Chase Briscoe leads NASCAR Cup Homestead practice; Larson brushes wall and Reddick wrecks

The one and only NASCAR Cup Series practice of championship weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway has concluded on Friday night, with Chase Briscoe sitting atop the speed charts with a 32.680s (165.238mph) lap.

He beat Austin Cindric by 0.073s, while distant title challengers Denny Hamlin and Christopher Bell were third and fourth, respectively. Ryan Blaney rounded out the top five.

Championship leader Kyle Larson was ninth, and found the wall several times as he worked the highest groove around the 1.5-mile intermediate track, suffering slight damage on the right-side of his No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. He wasn’t alone in brushing the wall, with Joey Logano among those who also got up into it during the session.

Cindric also led five-lap averages, while his Penske teammate Blaney led 10, 15, 20, 25, and even 30-lap averages.

“That’s probably pretty excessive,” said Larson about his wall contact after the session. “Yeah, I just didn’t feel very good. I don’t know, I didn’t feel comfortable for the first few laps, and then I would feel okay, and then I just didn’t have enough grip to run the wall like I needed to. I’ll just have to kind of think about that and what I was doing wrong, and then listen to my teammates, kind of what they had to say about their cars. But just a disconnect and (lack of) comfort, I guess, from the first few laps to the end of whatever. I didn’t get to run super long, but, I’m getting glued — stuck in the wall. So, yeah, that was not a great practice, but I haven’t really even gotten to dive into it yet.”

“I just didn’t have enough grip.”Hear from @KyleLarsonRacin following practice. https://t.co/GsIjLDCoqN

— NASCAR (@NASCAR) November 6, 2026

Reddick pit road accident

At the end of practice, there was an unusual incident as Tyler Reddick was attempting to perform a mock pit stop, but slammed into the back of a slowing Zane Smith at pit entry, spinning out and damaging the nose of his No. 45 car.

Team co-owner Michael Jordan looked on from the pits, dismayed, and Reddick was visibly frustrated after climbing from the car.

“Just sums up our year,” said Reddick. “When we have something that’s really solid, we find a way to screw it up. Me and Zane were both coming pit road hot, kind of almost at the point of no return. I realized he was really checking up big, and I saw that there was a car ahead, turning the garage. So, I’m guessing that’s where all of our trouble started. You know, we were both coming in hot, so expecting to roll down pit road, and I couldn’t tell who — oh, 34 [Todd Gilliland]. Yeah, there we go. I was looking at the replay, but that’s just what it felt like. You know, we were coming pit road hot, and he checked up, and I guess it was just cars coming in to turn into the garage … it just sucks.”

The opening to enter the garage is near the entrance to pit road, at an opening in the pit wall.

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— Skid (@WhoisSkid) November 6, 2026

cla#drivermanufacturerlapstimegapintmph

1

19

Chase Briscoe

Toyota

54

32.680

165.239

2

2

Austin Cindric

Ford

46

32.753

0.073

0.073

164.870

3

11

Denny Hamlin

Toyota

55

32.790

0.110

0.037

164.684

4

20

Christopher Bell

Toyota

63

32.797

0.117

0.007

164.649

5

12

Ryan Blaney

Ford

65

32.818

0.138

0.021

164.544

6

7

Daniel Suarez

Chevrolet

59

32.827

0.147

0.009

164.499

7

54

Ty Gibbs

Toyota

67

32.860

0.180

0.033

164.334

8

22

Joey Logano

Ford

49

32.911

0.231

0.051

164.079

9

71

Michael McDowell

Chevrolet

46

32.922

0.242

0.011

164.024

10

5

Kyle Larson

Chevrolet

44

32.948

0.268

0.026

163.895

11

23

Darrell Wallace Jr

Toyota

42

32.953

0.273

0.005

163.870

12

24

William Byron

Chevrolet

44

32.963

0.283

0.010

163.820

13

1

Ross Chastain

Chevrolet

49

32.984

0.304

0.021

163.716

14

67

Corey Heim

Toyota

49

33.004

0.324

0.020

163.617

15

16

AJ Allmendinger

Chevrolet

49

33.033

0.353

0.029

163.473

16

60

Ryan Preece

Ford

57

33.057

0.377

0.024

163.354

17

42

John Hunter Nemechek

Toyota

44

33.060

0.380

0.003

163.339

18

38

Zane Smith

Ford

54

33.060

0.380

0.000

163.339

19

9

Chase Elliott

Chevrolet

58

33.078

0.398

0.018

163.250

20

45

Tyler Reddick

Toyota

69

33.080

0.400

0.002

163.241

21

21

Josh Berry

Ford

41

33.132

0.452

0.052

162.984

22

48

Alex Bowman

Chevrolet

47

33.139

0.459

0.007

162.950

23

3

Austin Dillon

Chevrolet

60

33.148

0.468

0.009

162.906

24

4

Noah Gragson

Ford

52

33.192

0.512

0.044

162.690

25

6

Brad Keselowski

Ford

46

33.213

0.533

0.021

162.587

26

17

Chris Buescher

Ford

53

33.214

0.534

0.001

162.582

27

43

Erik Jones

Toyota

36

33.254

0.574

0.040

162.386

28

35

Riley Herbst

Toyota

53

33.273

0.593

0.019

162.294

29

34

Todd Gilliland

Ford

58

33.274

0.594

0.001

162.289

30

41

Cole Custer

Chevrolet

48

33.281

0.601

0.007

162.255

31

77

Justin Haley

Chevrolet

48

33.303

0.623

0.022

162.148

32

10

Ty Dillon

Chevrolet

46

33.345

0.665

0.042

161.943

33

88

Connor Zilisch

Chevrolet

50

33.381

0.701

0.036

161.769

34

47

Ricky Stenhouse Jr

Chevrolet

57

33.406

0.726

0.025

161.648

35

51

Cody Ware

Chevrolet

41

33.423

0.743

0.017

161.565

36

97

Shane van Gisbergen

Chevrolet

53

33.448

0.768

0.025

161.445

37

33

Austin Hill

Chevrolet

33

33.544

0.864

0.096

160.983

38

62

Casey Mears

Chevrolet

23

34.019

1.339

0.475

158.735

39

44

JJ Yeley

Chevrolet

21

34.189

1.509

0.170

157.946

40

66

Chad Finchum

Ford

23

34.396

1.716

0.207

156.995

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