Practice Results: NASCAR Cup Series Bank of America Roval 400

AJ Allmendinger, who scored a NASCAR Cup Series win at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval in 2023, led the way in Saturday's practice session around the 2.32-mile road course. Allmendinger turned an 86.630-second (96.410 mph) lap time around the course to pace the session.

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Ty Gibbs, who is seeking his first career win this weekend, was second fastest, while Daniel Suarez, Kyle Busch, and Zane Smith rounded out the top-five fastest. Kyle Larson was the top Playoff driver as he ranked seventh-fastest in the session.

The opening group that took to the course, which contained no Playoff drivers, had a distinct advantage as tire rubber marbles built up quickly, which led to slower lap times in Group 2. A big headline from the practice was aggressive tire wear, which saw lap times drop roughly four seconds per lap over the course of 10-15 lap runs.

Shane van Gisbergen, who is gunning for his fifth consecutive NASCAR Cup Series road course win, was only 17th-fastest in the practice.

Riley Herbst went for a wild ride into the barrier during the session, and caused damage to his No. 35 23XI Racing Toyota. The rookie contender clocked in 22nd-fastest.

Here are the complete practice results for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Bank of America Roval 400 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval. Race 32 of 36.

Rank	Car	Driver	Lap time	Speed
1	16	AJ Allmendinger	86.630	96.410
2	54	Ty Gibbs	86.667	96.369
3	99	Daniel Suarez	86.816	96.203
4	8	Kyle Busch	86.881	96.131
5	38*	Zane Smith	86.935	96.072
6	77	Carson Hocevar	87.049	95.946
7	5	Kyle Larson (P)	87.100	95.890
8	7	Justin Haley	87.322	95.646
9	20	Christopher Bell (P)	87.359	95.605
10	4*	Noah Gragson	87.367	95.597
11	42	John Hunter Nemechek	87.511	95.439
12	10	Ty Dillon	87.520	95.430
13	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	87.589	95.354
14	3	Austin Dillon	87.590	95.353
15	48	Alex Bowman	87.669	95.267
16	1	Ross Chastain (P)	87.684	95.251
17	88	Shane van Gisbergen #	87.720	95.212
18	17	Chris Buescher	87.725	95.207
19	21	Josh Berry	87.741	95.189
20	24	William Byron (P)	87.793	95.133
21	60	Ryan Preece	87.795	95.131
22	35*	Riley Herbst #	87.881	95.038
23	9	Chase Elliott (P)	87.937	94.977
24	12	Ryan Blaney (P)	87.947	94.966
25	45*	Tyler Reddick (P)	87.994	94.916
26	71	Michael McDowell	88.006	94.903
27	23*	Bubba Wallace (P)	88.030	94.877
28	22	Joey Logano (P)	88.100	94.801
29	41	Cole Custer	88.197	94.697
30	11	Denny Hamlin (P)	88.382	94.499
31	34*	Todd Gilliland	88.410	94.469
32	19	Chase Briscoe (P)	88.464	94.411
33	2	Austin Cindric (P)	88.482	94.392
34	43	Erik Jones	88.655	94.208
35	6	Brad Keselowski	88.661	94.202
36	66*	Josh Bilicki (i)	88.750	94.107
37	51	Cody Ware	88.805	94.049

(P) indicates NASCAR Cup Series Playoff driver
* indicates "Open" entry
# indicates Rookie of the Year contender
(i) indicates a driver ineligible to score points

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