 On Friday afternoon Kyle Busch was fastest in the second practice session with a time of 29 @.@ 378 seconds , ahead of Kahne and Robby Gordon . Bowyer was fourth @-@ fastest ; Johnson was fifth and Truex sixth . Greg Biffle , Kurt Busch , Burton , and Martin followed in the top ten . Of the other drivers in the Chase , Edwards was eleventh @-@ fastest , Hamlin set the twelfth @-@ fastest time , and Harvick was 15th . Ryan Newman crashed and switched to a back @-@ up car . Later , on Saturday afternoon , Earnhardt paced the final practice session with a time of 29 @.@ 357 ; Kyle Busch was second and Hamlin third . Kahne was fourth @-@ fastest , ahead of Johnson and Bowyer . Biffle was seventh @-@ fastest , Truex eighth , Riggs ninth , and Robby Gordon tenth . Other Chase drivers included Jeff Gordon in 13th and Burton in 15th ; all were within three @-@ tenths of a second of Earnhardt 's time . 
