Daly heads Indy test Friday morning, all rookies cleared

Because of how much time was lost to rain yesterday, IndyCar started running at 9am U.S. ET, beginning with a session for the rookies and refreshers, whose track time yesterday was pinched by bad weather and eventually fading light.

Those starting the day still needing to complete their ‘Phase 3’ – 15 laps above 215mph – included Dale Coyne Racing with RWR-Honda duo Pietro Fittipaldi and Cody Ware, along with Simona de Silvestro of Paretta Autosport-Chevrolet, Max Chilton (Carlin-Chevy), and Sage Karam (Dreyer & Reinbold Racing-Chevy).

All have now fulfilled the requirements of IndyCar and Indianapolis Motor Speedway and are cleared to practice with others.

Once the track was open to all, the teams swiftly got on with running in packs, and Daly moved to the top of the times with a 224.790mph on the 16^th of his 23 laps so far. That was a mere 0.05mph faster than 2008 Indy 500 winner Scott Dixon of Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda who was 0.45mph faster than the Arrow McLaren SP-Chevy of Pato O’Ward.

As yesterday, Colton Herta’s #26 Gainbridge car heads the Andretti Autosport-Honda contingent, while one of last year’s Indy 500 revelations Alex Palou has ensured two Ganassi cars are in the top five.

The Rahal Letterman Lanigan-Hondas are being best represented currently by Santino Ferrucci in the third car, but Graham Rahal has the strongest no-tow lap speed of all at the moment, with a 221.949mph.

Second in the no-tows is Team Penske-Chevrolet’s 2018 Indy winner Will Power, although he sits 22^nd on the overall speed chart.

There are five hours left in the session which has resumed after a brief but heavy shower. Should further precipitation occur, IndyCar could feasibly extend track time to 7pm, as it did yesterday.

One car that will not be seen today is the #21 ECR-Chevrolet of Rinus VeeKay who suffered a big shunt in yesterday morning’s session, and is still nursing a broken finger.

P	No	Name	FTime	Diff	Gap	FL	Laps	FSpeed	Engine	Team
1	47	Conor Daly	40.0374	0.000	0.000	16	23	224.790	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
2	9	Scott Dixon	40.0462	0.0088	0.0088	2	11	224.740	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
3	5	Pato O'Ward	40.1304	0.0930	0.0842	36	55	224.269	Chevy	Arrow McLaren SP
4	26	Colton Herta	40.1422	0.1048	0.0118	42	45	224.203	Honda	Andretti Autosport
5	10	Alex Palou	40.1545	0.1171	0.0123	20	31	224.134	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
6	18	Ed Jones	40.1956	0.1582	0.0411	15	20	223.905	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing
7	22	Simon Pagenaud	40.2344	0.1970	0.0388	5	41	223.689	Chevy	Team Penske
8	20	Ed Carpenter	40.2707	0.2333	0.0363	32	42	223.488	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
9	45	Santino Ferrucci	40.3126	0.2752	0.0419	46	46	223.255	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
10	15	Graham Rahal	40.3213	0.2839	0.0087	35	35	223.207	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
11	48	Tony Kanaan	40.3404	0.3030	0.0191	38	39	223.101	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
12	06	Helio Castroneves	40.3974	0.3600	0.0570	3	21	222.787	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
13	3	Scott McLaughlin	40.4133	0.3759	0.0159	6	52	222.699	Chevy	Team Penske
14	98	Marco Andretti	40.4195	0.3821	0.0062	4	43	222.665	Honda	Andretti Herta-Haupert w/Marco & Curb-Agajanian
15	7	Felix Rosenqvist	40.4623	0.4249	0.0428	26	28	222.429	Chevy	Arrow McLaren SP
16	59	Max Chilton	40.4935	0.4561	0.0312	3	11	222.258	Chevy	Carlin
17	24	Sage Karam	40.5059	0.4685	0.0124	32	32	222.190	Chevy	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
18	86	Juan Pablo Montoya	40.5384	0.5010	0.0325	6	12	222.012	Chevy	Arrow McLaren SP
19	30	Takuma Sato	40.5755	0.5381	0.0371	26	26	221.809	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
20	60	Jack Harvey	40.5955	0.5581	0.0200	3	49	221.699	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
21	8	Marcus Ericsson	40.6259	0.5885	0.0304	29	68	221.534	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
22	12	Will Power	40.6486	0.6112	0.0227	39	43	221.410	Chevy	Team Penske
23	14	Sebastien Bourdais	40.6690	0.6316	0.0204	4	20	221.299	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
24	2	Josef Newgarden	40.6699	0.6325	0.0009	24	25	221.294	Chevy	Team Penske
25	29	James Hinchcliffe	40.6755	0.6381	0.0056	6	14	221.263	Honda	Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
26	16	Simona De Silvestro	40.7075	0.6701	0.0320	17	29	221.089	Chevy	Paretta Autosport
27	27	Alexander Rossi	40.7917	0.7543	0.0842	34	37	220.633	Honda	Andretti Autosport
28	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	40.9883	0.9509	0.1966	12	16	219.575	Honda	Andretti Autosport
29	4	Dalton Kellett	40.9922	0.9548	0.0039	13	15	219.554	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
30	51	Pietro Fittipaldi	41.2469	1.2095	0.2547	4	9	218.198	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing w/Rick Ware Racing
31	52	Cody Ware	41.7824	1.7450	0.5355	3	3	215.402	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing w/Rick Ware Racing