Austin Dillon leads Friday's Daytona 500 practice

The second practice session for the Daytona 500 is complete, and there were no issues during the hour-long session. Manufacturers stayed with their own, running carefully coordinated groups to minimize risk.

Chevrolet had the biggest group, so it's no surprise that bowties dominated the top ten on the speed. Austin Dillon led the way in the No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet (195.63mph), followed by Alex Bowman in the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet (195.452mph), and Justin Allgaier in the No. 40 JR Motorsports Chevrolet (195.071mph).

Chase Elliott and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. rounded out the top five, followed by Shane van Gisbergen, William Byron, Ross Chastain, Kyle Larson, and Connor Zilisch.

Josh Berry was the top Ford driver in eleventh, while Christopher Bell led the way for Toyota in 21st.

"We got out there, messed around a little bit in the draft," said Dillon, who will start seventh in Sunday's Daytona 500. "Our Chevy has speed, obviously. It's nice to see it atop the board, and last night it was fun out there pushing guys around and really just having the pace we need to be at the front. Tring to take care of it. A few minor adjustments for the heat that we're going to experience on Sunday. Theres' a couple things we've been working on with our new Camaro, but I think it's good."

Dillon's RCR teammate Kyle Busch earned pole position for the 500. In Wednesday's first practice session, Team Penske's Austin Cindric topped the speed charts, but he only reached 187.402mph.

AJ Allmendinger, Ryan Preece, and Casey Mears did not take part in practice as they were still repairing damage sustained in Thursday's Duel qualifying races. Cody Ware also sat out Friday's practice session.

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Daytona 500 Practice #2 Full Results

cla # driver manufacturer laps time gap int mph

1	3	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	11	46.006			195.627
2	48	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	28	46.047	0.041	0.041	195.452
3	40	Justin Allgaier	Chevrolet	30	46.137	0.131	0.090	195.071
4	9	Chase Elliott	Chevrolet	30	46.149	0.143	0.012	195.020
5	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Chevrolet	24	46.160	0.154	0.011	194.974
6	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Chevrolet	16	46.239	0.233	0.079	194.641
7	24	William Byron	Chevrolet	29	46.242	0.236	0.003	194.628
8	1	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	19	46.249	0.243	0.007	194.599
9	5	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	30	46.250	0.244	0.001	194.595
10	88	Connor Zilisch	Chevrolet	31	46.257	0.251	0.007	194.565
11	21	Josh Berry	Ford	20	46.307	0.301	0.050	194.355
12	10	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	25	46.336	0.330	0.029	194.233
13	38	Zane Smith	Ford	34	46.343	0.337	0.007	194.204
14	34	Todd Gilliland	Ford	34	46.355	0.349	0.012	194.154
15	6	Brad Keselowski	Ford	32	46.357	0.351	0.002	194.145
16	12	Ryan Blaney	Ford	32	46.360	0.354	0.003	194.133
17	22	Joey Logano	Ford	31	46.375	0.369	0.015	194.070
18	7	Daniel Suarez	Chevrolet	25	46.389	0.383	0.014	194.012
19	41	Cole Custer	Ford	25	46.418	0.412	0.029	193.890
20	2	Austin Cindric	Ford	31	46.453	0.447	0.035	193.744
21	20	Christopher Bell	Toyota	14	46.495	0.489	0.042	193.569
22	42	John Hunter Nemechek	Toyota	23	46.523	0.517	0.028	193.453
23	8	Kyle Busch	Chevrolet	28	46.540	0.534	0.017	193.382
24	17	Chris Buescher	Ford	21	46.640	0.634	0.100	192.967
25	4	Noah Gragson	Ford	18	46.645	0.639	0.005	192.947
26	67	Corey Heim	Toyota	27	46.910	0.904	0.265	191.857
27	19	Chase Briscoe	Toyota	13	46.931	0.925	0.021	191.771
28	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	14	46.943	0.937	0.012	191.722
29	35	Riley Herbst	Toyota	18	47.010	1.004	0.067	191.449
30	54	Ty Gibbs	Toyota	10	47.013	1.007	0.003	191.436
31	45	Tyler Reddick	Toyota	26	47.021	1.015	0.008	191.404
32	23	Darrell Wallace Jr	Toyota	12	47.070	1.064	0.049	191.205
33	71	Michael McDowell	Chevrolet	7	47.656	1.650	0.586	188.853
34	77	Carson Hocevar	Chevrolet	5	48.088	2.082	0.432	187.157
35	84	Jimmie Johnson	Toyota	18	48.950	2.944	0.862	183.861
36	43	Erik Jones	Toyota	19	49.317	3.311	0.367	182.493
37	78	BJ McLeod	Chevrolet	11	49.566	3.560	0.249	181.576

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