St. Petersburg IndyCar: Hunter-Reay fastest in second practice

Hunter-Reay’s Marco Andretti was the early pacesetter with a 61.1011sec and was eventually joined in the top three by the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing duo of Graham Rahal and Takuma Sato, before James Hinchcliffe’s Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsport car jumped to second

Then Hunter-Reay delivered his knockout blow, his average speed around the 1.8-mile street/airport course being 106.409mph.

Colton Herta’s Harding Steinbrenner Racing-Honda jumped to P3 with seven minutes to go, before Spencer Pigot grabbed second for ECR, and Andretti further trimmed his best time to send Herta down to fourth. The HSR-Honda would eventually coast to a halt out on course.

Carlin-Chevrolets starred to clock fifth and seventh, sandwiching Alexander Rossi (Andretti) and the Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports-Honda of James Hinchcliffe.

The three Team Penske-Chevys were only ninth, 10^th and 17^th for Josef Newgarden, Will Power and Simon Pagenaud respectively, while Scott Dixon and Felix Rosenqvist were 13^th and 14^th for Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda.

Zach Veach had a couple of trips off course, while Marcus Ericsson brushed the wall in the second Arrow SPM entry while running on his red tires.

Cla	#	Driver	Team	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	Mph
1	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	15	1'00.8969			106.409
2	21	Spencer Pigot	Ed Carpenter Racing	17	1'00.9812	0.0843	0.0843	106.262
3	98	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	10	1'01.0351	0.1382	0.0539	106.168
4	88	Colton Herta	Harding Racing	17	1'01.0776	0.1807	0.0425	106.095
5	59	Max Chilton	Carlin	16	1'01.1171	0.2202	0.0395	106.026
6	27	Alexander Rossi	Andretti Autosport	16	1'01.1388	0.2419	0.0217	105.988
7	5	James Hinchcliffe	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	13	1'01.1453	0.2484	0.0065	105.977
8	23	Charlie Kimball	Carlin	18	1'01.1681	0.2712	0.0228	105.938
9	2	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	12	1'01.1811	0.2842	0.0130	105.915
10	12	Will Power	Team Penske	19	1'01.1896	0.2927	0.0085	105.900
11	15	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	23	1'01.2129	0.3160	0.0233	105.860
12	30	Takuma Sato	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	17	1'01.2700	0.3731	0.0571	105.761
13	9	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	18	1'01.4284	0.5315	0.1584	105.489
14	10	Felix Rosenqvist	Chip Ganassi Racing	18	1'01.5020	0.6051	0.0736	105.362
15	20	Ed Jones	Ed Carpenter Racing	18	1'01.5158	0.6189	0.0138	105.339
16	4	Matheus Leist	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	18	1'01.5456	0.6487	0.0298	105.288
17	22	Simon Pagenaud	Team Penske	14	1'01.5514	0.6545	0.0058	105.278
18	18	Sébastien Bourdais	Dale Coyne Racing	15	1'01.5635	0.6666	0.0121	105.257
19	7	Marcus Ericsson	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	18	1'01.6238	0.7269	0.0603	105.154
20	60	Jack Harvey	Meyer Shank Racing	16	1'01.6610	0.7641	0.0372	105.091
21	19	Santino Ferrucci	Dale Coyne Racing	17	1'01.6736	0.7767	0.0126	105.069
22	14	Tony Kanaan	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	13	1'01.8667	0.9698	0.1931	104.741
23	26	Zach Veach	Andretti Autosport	11	1'02.0331	1.1362	0.1664	104.460
24	81	Ben Hanley	DragonSpeed	11	1'04.0776	3.1807	2.0445	101.127