IndyCars 30 sec per lap faster than Cup Cars at Road America
They describe it as watching paint dry. The Busch brothers ran 1-2 in NASCAR Cup practice at Road America Saturday. They lapped 30 seconds per lap slower than what the IndyCars turn at Road America.
The IndyCar lap record (CART era) at Road America is just under 100 seconds – 33 seconds per lap faster than what the Busch Brothers turned today. However, today’s IndyCars are much slower than 20 years ago when CART had real race cars, and they lap in 106 seconds (pole lap time this year). And the CART era did not have soft red Firestone tires like today’s IndyCars have for qualifying.
The IndyCars would lap the Cup cars every 3 laps or so on the 4.0-mile Elkhart Lake Road Course.
Cup Practice Results
| POS | CAR | DRIVER | MAKE | BEHIND | TIME | SPEED |
| 1 | 1 | Kurt Busch |  |
0.000s | 133.849s | 108.875 |
| 2 | 18 | Kyle Busch |  |
0.267 | 134.116s | 108.658 |
| 3 | 33 | * Austin Cindric(i) |  |
0.431 | 134.280s | 108.525 |
| 4 | 12 | Ryan Blaney | |
0.464 | 134.313s | 108.499 |
| 5 | 8 | Tyler Reddick | |
0.492 | 134.341s | 108.476 |
| 6 | 11 | Denny Hamlin | |
0.777 | 134.626s | 108.247 |
| 7 | 16 | * AJ Allmendinger(i) | |
0.788 | 134.637s | 108.238 |
| 8 | 20 | Christopher Bell | |
0.801 | 134.650s | 108.227 |
| 9 | 5 | Kyle Larson | |
0.851 | 134.700s | 108.187 |
| 10 | 14 | Chase Briscoe | |
0.949 | 134.798s | 108.108 |
| 11 | 24 | William Byron | |
1.005 | 134.854s | 108.064 |
| 12 | 48 | Alex Bowman | |
1.080 | 134.929s | 108.003 |
| 13 | 42 | Ross Chastain | |
1.110 | 134.959s | 107.979 |
| 14 | 9 | Chase Elliott | |
1.219 | 135.068s | 107.892 |
| 15 | 3 | Austin Dillon | |
1.318 | 135.167s | 107.813 |
| 16 | 41 | Cole Custer | |
1.690 | 135.539s | 107.517 |
| 17 | 4 | Kevin Harvick | |
1.709 | 135.558s | 107.502 |
| 18 | 23 | Bubba Wallace | |
1.762 | 135.611s | 107.460 |
| 19 | 19 | Martin Truex Jr. | |
1.770 | 135.619s | 107.454 |
| 20 | 21 | Matt DiBenedetto | |
1.846 | 135.695s | 107.394 |
| 21 | 17 | Chris Buescher | |
1.854 | 135.703s | 107.387 |
| 22 | 22 | Joey Logano | |
1.901 | 135.750s | 107.350 |
| 23 | 34 | Michael McDowell | |
1.943 | 135.792s | 107.317 |
| 24 | 7 | Corey LaJoie | |
2.035 | 135.884s | 107.244 |
| 25 | 2 | Brad Keselowski | |
2.062 | 135.911s | 107.223 |
| 26 | 47 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr. | |
2.128 | 135.977s | 107.171 |
| 27 | 10 | Aric Almirola | |
2.327 | 136.176s | 107.014 |
| 28 | 99 | Daniel Suarez | |
2.753 | 136.602s | 106.681 |
| 29 | 38 | Anthony Alfredo # | |
2.977 | 136.826s | 106.506 |
| 30 | 77 | Justin Haley(i) | |
3.285 | 137.134s | 106.267 |
| 31 | 51 | Cody Ware(i) | |
3.339 | 137.188s | 106.225 |
| 32 | 43 | Erik Jones | |
3.579 | 137.428s | 106.040 |
| 33 | 15 | James Davison | |
4.036 | 137.885s | 105.688 |
| 34 | 6 | Ryan Newman | |
4.254 | 138.103s | 105.521 |
| 35 | 78 | Kyle Tilley | |
4.630 | 138.479s | 105.235 |
| 36 | 52 | Josh Bilicki | |
4.650 | 138.499s | 105.220 |
| 37 | 96 | * Ty Dillon(i) | |
5.123 | 138.972s | 104.861 |
| 38 | 53 | Ryan Eversley | |
6.337 | 140.186s | 103.953 |
| 39 | 00 | Quin Houff | |
7.934 | 141.783s | 102.782 |
| 40 | 37 | * Ryan Preece | |
38.195 | 172.044s | 84.704 |
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