St. Petersburg IndyCar: RLLR cars go 1-2 in warm-up
Takuma Sato and Graham Rahal hinted at Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda’s potential for this afternoon’s Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg after going 1-2 in the Sunday morning warm-up.
Takuma Sato, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda
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Sato lapped the 1.8-mile track in 61.0942sec, a mere 0.0811sec faster than teammate Rahal, while Andretti Autosport-Honda’s Ryan Hunter-Reay and Alexander Rossi, who have qualified fifth and sixth for the race, finished third and fourth in the session.
A bigger surprise was Matheus Leist who finished as top Chevrolet runner in fifth, 0.32sec off the top for AJ Foyt Racing.
Josef Newgarden, who finished the session sixth, had his practice halted early by a five-minute penalty for bringing out a red-flag when he spun his Team Penske-Chevrolet at Turn 13 and stalled.
A few minutes earlier, Scott Dixon, who has been wrestling his Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda all weekend, had a journey down an escape road but spun turn and rejoined. He ended the session in 10th.
Between Newgarden and Dixon were Marco Andretti (Andretti), Spencer Pigot (Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevy), and Zach Veach (Andretti).
Defending race winner Sebastien Bourdais was 15th for Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan, while polesitter Will Power clocked 17th, just behind teammate Pagenaud.
Raceday coverage begins at 12.30pm ET on NBCSN, with the green flag set to drop at 1.37pm.
Cla | # | Driver | Team | Laps | Time | Gap | Interval | Mph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 30 | Takuma Sato | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing | 19 | 1'01.0942 | 106.066 | ||
2 | 15 | Graham Rahal | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing | 19 | 1'01.1753 | 0.0811 | 0.0811 | 105.925 |
3 | 28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | Andretti Autosport | 11 | 1'01.3682 | 0.2740 | 0.1929 | 105.592 |
4 | 27 | Alexander Rossi | Andretti Autosport | 11 | 1'01.4047 | 0.3105 | 0.0365 | 105.529 |
5 | 4 | Matheus Leist | A.J. Foyt Enterprises | 17 | 1'01.4187 | 0.3245 | 0.0140 | 105.505 |
6 | 2 | Josef Newgarden | Team Penske | 7 | 1'01.4539 | 0.3597 | 0.0352 | 105.445 |
7 | 98 | Marco Andretti | Andretti Autosport | 7 | 1'01.4665 | 0.3723 | 0.0126 | 105.423 |
8 | 21 | Spencer Pigot | Ed Carpenter Racing | 20 | 1'01.4851 | 0.3909 | 0.0186 | 105.391 |
9 | 26 | Zach Veach | Andretti Autosport | 18 | 1'01.5338 | 0.4396 | 0.0487 | 105.308 |
10 | 9 | Scott Dixon | Chip Ganassi Racing | 8 | 1'01.5692 | 0.4750 | 0.0354 | 105.247 |
11 | 88 | Colton Herta | Harding Racing | 20 | 1'01.5864 | 0.4922 | 0.0172 | 105.218 |
12 | 19 | Santino Ferrucci | Dale Coyne Racing | 16 | 1'01.6452 | 0.5510 | 0.0588 | 105.118 |
13 | 14 | Tony Kanaan | A.J. Foyt Enterprises | 16 | 1'01.6608 | 0.5666 | 0.0156 | 105.091 |
14 | 10 | Felix Rosenqvist | Chip Ganassi Racing | 10 | 1'01.6981 | 0.6039 | 0.0373 | 105.028 |
15 | 18 | Sébastien Bourdais | Dale Coyne Racing | 5 | 1'01.7606 | 0.6664 | 0.0625 | 104.921 |
16 | 22 | Simon Pagenaud | Team Penske | 24 | 1'01.9475 | 0.8533 | 0.1869 | 104.605 |
17 | 12 | Will Power | Team Penske | 12 | 1'02.0470 | 0.9528 | 0.0995 | 104.437 |
18 | 20 | Ed Jones | Ed Carpenter Racing | 17 | 1'02.1073 | 1.0131 | 0.0603 | 104.336 |
19 | 7 | Marcus Ericsson | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports | 9 | 1'02.1620 | 1.0678 | 0.0547 | 104.244 |
20 | 5 | James Hinchcliffe | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports | 10 | 1'02.3789 | 1.2847 | 0.2169 | 103.881 |
21 | 59 | Max Chilton | Carlin | 12 | 1'02.4297 | 1.3355 | 0.0508 | 103.797 |
22 | 23 | Charlie Kimball | Carlin | 10 | 1'02.5196 | 1.4254 | 0.0899 | 103.647 |
23 | 60 | Jack Harvey | Meyer Shank Racing | 9 | 1'02.7050 | 1.6108 | 0.1854 | 103.341 |
24 | 81 | Ben Hanley | DragonSpeed | 8 | 1'03.7026 | 2.6084 | 0.9976 | 101.723 |
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