Practice Results: NCS Go Bowling at The Glen at Watkins Glen

Justin Haley, the driver of the No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet, paced NASCAR Cup Series practice at Watkins Glen International on Saturday afternoon. Haley logged the fastest lap of the session with a 72.674-second circuit around the 2.45-mile road course.

Haley narrowly defeated Michael McDowell, his Spire Motorsports teammate, for the top spot by 0.001 seconds. Chris Buescher, Ty Gibbs, and Kyle Larson rounded out the top-five fastest drivers in the session.

Here are the complete practice results for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Go Bowling at The Glen at Watkins Glen International. Race 24 of 36.

Rank	Car	Driver	Lap time	Diff
1	7	Justin Haley	72.674	--
2	71	Michael McDowell	72.675	0.001
3	17	Chris Buescher	72.678	0.004
4	54	Ty Gibbs	72.795	0.121
5	5	Kyle Larson	72.806	0.132
6	88	Shane van Gisbergen #	72.831	0.157
7	87	Connor Zilisch * (i)	72.856	0.182
8	34	Todd Gilliland *	72.864	0.190
9	19	Chase Briscoe	72.877	0.203
10	24	William Byron	72.879	0.205
11	1	Ross Chastain	72.920	0.246
12	48	Alex Bowman	72.933	0.259
13	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	72.970	0.296
14	12	Ryan Blaney	73.043	0.369
15	8	Kyle Busch	73.046	0.372
16	77	Carson Hocevar	73.052	0.378
17	9	Chase Elliott	73.052	0.378
18	22	Joey Logano	73.054	0.380
19	21	Josh Berry	73.085	0.411
20	41	Cole Custer	73.088	0.414
21	99	Daniel Suarez	73.106	0.432
22	2	Austin Cindric	73.141	0.467
23	20	Christopher Bell	73.147	0.473
24	16	AJ Allmendinger	73.169	0.495
25	43	Erik Jones	73.216	0.542
26	35	Riley Herbst * #	73.240	0.566
27	42	John Hunter Nemechek	73.283	0.609
28	45	Tyler Reddick *	73.300	0.626
29	38	Zane Smith *	73.304	0.630
30	10	Ty Dillon	73.341	0.667
31	4	Noah Gragson *	73.377	0.703
32	11	Denny Hamlin	73.381	0.707
33	60	Ryan Preece	73.458	0.784
34	23	Bubba Wallace *	73.460	0.786
35	6	Brad Keselowski	73.706	1.032
36	3	Austin Dillon	73.784	1.110
37	51	Cody Ware	74.025	1.351
38	78	Katherine Legge *	75.297	2.623
39	44	JJ Yeley * (i)	75.365	2.691
40	66	Josh Bilicki * (i)	75.733	3.059

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

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