365\"  \/><\/a>Photo by Jared C. Tilton\/Getty Images<br \/>\nDarlington Practice Group 1 Notes<\/p>\n<p>Ty Gibbs \u2013 Gibbs had good long run speed. Gibbs had the best 25 and 30-lap averages in Group 1. Ty Gibbs ran a lot of the fastest laps deep into a run.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Keselowski \u2013 Brad Keselowski radioed his team and told them that he thinks his car is pretty good. He wasn\u2019t high on the speed charts but that\u2019s not a concern since he\u2019s happy. Keselowski had the 7th best 30-lap average in Group 1.<\/p>\n<p>Michael McDowell \u2013 The #71 was fast off the Truck and had good speed. In terms of overall speed in Group 1, he ranked #1. In Group 1, McDowell had the best 5-lap average and the ranked 2nd for 10 and 15-lap averages. McDowell never made a 20-lap run.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Preece \u2013 Ryan Preece was shown to have gotten a Darlington stripe about 5-minutes into practice.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Haley \u2013 The #7 car had solid pace in practice. In Group 1, Haley had the best 10,15 and 20-lap averages. For 25-lap averages he ranked 2nd and then for 30-lap averages he ranked 4th. Haley said his car is super-fast this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Noah Gragson \u2013 Noah Gragson looked respectable in practice. In Group 1 his 15-lap average was the 4th best. For 30-lap averages, Gragson ranked 3rd. <\/p>\n<p>Portions of this content are hidden. To view this ifantasyrace advantage content <a href=\"https:\/\/ifantasyrace.com\/login\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">log in<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/ifantasyrace.com\/join-rejoin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">join<\/a> the site<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo by Jared C. Tilton\/Getty Images Darlington Practice Group 1 Notes Ty Gibbs \u2013 Gibbs had good long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-121174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}