Practice Results: NASCAR Cup Series Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas

Chris Buescher is looking to avenge his heartbreaking Kansas Speedway defeat by 0.001 seconds, a season ago, this weekend, and he kicked off the bid to win Sunday's Hollywood Casino 400 by turning the fastest lap in Saturday's NASCAR Cup Series practice.

Buescher turned a fast lap time of 30.672 seconds, which equates to a 176.056 mph average around the 1.5-mile speedway. Buescher topped Zane Smith, who has had a decent season behind the wheel of the No. 38 Front Row Motorsports Ford Mustang.

Denny Hamlin was the top Playoff contender in the session as he clocked in third-fastest, and he was ahead of Bubba Wallace, another Playoff contender who drives the No. 23 23XI Racing Toyota.

John Hunter Nemechek was fifth-fastest.

Here are where all of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoff drivers ranked in the session: Denny Hamlin (3rd), Bubba Wallace (4th), Chase Briscoe (8th), Kyle Larson (12th), Chase Elliott (13th), Tyler Reddick (14th), Christopher Bell (17th), Austin Cindric (20th), William Byron (23rd), Ross Chastain (31st), Joey Logano (35th), and Ryan Blaney (36th).

Logano and Blaney suffered flat tires during the practice session, and Blaney slammed the outside wall due to his flat tire.

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Here are the complete results from Saturday's NASCAR Cup Series practice session for Sunday's Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway. Race 31 of 36.

Rank	Car	Driver	Lap time	Speed
1	17	Chris Buescher	30.672	176.056
2	38*	Zane Smith	30.735	175.695
3	11	Denny Hamlin (P)	30.737	175.684
4	23*	Bubba Wallace (P)	30.741	175.661
5	42	John Hunter Nemechek	30.763	175.536
6	43	Erik Jones	30.776	175.461
7	7	Justin Haley	30.792	175.370
8	19	Chase Briscoe (P)	30.801	175.319
9	34*	Todd Gilliland	30.806	175.291
10	10	Ty Dillon	30.823	175.194
11	41	Cole Custer	30.839	175.103
12	5	Kyle Larson (P)	30.855	175.012
13	9	Chase Elliott (P)	30.860	174.984
14	45*	Tyler Reddick (P)	30.867	174.944
15	16	AJ Allmendinger	30.869	174.933
16	71	Michael McDowell	30.871	174.921
17	20	Christopher Bell (P)	30.878	174.882
18	4*	Noah Gragson	30.882	174.859
19	54	Ty Gibbs	30.883	174.853
20	2	Austin Cindric (P)	30.907	174.718
21	99	Daniel Suarez	30.938	174.543
22	88	Shane van Gisbergen #	30.940	174.531
23	24	William Byron (P)	30.974	174.340
24	21	Josh Berry	30.974	174.340
25	77	Carson Hocevar	30.990	174.250
26	3	Austin Dillon	31.004	174.171
27	35*	Riley Herbst #	31.031	174.020
28	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	31.034	174.003
29	60	Ryan Preece	31.046	173.935
30	51	Cody Ware	31.088	173.700
31	1	Ross Chastain (P)	31.124	173.500
32	6	Brad Keselowski	31.187	173.149
33	8	Kyle Busch	31.244	172.833
34	48	Alex Bowman	31.272	172.678
35	22	Joey Logano (P)	31.492	171.472
36	12	Ryan Blaney (P)	31.678	170.465
37	44*	JJ Yeley (i)	32.115	168.146

(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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