Power leads third practice at Barber
Team Penske-Chevrolet’s Will Power moved to the top of the time sheets in final practice before qualifying for the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama.
Will Power, Team Penske Chevrolet
IndyCar Series
The #12 Penske’s 67.0198sec fastest time was a scant 0.0975sec ahead of the Chip Ganassi Racing-Chevy of Scott Dixon, who has never finished off the podium at Barber since the event started back in 2010, but has also never stood on the top step.
Power looked to be on a fast lap in the closing moments but understeered at Turn 5.
Despite the top spots falling to Chevy, Honda again looked strong with James Hinchcliffe of Schmidt Peterson Motorsports and Carlos Munoz of Andretti Autosport finishing the 45-minute session in third and fourth, ahead of another Penske, that of current championship leader Simon Pagenaud.
Sebastien Bourdais maintained his strong form from yesterday, slotting the KVSH Racing-Chevy into sixth, ahead of Juan Montoya’s Penske and the second SPM-Honda of Mikhail Aleshin
Last year’s winner and runner-up – Josef Newgarden (Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet) and Graham Rahal (Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda) – completed the top 10.
Having gone without even a yellow flag in yesterday’s practice sessions, FP3 was red-flagged twice – once for a spin and stall from Max Chilton in the Ganassi #8, and again at the end when Takuma Sato dumped his AJ Foyt Racing-Honda in the gravel at Turn 5.
IndyCar 2016 Barber - Practice 3
Pos. | # | Driver | Team | Time |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 12 | Will Power | Penske (C) | 1:07.0198 |
2 | 9 | Scott Dixon | Ganassi (C) | +0.0975 |
3 | 5 | James Hinchcliffe | Schmidt (H) | +0.1127 |
4 | 26 | Carlos Muñoz | Andretti (H) | +0.1597 |
5 | 22 | Simon Pagenaud | Penske (C) | +0.2621 |
6 | 11 | Sébastien Bourdais | KVSH (C) | +0.3307 |
7 | 2 | Juan Pablo Montoya | Penske (C) | +0.3318 |
8 | 7 | Mikhail Aleshin | Schmidt (H) | +0.3355 |
9 | 21 | Josef Newgarden | Carpenter (C) | +0.3646 |
10 | 15 | Graham Rahal | Rahal (H) | +0.3759 |
11 | 41 | Jack Hawksworth | Foyt (H) | +0.4729 |
12 | 3 | Helio Castroneves | Penske (C) | +0.4804 |
13 | 14 | Takuma Sato | Foyt (H) | +0.5489 |
14 | 8 | Max Chilton | Ganassi (C) | +0.5537 |
15 | 28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | Andretti (H) | +0.6009 |
16 | 83 | Charlie Kimball | Ganassi (C) | +0.6963 |
17 | 10 | Tony Kanaan | Ganassi (C) | +0.7176 |
18 | 27 | Marco Andretti | Andretti (H) | +0.8391 |
19 | 98 | Alexander Rossi | Andretti Herta (H) | +0.8828 |
20 | 18 | Conor Daly | Coyne (H) | +0.9477 |
21 | 19 | Luca Filippi | Coyne (H) | +1.4684 |
C = Chevrolet, H = Honda
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