ALL-STAR: Ragan Leads Showdown Field

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ALL-STAR: Ragan Leads Showdown Field

David Ragan was the fastest driver in Sprint Showdown practice...

Tom Jensen | Posted May 20, 2011 Concord, NC

David Ragan was fast on Friday at Michigan. (Photo: LAT Photographic)

David Ragan was the fastest of 27 drivers setting times in Friday’s lone Sprint Showdown practice round at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Ragan lapped the 1.5-mile CMS track at 188.403 miles per hour in his No. 6 Roush Fenway Racing Ford. Second-fast was Jeff Burton, 187.780 mph in the No. 31 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet.

Burton’s teammate, Paul Menard, was next at 187.526 mph. Another pair of teammates, AJ Allmendinger and Marcos Ambrose of Richard Petty Motorsports, completed the top five.

Brad Keselowski was sixth, followed by Travis Kvapil, Joey Logano, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Brian Vickers.

The top two finishers in tomorrow night’s race will advance to the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race. Both events will be live on SPEED tomorrow night, starting at 7 p.m.

Tom Jensen is the Editor in Chief of SPEED.com, Senior NASCAR Editor at RACER and a contributing Editor for TruckSeries.com. You can follow him online at twitter.com/tomjensen100.

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