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CUP: Kyle Busch Paces First Saturday Practice At TMS
Kyle Busch is shooting for a clean sweep this weekend...
Tom Jensen  |  Posted November 06, 2010   Fort Worth, TX
Kyle Busch is the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series' most recent winner. (Photo: LAT Photographic)
Kyle Busch, who is hoping to score a tripleheader victory this weekend, led the first of two Saturday morning practices for tomorrow’s AAA Texas 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway.

Busch won the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race Friday night at TMS, and will go for his sixth consecutive NASCAR Nationwide Series race victory at the 1.5-mile track this afternoon.

He looked pretty stout in his Joe Gibbs Racing Sprint Cup car Saturday morning as well, topping the speed charts at 189.228 miles per hour in the opening 45-minute session.

Carl Edwards, a three-time Texas winner, was second fast at 188.475 mph in his No. 99 Roush Fenway Racing Ford. Then it was Martin Truex Jr.’s Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota, 187.669 mph, and Ryan Newman, who clocked in at 187.169 mph in the No. 39 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet. That meant all four manufacturers were represented in the top four positions.

The second five consisted of Tony Stewart, Juan Pablo Montoya, Kurt Busch, Clint Bowyer and Greg Biffle.

Of the three contenders for the NASCAR Sprint Cup championship, Jimmie Johnson fared best, running 11th fastest. Denny Hamlin was 18th and Kevin Harvick 31st.

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 and e-mail him at Jensen is the author of “Cheating: The Bad Things Good NASCAR Nextel Cup Racers Do In Pursuit of Speed,” and has appeared on numerous television and radio shows. Jensen is the past President of the National Motorsports Press Association and an NMPA Writer of the Year.

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