NASCAR Cup Richmond: Austin Dillon leads practice with option tire

Because of NASCAR’s decision to give teams the ability to use an “option” tire in Sunday’s night’s race, all teams got an extended practice session on Saturday afternoon.Teams had three sets of regular and one set of softer “option” tires for practice. All teams had to use regular tires in qualifying.Dillon, started on the option (softer) tire and then moved to the regular tire later …Keep reading