LONG POND, Pa. – Kurt Busch and Daniel Suarez paced a pair of Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice sessions on Friday at Pocono Raceway.

Busch was fastest in the second practice with a 52.110-second lap at 172.712 mph.  He was followed by Brad Keselowski, who was .277 of a second off Busch’s fastest lap/

Busch’s Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Kyle Larson was third, followed by Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Kyle Busch.

In the opening practice of the day, Suarez put his No. 41 Ford Mustang on the top of the practice charts. He led the way with a 52.565-second lap at 171.217 mph.

Ryan Blaney was second fastest in the first practice, followed by Alex Bowman, Kyle Busch and Keselowski.

Martin Truex Jr., who won the Coca-Cola 600 last week and the defending winner at Pocono Raceway, was 10th fastest in both practice sessions on Friday afternoon.

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series qualifying for the Pocono 400 is scheduled for 11:35 p.m. EST Saturday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Indian Motorcycle of Lexington Red Mile scheduled for Saturday at the Red Mile has been postponed due to inclement weather and rescheduled for Sunday.

On-track activity is currently scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. ET with gates opening for fans at 12 p.m. ET.

Event promoters and AFT officials continue to monitor developments in the weather forecast and will communicate any additional information to fans via AFT’s communications channels.

ELKHART LAKE, Wis. – Toni Elias emerged from the Friday fray as the fastest man in the MotoAmerica EBC Brakes Superbike class at Road America, but that was before his time was disallowed.

His fastest lap was disallowed in the final session for the loss of custody of the bike at the end of session. That miscue by the current Superbike Championship points leader dropped him to third in the combined times and allowed Cameron Beaubier to move to the top in the Dunlop Championship at Road America.

“This morning, first practice, I was a little slow to get up to speed and the wind was kind of affecting everyone, blowing us around,” Beaubier said. “That was something to get used to. All in all, it wasn’t too bad and we led the first session by a little bit. Second practice, made a couple of changes chassis-wise and struggled a little bit with a couple of things that we’re going to work on for tomorrow.

“I noticed Toni (Elias) was a chunk faster than us, like three or four tenths, so definitely we have to do our homework tonight and come out swinging tomorrow. All in all, felt like I wasn’t piecing the track together like I was last year. My times were slower than what they were last year on Friday. I wasn’t super comfortable, but I’m still happy to be up with those guys, looking at the positives. I’m curious to see what the weather is going to be like tomorrow. We will see what happens, but no matter what we will be ready to go.”

Elias had ended up on top via his 2:12.444 lap on Friday afternoon, the Spaniard besting Beaubier by .421 of a second. Beaubier, meanwhile, had put his Monster Energy/Yamalube/Yamaha Factory Racing YZF-R1 in second, leading his teammate Garrett Gerloff by .308 of a second. But that was before Elias was penalized.

The Spaniard encountered electrical issues and made his way back down toward turn five on an ill-running motorcycle. He then left the track and rode the bike back to the paddock. At that point, he was in violation of the rules and his lap times from the session were disallowed. Elias, with his 2:13.603 from the morning session, was dropped to third fastest on the day.

“Today went pretty well,” Elias said, prior to learning of his penalty. “The bike is pretty different than last year. We move in the same direction as last year to see if all the pumping problems from last year can come back for this race. The problems of pumping came back when we did the same moves as last year so it’s good to know and not on Sunday. We found out on Friday so for this afternoon we moved in another direction so it works so well because in five or six laps we are running in 12s (2:12 lap times) very consistent and very comfortable.

“We need to improve if we want to continue like this because the other rivals will improve too for tomorrow. I’m happy. We had an electrical problem because we did just six or seven laps. The first time I could come back to the pit, but the second time I couldn’t come back to the pit. The bike stopped, I switched the bike on and then I had to take the bike to the track but only with 2000 rpm. I hear that you cannot do that, so what do I have to do? I have to stop the bike and it wasn’t working so being in the middle of the way was not okay. What I did in VIR was not okay. Today I brought the bike to the pit and I hope everything will be fine.”

Westby Racing’s Mathew Scholtz ended the day fourth fastest, one spot better than Yoshimura Suzuki’s Josh Herrin.

M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Bobby Fong and Sean Dylan Kelly gave the team a one-two finish in the Supersport provisional qualifying session on Friday afternoon. Fong was best, turning in a 2:19.814 on his final lap to snatch provisional pole from Kelly, the Floridian ending up .575 of a second behind.

The Stock 1000 provisional pole went to Geoff May, the veteran racer besting defending class champion Andrew Lee. Weir Everywhere Racing BMW’s Travis Wyman rounds out the provisional front row going into tomorrow’s final qualifying.

Rocco Landers put a half a second between himself and his closest rival Dallas Daniels in advance of Saturday’s final qualifying session for the Liqui Moly Junior Cup class. The rest of the class finds itself in a hole, with Kevin Olmedo third, but 1.7 seconds behind Landers, who has won three of the first four races so far in 2019.

Michael Barnes led Kris Turner to lead the only Twins Cup practice session of the day.

TORONTO -- The NBA correctly anticipated that television ratings would dip for Game 1 of the NBA Finals, for two very important reasons.

There's no LeBron James.

And Canadian numbers don't count.

ESPN said Friday that the Game 1 of the Toronto-Golden State series drew a 10.1 overnight rating, the lowest for Game 1 of a title series in a decade -- though all the numbers come with a serious catch. Canadian viewership does not count toward the metered-market ratings formula used in the U.S., and it was the most-watched NBA game in Canada's history.

"Put aside perception, there is the actuality of the ratings," NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Friday. "Of course, I pay a lot of attention to those. I also pay a lot of attention to the numbers in Canada, where we set an all-time record for viewership. In the U.S., I recognize it's a changing television marketplace. We knew we would be down a bit by virtue of both not having two U.S. markets and we've come off eight years of having LeBron James in the finals."

Meanwhile, the first finals game for a Canadian team was a smash north of the border.

It was the most-watched NBA game on Sportsnet, reaching 7.4 million Canadians -- basically 20 percent of the nation's population. The average size of the Canadian audience, Sportsnet said, was 3.3 million viewers and peaked in the final minutes of the game with 4.1 million Canadians tuning in to see the finish.

Ratings throughout the playoffs have been down in the NBA, with James and the Los Angeles Lakers not making the playoffs surely a major factor.

"I'm not overly concerned," Silver said about the current numbers. "But I'm certainly paying attention to it."