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Kyle Busch's weekend at Texas Motor Speedway went from bad to worse during qualifying for the AAA Texas 500 on Friday night.

Having already destroyed his primary car in practice, Busch suffered yet another setback when he qualified 24th in his backup due to a fluid leak discovered during the second round of time trials. The backup seemingly had good speed as Busch had just posted the second-fastest time in the first round. But Busch started leaking water upon starting his second round run and was forced to the garage to diagnose the problem.

Crew chief Adam Stevens said the leak simply resulted from rushing their backup car to the track in the closing minutes of practice. The backup car hit the track 58 minutes after the primary hit the Turn 4 wall and Busch only completed four practice laps before the session reached its conclusion.

"I think it is a byproduct of pounding the fence before we even completed a lap in practice," Stevens said. "In our hurry to change the motor and all the drivetrain components afterwards, apparently we didn’t get the lower radiator hose completely clamped on the water neck out of the block. That proceeded to dump all the water out of it on pit road after our first run. We’re going to start 24th and get after them from there."

Busch has the speed to contend for the win but qualifying so far down the order will provide additional challenges. Pit stall selection is based on qualifying so Busch will have the 24th best stall availiable once the race begins on Sunday.

It's not insurmountable but it could cause problems for a driver only four points above the cutoff to advance to the Sprint Cup Championship Race at Homestead Miami Speedway.

Read more: http://autoweek.com/article/nascar-sprint-cup/kyle-busch-suffers-poor-qualifying-effort-backup-car-texas-nascar-race#ixzz4P5dumkEB

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Texas Practice #2:

NSCS Practice 2
Texas Motor Speedway
Provided by NASCAR Statistics - Sat, November 05, 2016 @ 10:29 AM Central
12th Annual AAA Texas 500

