2025 NASCAR Cup Series Daytona 500 Opening Practice Results

Denny Hamlin paced opening practice for the 2025 Daytona 500 on Wednesday, February 12 as he clocked in 0.145 seconds faster than Bubba Wallace during the 50-minute practice. Here are the complete Daytona 500 opening practice results, race 1 of 36:

Daytona 500 Opening Practice Results

Pos	No.	Driver	Lap time	Diff
1	11	Denny Hamlin	48.005	--
2	23	Bubba Wallace	48.150	0.145
3	54	Ty Gibbs	48.291	0.286
4	66	Chandler Smith * (i)	48.341	0.336
5	42	John Hunter Nemechek	48.361	0.356
6	35	Riley Herbst #	48.362	0.357
7	99	Daniel Suarez	48.743	0.738
8	4	Noah Gragson	48.835	0.830
9	43	Erik Jones	48.863	0.858
10	8	Kyle Busch	48.991	0.986
11	1	Ross Chastain	49.029	1.024
12	91	Helio Castroneves *	49.057	1.052
13	60	Ryan Preece	49.064	1.059
14	5	Kyle Larson	49.124	1.119
15	6	Brad Keselowski	49.125	1.120
16	20	Christopher Bell	49.135	1.134
17	88	Shane van Gisbergen #	49.162	1.157
18	3	Austin Dillon	49.177	1.172
19	77	Carson Hocevar	49.215	1.210
20	48	Alex Bowman	49.222	1.217
21	17	Chris Buescher	49.235	1.230
22	24	William Byron	49.246	1.241
23	38	Zane Smith	49.251	1.246
24	21	Josh Berry	49.254	1.249
25	2	Austin Cindric	49.283	1.278
26	10	Ty Dillon	49.295	1.290
27	16	AJ Allmendinger	49.307	1.302
28	19	Chase Briscoe	49.308	1.303
29	9	Chase Elliott	49.334	1.329
30	22	Joey Logano	49.339	1.334
31	56	Martin Truex Jr. *	49.394	1.389
32	84	Jimmie Johnson *	49.443	1.438
33	51	Cody Ware	49.458	1.453
34	62	Anthony Alfredo * (i)	49.513	1.508
35	41	Cole Custer	49.522	1.517
36	40	Justin Allgaier * (i)	49.530	1.525
37	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	49.536	1.531
38	12	Ryan Blaney	49.547	1.542
39	34	Todd Gilliland	49.573	1.568
40	45	Tyler Reddick	49.604	1.599
41	01	Corey LaJoie *	49.622	1.617
42	78	BJ McLeod *	50.035	2.030
43	44	JJ Yeley *	50.092	2.087
44	7	Justin Haley	--	--
45	71	Michael McDowell	--	--

* Indicates "Open" entries
# indicates Rookie of the Year contender
(i) indicates driver ineligible to record NASCAR Cup Series points