AAA Texas 500: Vickers tops first Cup Series practice

Brian Vickers had the fastest car in the first Cup Series practice at Texas Motor Speedway.

The Michael Waltrip Racing driver posted a lap time of 27.106 and came close to cracking the 200 MPH barrier with a speed of 199.218 MPH.

Out of the eight remaining Chase drivers, Kevin Harvick was the fastest, finishing second.

Matt Kenseth was the slowest Chase driver, finishing 26th, with a lap time of 27.56 seconds.

Up next for the Cup Series is qualifying at 6:45 p.m. ET on ESPN2.

Pos.	No.	Driver	Speed	Time
1	55	Brian Vickers	199.218	27.106
2	4	Kevin Harvick	198.990	27.137
3	14	Tony Stewart	198.866	27.154
4	78	Martin Truex Jr	198.617	27.188
5	24	Jeff Gordon	198.581	27.193
6	43	Aric Almirola	198.013	27.271
7	99	Carl Edwards	197.954	27.279
8	48	Jimmie Johnson	197.918	27.284
9	21	Trevor Bayne	197.549	27.335
10	17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	197.477	27.345
11	16	Greg Biffle	197.433	27.351
12	11	Denny Hamlin	197.390	27.357
13	18	Kyle Busch	197.390	27.357
14	88	Dale Earnhardt Jr	197.001	27.411
15	5	Kasey Kahne	196.937	27.420
16	9	Marcos Ambrose	196.922	27.422
17	15	Clint Bowyer	196.800	27.439
18	47	AJ Allmendinger	196.535	27.476
19	1	Jamie McMurray	196.528	27.477
20	22	Joey Logano	196.492	27.482
21	3	Austin Dillon	196.378	27.498
22	42	Kyle Larson	196.307	27.508
23	31	Ryan Newman	196.285	27.511
24	2	Brad Keselowski	196.192	27.524
25	27	Paul Menard	196.014	27.549
26	20	Matt Kenseth	195.936	27.560
27	51	Justin Allgaier	195.908	27.564
28	38	David Gilliland	195.716	27.591
29	13	Casey Mears	195.397	27.636
30	41	Kurt Busch	194.946	27.700
31	98	Josh Wise	194.946	27.700
32	23	Alex Bowman	194.798	27.721
33	95	Michael McDowell	194.714	27.733
34	36	Reed Sorenson	194.203	27.806
35	7	Michael Annett	193.986	27.837
36	34	David Ragan	193.840	27.858
37	10	Danica Patrick	193.431	27.917
38	26	Cole Whitt	192.830	28.004
39	40	Landon Cassill	192.568	28.042
40	83	J.J. Yeley	191.755	28.161
41	66	Brett Moffitt	190.255	28.383
42	32	Joey Gase	187.156	28.853
43	33	Timmy Hill	186.709	28.922

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