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Championship adversary William Byron led the final Xfinity Alternation convenance afore the title-deciding chase at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Byron paced the final affair Friday, and he was able-bodied advanced of all his challengers for the title. The chase begins Saturday afternoon.
JR Motorsports teammates Elliott Sadler and Justin Allgaier were ninth and 13th, respectively, in the final practice. All three drivers are aggravating to accord aggregation co-owner Dale Earnhardt Jr. a appellation in his final division as a driver. They are up adjoin Daniel Hemric from Richard Childress Racing. Hemric was 15th in the final practice. All four appellation contenders drive Chevrolets.
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5 p.m.
Austin Cindric was the fastest of the four NASCAR Truck Alternation championship chase drivers in qualifying.
Cindric starts third, backstab alternation best Matt Crafton is eighth, arresting alternation best Johnny Sauter is 11th and Christopher Bell is 13th.
They'll be block pole champ Chase Briscoe.
Bell led the Truck Alternation in wins (seven), top five-finishes (14) and laps led (865). Cindric can win a championship for Brad Keselowski Antagonism afore it folds.
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4 p.m.
William Byron was the fastest of the four Xfinity Alternation championship contenders in their aboriginal convenance affair Friday.
Byron was fifth on the acceleration chart. He's one of three drivers from JR Motorsports antagonism for the championship adjoin Daniel Hemric of Richard Childress Racing.
It's an all-Chevrolet championship race. JRM drivers Elliott Sadler and Justin Allgaier were 15th and 17th in aboriginal practice. Hemric was 21st.
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3 p.m.
Danica Patrick bankrupt bottomward in tears while aggravating to altercate her abutting venture. Patrick says she will run in the Daytona 500 and Indianapolis 500 abutting year and again end her full-time antagonism career.
Patrick had to stop and compose her affections and clean abroad tears as she approved to advertise her decision.
["746.9"]Beck's Home Furniture | Montague, PE | Stewart And Beck Home FurniturePatrick told The Associated Press on Friday it took her months to appear to the ability that her career is over. The 35-year-old Patrick says already she accustomed that again the abstraction of capping her run at Indianapolis Motor Speedway popped into her head.
She has been alive on putting calm "The Danica Double" over the aftermost three weeks. Patrick would not acknowledge who she will drive for in either chase abutting year, but the Indianapolis adversary would be Chip Ganassi Racing.
Patrick is the alone woman to accept led laps in both the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500.
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2:15 p.m.
NASCAR championship adversary Kyle Busch topped the acceleration blueprint in the aboriginal convenance for Sunday's division afterpiece at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Busch angry a lap of 172.695 mph and was followed by adolescent appellation contenders Martin Truex Jr. and Kevin Harvick. Busch, Truex and Harvick all angry seven laps. Brad Keselowski, the fourth disciplinarian in the field, was 21st on the blueprint afterwards aloof bristles laps.
Kyle Larson had the fastest 10-lap boilerplate at 165.012 mph.
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1:15 p.m.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. ran into problems in the aboriginal convenance affair of his final chase weekend.
Earnhardt's No. 88 Chevrolet had agent problems that will crave a new motor afore NASCAR's division afterpiece Sunday.
Earnhardt, who drives the Chevy for Hendrick Motorsports, will retire afterwards the Cup chase at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
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12:30 p.m.
Tony Stewart has enjoyed his aboriginal year of retirement.
The three-time NASCAR Cup best kept active active Stewart-Haas Antagonism and has disciplinarian Kevin Harvick antagonism for the championship Sunday.
Stewart has won championships as a disciplinarian and an buyer at SHR. This is the aboriginal time in the Cup alternation he'll be acclaim for a appellation from the pit box.
["388"]Beck's Home Furniture, Gifts and Interiors - Home | Facebook | Stewart And Beck Home FurnitureStewart has connected to run clay clue contest and attends best Cup races. SHR won the Daytona 500 with Kurt Busch.
"There was one being over the advance of the winter that told me this was activity to be a lot harder than I anticipation it was activity to be," Stewart said Friday. "I looked him and said, 'You're crazy. I already feel the weight off my shoulders.' But as the year's gone, they're right. It has been a lot bigger claiming than I anticipation it would be. I've been busier than I've been the aftermost bristles years."
Stewart owns chase tracks, teams, a dart car alternation and did what he capital this year in NASCAR on his own terms.
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11:45 a.m.
Martin Truex Jr. will accept his chase aggregation buyer auspicious him on from afar.
Furniture Row Antagonism buyer Barney Visser is alone in Colorado, convalescent from anaplasty and clumsy to biking afterwards adversity his own affection advance a anniversary ago.
"I am affiliated calm with argument letters with him," FRR admiral Joe Garone said. "It was a boxy operation. It's activity to booty time to area he can move around."
Garone said Visser will acceptable watch from his home.
The Denver-based Furniture Row runs its final chase as a two-car operation. Erik Jones will move to Joe Gibbs Antagonism in 2018 and FRR will abide to run with Truex.
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10:30 a.m.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. says he's at accord with his accommodation to retire.
Earnhardt is calling it a career afterwards Sunday's NASCAR Cup chase at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Earnhardt says he's been affected by the well-wishes and video tributes in his honor. The 14-time champ of NASCAR's best accepted disciplinarian accolade says he's advantageous and hopes to accomplishment the chase on his terms.
"It would be a bit of a heartbreaker if we accept the affectionate of affair that would booty us out of an accident and we couldn't finish," he said Friday.
Earnhardt is acclaim for adept acquaintance Martin Truex Jr. to win the Cup championship Sunday.
"I'm Aggregation Martin this weekend, for sure," Earnhardt said.
Earnhardt was additionally set to affectation for aggregation photos with acquaintance Matt Kenseth, additionally on his way out of NASCAR. Kenseth has no ride lined up for 2018
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10:15 a.m.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. says he would accede abiding to Homestead-Miami Speedway abutting division to drive in the Xfinity Alternation finale.
Earnhardt is set to retire from the NASCAR Cup Alternation afterwards of Sunday's division finale. Earnhardt had committed to two or three contest abutting year in NASCAR's second-tier series.
Earnhardt won after Xfinity Alternation championships in 1998 and 1999.
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10 a.m.
Defending Truck Alternation best and 2017 appellation adversary Johnny Sauter acquaint the fastest lap at 169.629 mph in the aboriginal convenance of the day. Christopher Bell, additionally amid the four championship contenders, had the best 10-lap boilerplate at 165.967 mph.
Austin Cindric was sixth and Matt Crafton 13th. Cindric, Bell, Crafton and Sauter are in the winner-take-all championship chase Friday at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Crafton is a backstab alternation champion, and Sauter won the appellation aftermost year.
The trucks authorize in the afternoon and the championship chase begins at 8 p.m.
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9:30 a.m.
Johnny Sauter active a arrangement addendum with GMS Antagonism the aforementioned day he was set to avert his NASCAR Truck Alternation championship.
The 39-year-old Sauter will chase for the championship Friday night at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Sauter, Matt Crafton, Christopher Bell and Austin Cindric are allusive for the appellation on the 1 ?-mile track.
Sauter says "to be able to attempt at this level, area you apperceive you could win any accustomed weekend, is absurd and I'm aflame to be able to abide with the No. 21 aggregation abutting year."
Sauter abutting GMS aftermost year, won three contest and the championship.
This year, the artisan won a career-best four contest and has a attempt to become the additional Truck Alternation disciplinarian to win back-to-back titles.
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