Strange practice speeds

It’s a good day when you check online for practice speeds and your driver is well into the top 3 on the track. It’s gives you a little extra sense of hope, but once that wore off I noticed something weird. The speed differential between 1,2, and 3 in practice is minimal at .059 mph. While you want any advantage you can get, that doesn’t appear to be an unheard of difference. My concern is the difference between 3 and 4 is 1.371 mph and that is a HUGE jump between 3rd and 4th place. This isn’t even taking into account that 4th place is Kyle Busch and you know with 100% certainty that he’s getting every drop of speed out of that car it will give. It’s even worse when you take a look at Matt Kenseth you posted 45th in practice and was 7.238 mph slower than the #1 spot of The Dinger.

I’m just now getting a chance to look at all this, but it seems like A LOT of cars are lost right now and I’m not sure what that’s going to mean for Saturday night. That’s a ton of speed for a team to try and find in qualifying and 1 more practice.

Maybe I’m reading to much into it.