Gateway IndyCar: Daly tops evening practice, Kimball crashes

Daly had just lapped the 1.25-mile World Wide Technology Raceway in 24.7346sec – an average speed of 181.931mph, set without the aid of a tow – when Kimball washed out high through Turn 3 and struck the Turn 4 wall with his right-front corner.

The car drifted to a halt on the main straight with a torn up wheel and deranged right-front suspension, Kimball stepped out unaided, but the scheduled one-hour session was brought to a slightly premature halt.

Second-fastest was polesitter and championship leader Josef Newgarden whose Team Penske-Chevrolet was 0.6mph slower than Daly but 0.3mph faster than third placed Zach Veach in the Andretti Autosport-Honda.

Takuma Sato was fourth in the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda ahead of the two Chip Ganassi Racing-Hondas.

Tony Kanaan was an encouraging 12th for AJ Foyt Racing-Chevrolet, while Spencer Pigot was the busiest driver, turning 76 laps for Ed Carpenter Racing.

Saturday’s race gets the green flag at 7.45 local (Central) time.

Session results:

Cla	#	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Mph
1	59	Conor Daly	Carlin	24.7346		181.931
2	2	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	24.8191	0.0845	181.312
3	26	Zach Veach	Andretti Autosport	24.8574	0.1228	181.033
4	30	Takuma Sato	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	24.8691	0.1345	180.947
5	10	Felix Rosenqvist	Chip Ganassi Racing	24.8885	0.1539	180.806
6	9	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	24.9195	0.1849	180.581
7	22	Simon Pagenaud	Team Penske	24.9216	0.1870	180.566
8	27	Alexander Rossi	Andretti Autosport	24.9249	0.1903	180.542
9	19	Santino Ferrucci	Dale Coyne Racing	24.9355	0.2009	180.466
10	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	24.9841	0.2495	180.115
11	88	Colton Herta	Harding Racing	24.9898	0.2552	180.073
12	14	Tony Kanaan	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	25.0050	0.2704	179.964
13	7	Marcus Ericsson	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	25.0486	0.3140	179.651
14	5	James Hinchcliffe	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	25.0654	0.3308	179.530
15	18	Sébastien Bourdais	Dale Coyne Racing	25.1012	0.3666	179.274
16	15	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	25.1021	0.3675	179.268
17	98	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	25.1239	0.3893	179.112
18	21	Spencer Pigot	Ed Carpenter Racing	25.1254	0.3908	179.102
19	12	Will Power	Team Penske	25.1688	0.4342	178.793
20	23	Charlie Kimball	Carlin	25.1888	0.4542	178.651
21	4	Matheus Leist	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	25.3566	0.6220	177.469
22	20	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	25.4404	0.7058	176.884
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