Bubba Wallace was the quickest general in NASCAR Cup Sequence apply on Saturday morning at Homestead-Miami Speedway in his purple Grimace machine.

Wallace’s quickest lap was 169.088 mph (31.936 seconds) and got here on his first lap on the monitor. He was among the many first group of drivers to take part in apply. The 23XI Racing driver was additionally quickest in one of the best 10 consecutive lap common.

“It’s good,” Wallace mentioned. “I believe the race is like 300 laps or one thing, so we’ve bought to be quick for all of them. However the Grimace Toyota Camry TRD appears actually good. Runs actually good. I believe the driving force simply has to point out up and play actually good tomorrow. So, it feels good to be again in Miami. I forgot how enjoyable this place was.”

Wallace didn’t compete within the occasion at Homestead-Miami Speedway final season. After hooking Kyle Larson in the suitable rear the week earlier than at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Wallace was suspended for one race.

Austin Cindric was second quickest at 167.999 mph and Ryan Blaney was third quickest at 167.764 mph. Christopher Bell was fourth quickest at 167.650 mph with Michael McDowell was fifth quickest at 167.468 mph.

Martin Truex Jr. was sixth quickest at 167.364 mph, forward of Denny Hamlin in seventh at 167.152 mph. Tyler Reddick was eighth quickest at 166.935 mph, with Brad Keselowski at 166.770 mph and Chase Briscoe at 166.744 mph finishing the highest 10.

Kyle Larson, who’s already locked into the Championship 4, was seventeenth quickest, whereas William Byron was twenty first quickest and Chris Buescher, the slowest playoff driver in apply, was thirty second.

There was one incident in apply – Joey Logano clocked in eleventh quickest general earlier than spinning off Flip 2 and hitting the within wall on the backstretch. The Penske driver will go to a backup automotive for Sunday’s race and never make a qualifying lap.

“I used to be caught in soiled air the entire run and I went to the underside to attempt to cross Reddick and simply misplaced it,” Logano mentioned. “Simply coming off the nook was throttling up and appeared all the things was OK, and it simply snapped round actually late. It was type of bizarre and shocked how late it occurred.

“It’s a bummer. I believed we had a reasonably good Shell/Pennzoil Mustang from the lap time perspective, and even being in visitors I believed we had been first rate. However we’ll have to tug out the backup and hopefully, it’s simply pretty much as good.”

There are 36 drivers entered within the 4EVER 400 at Homestead.