Pos Car Driver Team Time Speed Lap # # Laps -Fastest -Next
1 *21 Ryan Blaney # Borg Warner Ford 28.645 188.515 1 31 ---.--- ---.---
2 47 AJ Allmendinger Bush's Chili Beans Chevrolet 28.646 188.508 1 33 -0.001 -0.001
3 17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Fastenal Ford 28.747 187.846 1 44 -0.102 -0.101
4 13 Casey Mears GEICO Military Chevrolet 28.750 187.826 1 22 -0.105 -0.003
5 27 Paul Menard Schrock/Menards Chevrolet 28.789 187.572 2 34 -0.144 -0.039
6 95 Michael McDowell Thrivent Financial Chevrolet 28.797 187.520 1 38 -0.152 -0.008
7 24 Chase Elliott # Kelley Blue Book Chevrolet 28.828 187.318 2 41 -0.183 -0.031
8 6 Trevor Bayne AdvoCare/SEAL Legacy Foundation Ford 28.844 187.214 1 31 -0.199 -0.016
9 22 Joey Logano (C) AAA Ford 28.873 187.026 2 28 -0.228 -0.029
10 16 Greg Biffle Performance Plus Motor Oil Ford 28.890 186.916 2 27 -0.245 -0.017
11 31 Ryan Newman Grainger Chevrolet 28.954 186.503 1 36 -0.309 -0.064
12 44 Brian Scott # Albertsons/Tom Thumb Ford 28.982 186.323 2 42 -0.337 -0.028
13 14 Tony Stewart Bass Pro Shops/Mobil 1 Chevrolet 29.001 186.200 2 29 -0.356 -0.019
14 88 Alex Bowman(i) Nationwide Chevrolet 29.021 186.072 2 25 -0.376 -0.020
15 34 Chris Buescher # Love's Travel Stops Ford 29.043 185.931 2 38 -0.398 -0.022
16 48 Jimmie Johnson (C) Lowe's Chevrolet 29.062 185.810 2 35 -0.417 -0.019
17 15 Clint Bowyer 5-hour Energy Chevrolet 29.074 185.733 1 28 -0.429 -0.012
18 1 Jamie McMurray Cessna Chevrolet 29.101 185.561 2 37 -0.456 -0.027
19 78 Martin Truex Jr. Bass Pro Shops/TRACKER Boats Toyota 29.183 185.039 2 28 -0.538 -0.082
20 5 Kasey Kahne AARP Drive to End Hunger Chevrolet 29.206 184.894 2 34 -0.561 -0.023
21 7 Regan Smith Nikko RC/Toy State Chevrolet 29.218 184.818 1 29 -0.573 -0.012
22 19 Carl Edwards (C) Sport Clips Toyota 29.234 184.716 1 23 -0.589 -0.016
23 18 Kyle Busch (C) M&M's Toyota 29.236 184.704 19 31 -0.591 -0.002
24 20 Matt Kenseth (C) DEWALT FLEXVOLT Toyota 29.320 184.175 1 38 -0.675 -0.084
25 3 Austin Dillon Realtree/Bad Boy Chevrolet 29.324 184.150 3 33 -0.679 -0.004
26 38 Landon Cassill MDS Transport Ford 29.340 184.049 1 38 -0.695 -0.016
27 2 Brad Keselowski Alliance Truck Parts Ford 29.359 183.930 25 38 -0.714 -0.019
28 42 Kyle Larson Kimberly Clark Chevrolet 29.364 183.899 21 31 -0.719 -0.005
29 41 Kurt Busch (C) Haas Automation/Monster Energy Chevrolet 29.371 183.855 1 23 -0.726 -0.007
30 4 Kevin Harvick (C) Busch Beer Chevrolet 29.386 183.761 6 26 -0.741 -0.015
31 43 Aric Almirola Smithfield Ford 29.457 183.318 1 32 -0.812 -0.071
32 10 Danica Patrick TaxACT Chevrolet 29.606 182.395 3 32 -0.961 -0.149
33 11 Denny Hamlin (C) FedEx Office Toyota 29.614 182.346 10 19 -0.969 -0.008
34 46 Michael Annett Pilot Flying J Chevrolet 29.769 181.397 3 24 -1.124 -0.155
35 83 Matt DiBenedetto ZAK Backs the Blue Toyota 29.794 181.245 19 26 -1.149 -0.025
36 23 David Ragan Dr Pepper Toyota 29.825 181.056 2 33 -1.180 -0.031
37 *93 Ryan Ellis(i) Science Logic Toyota 30.064 179.617 3 19 -1.419 -0.239
38 *55 Reed Sorenson Trump - Pence Toyota 30.337 178.000 4 17 -1.692 -0.273
39 32 Joey Gase(i) Donate Life Texas Ford 30.987 174.267 9 10 -2.342 -0.650
40 *30 Josh Wise Curtis Key Plumbing Chevrolet 31.932 169.109 3 7 -3.287 -0.945

Best 10 Consecutive Lap Average

Pos Car Driver From Lap To Lap Avg Speed
1 19 Carl Edwards (C) 1 10 183.137
2 3 Austin Dillon 1 10 182.523
3 31 Ryan Newman 1 10 182.522
4 18 Kyle Busch (C) 19 28 181.828
5 15 Clint Bowyer 1 10 181.818
6 1 Jamie McMurray 1 10 181.810
7 42 Kyle Larson 1 10 181.706
8 2 Brad Keselowski 24 33 181.636
9 48 Jimmie Johnson (C) 1 10 181.439
10 20 Matt Kenseth (C) 18 27 181.422
11 34 Chris Buescher # 1 10 181.360
12 95 Michael McDowell 5 14 181.254
13 11 Denny Hamlin (C) 7 16 180.956
14 21 * Ryan Blaney # 15 24 180.550
15 27 Paul Menard 17 26 180.352
16 5 Kasey Kahne 9 18 180.269
17 47 AJ Allmendinger 19 28 180.205
18 44 Brian Scott # 19 28 180.195
19 17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 28 37 180.059
20 78 Martin Truex Jr. 19 28 180.053
21 10 Danica Patrick 1 10 179.377
22 24 Chase Elliott # 11 20 179.358
23 43 Aric Almirola 17 26 179.269
24 6 Trevor Bayne 19 28 179.093
25 4 Kevin Harvick (C) 16 25 178.449
26 83 Matt DiBenedetto 6 15 176.445

* Car must run 10 consecutive laps on the track to be included in the above chart.

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