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Saturday Sprint Cup Practice: Four Hendrick Cars In Top Seven

by Jeff Gluck
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This is starting to look like another Hendrick Motorsports weekend.

Hendrick teammates Jimmie Johnson (189.694 mph) and Mark Martin (188.700) led the first of two Sprint Cup practices on Saturday, with the other Hendrick drivers coming in sixth (Jeff Gordon) and seventh (pole-sitter Dale Earnhardt Jr.).

Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Denny Hamlin (third) and Kyle Busch (eighth) were also among the top 10, which also included Kurt Busch (fourth), Kasey Kahne (fifth), Matt Kenseth (ninth) and Marcos Ambrose (10th).

Among those drivers who struggled? The Richard Childress Racing cars were all outside the top 15 (points leader Kevin Harvick was 19th), and Tony Stewart was 21st.

The final Cup practice begins at 12:20 p.m. local time.

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