Indy 500: Ganassi cars lead last practice before Carb Day
Alex Palou, Marcus Ericsson, Tony Kanaan and Scott Dixon occupied four of the top five speeds in the final race-trim practice at Indianapolis Motor Speedway before next Friday’s two-hour Carb Day practice.
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Palou and Ericsson gave Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda a 1-2 in the two hour session, with times in the 225.6 region, as all teams reverted from qualifying trim to raceday setups and 1.3-bar turbo boost and practiced making passes and gauging fuel mileage.
Those crews whose cars had run in the Fast Nine had to hurry to switch their cars to heavier downforce levels, but Ganassi excelled, as Tony Kanaan and pole-winner Scott Dixon finished the session fourth and fifth.
In among them was Conor Daly, showing Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet has raceday chops too, although all the fast times were set with the aid of a tow.
As expected, the Rahal Letterman Lanigan-Hondas shone in raceday trim, defending Indy 500 winner Takuma Sato and Graham Rahal and could pull off passes.
In the no-tow speed charts, the Andretti Autosport-Honda of Alexander Rossi was far and away the quickest on 221.042mph, compared with VeeKay on 219.512, but that was largely a result of cars rarely running solo.
The only obviously alarming moment came when Simon Pagenaud’s Chevy blew up in front of Sage Karam, on the 2019 Indy winner’s 22nd lap. However, by then he already knew that his Penske was fast and handling well having drafted past several cars.
His rookie teammate Scott McLaughlin turned the most laps, at 95.
All cars will have their engines changed before Carb Day's two-hour session, next Friday.
P |
Name |
FL |
Laps |
FSpeed |
Engine |
Team |
1 |
Alex Palou |
29 |
52 |
225.649 |
Honda |
Chip Ganassi Racing |
2 |
Marcus Ericsson |
4 |
54 |
225.632 |
Honda |
Chip Ganassi Racing |
3 |
Conor Daly |
19 |
70 |
225.453 |
Chevy |
Ed Carpenter Racing |
4 |
Tony Kanaan |
17 |
30 |
225.431 |
Honda |
Chip Ganassi Racing |
5 |
Scott Dixon |
1 |
30 |
224.802 |
Honda |
Chip Ganassi Racing |
6 |
Takuma Sato |
34 |
71 |
224.430 |
Honda |
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
7 |
Graham Rahal |
53 |
87 |
224.376 |
Honda |
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
8 |
Stefan Wilson |
3 |
76 |
224.209 |
Honda |
Andretti Autosport |
9 |
Felix Rosenqvist |
7 |
76 |
224.085 |
Chevy |
Arrow McLaren SP |
10 |
Marco Andretti |
16 |
87 |
223.843 |
Honda |
Andretti Herta-Haupert w/Marco & Curb-Agajanian |
11 |
Will Power |
41 |
70 |
223.565 |
Chevy |
Team Penske |
12 |
JR Hildebrand |
23 |
51 |
223.531 |
Chevy |
AJ Foyt Enterprises |
13 |
Alexander Rossi |
64 |
90 |
223.455 |
Honda |
Andretti Autosport |
14 |
Sebastien Bourdais |
69 |
81 |
223.446 |
Chevy |
AJ Foyt Enterprises |
15 |
Scott McLaughlin |
68 |
95 |
223.212 |
Chevy |
Team Penske |
16 |
Juan Pablo Montoya |
4 |
60 |
223.099 |
Chevy |
Arrow McLaren SP |
17 |
Santino Ferrucci |
40 |
40 |
223.055 |
Honda |
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
18 |
Sage Karam |
27 |
69 |
222.953 |
Chevy |
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing |
19 |
James Hinchcliffe |
23 |
90 |
222.754 |
Honda |
Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport |
20 |
Ed Jones |
61 |
79 |
222.670 |
Honda |
Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan |
21 |
Dalton Kellett |
27 |
37 |
222.569 |
Chevy |
AJ Foyt Enterprises |
22 |
Jack Harvey |
80 |
81 |
222.487 |
Honda |
Meyer Shank Racing |
23 |
Rinus VeeKay |
15 |
32 |
222.444 |
Chevy |
Ed Carpenter Racing |
24 |
Pato O'Ward |
43 |
51 |
222.336 |
Chevy |
Arrow McLaren SP |
25 |
Ed Carpenter |
7 |
58 |
222.277 |
Chevy |
Ed Carpenter Racing |
26 |
Josef Newgarden |
70 |
84 |
222.138 |
Chevy |
Team Penske |
27 |
Max Chilton |
48 |
50 |
221.970 |
Chevy |
Carlin |
28 |
Simon Pagenaud |
21 |
21 |
221.683 |
Chevy |
Team Penske |
29 |
Colton Herta |
39 |
70 |
221.410 |
Honda |
Andretti Autosport |
30 |
Helio Castroneves |
51 |
68 |
221.348 |
Honda |
Meyer Shank Racing |
31 |
Pietro Fittipaldi |
71 |
81 |
221.250 |
Honda |
Dale Coyne Racing w/Rick Ware Racing |
32 |
Ryan Hunter-Reay |
28 |
53 |
221.201 |
Honda |
Andretti Autosport |
33 |
Simona De Silvestro |
33 |
46 |
220.604 |
Chevy |
Paretta Autosport |
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