Road America IndyCar: Hunter-Reay leads early warm-up session
Andretti Autosport’s Ryan Hunter-Reay was P1 in the early warm-up session that allowed drivers to lap on alternate and primary tires and practice hot pitstops.
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The 30-minute session which followed straight on from second practice and is a replacement for raceday warm-up, saw Hunter Reay lap in 1min44.4846sec, an average of 138.302mph. That was some 0.4192sec faster than Ed Jones in the Ed Carpenter Racing Scuderia Corsa-Chevrolet.
Colton Herta was third fastest for Harding Steinbrenner Racing ahead of Zach Veach in a second Andretti machine, while Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan’s Sebastien Bourdais clocked fifth fastest.
Marco Andretti and Alexander Rossi ensured all four Andretti machines were in the top six, while Tony Kanaan impressed again – as he had in FP1 this morning – with eighth fastest for AJ Foyt Racing-Chevy.
Graham Rahal was ninth for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda, while Santino Ferrucci – currently leading the Rookie of the Year standings, in 10th.
Takuma Sato briefly fell off the road at Canada Corner in the second RLLR car, while Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports’ Marcus Ericsson knocked down some on-grass advertising hoardings between Turns 6 and 7.
Besides that, the session was trouble-free.
Tomorrow’s third practice begins at 11.00am local (Central) time, with qualifying starting at 3.00pm.
P | Name | FTime | Diff | Gap | FSpeed | Engine | Team |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | 1:44.485 | --.---- | --.---- | 138.302 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
2 | Ed Jones | 1:44.904 | 0.4192 | 0.4192 | 137.749 | Chevy | Ed Carpenter Racing |
3 | Colton Herta | 1:44.986 | 0.5015 | 0.0823 | 137.641 | Honda | Harding Steinbrenner Racing |
4 | Zach Veach | 1:45.079 | 0.5946 | 0.0931 | 137.519 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
5 | Sebastien Bourdais | 1:45.161 | 0.6766 | 0.0820 | 137.412 | Honda | Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan |
6 | Marco Andretti | 1:45.468 | 0.9836 | 0.3070 | 137.012 | Honda | Andretti Herta Autosport w/ Marco & Curb |
7 | Alexander Rossi | 1:45.471 | 0.9862 | 0.0026 | 137.009 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
8 | Tony Kanaan | 1:45.738 | 1.2530 | 0.2668 | 136.663 | Chevy | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
9 | Graham Rahal | 1:45.805 | 1.3201 | 0.0671 | 136.576 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
10 | Santino Ferrucci | 1:45.855 | 1.3707 | 0.0506 | 136.511 | Honda | Dale Coyne Racing |
11 | Spencer Pigot | 1:46.035 | 1.5509 | 0.1802 | 136.279 | Chevy | Ed Carpenter Racing |
12 | Max Chilton | 1:46.092 | 1.6070 | 0.0561 | 136.207 | Chevy | Carlin |
13 | Josef Newgarden | 1:46.135 | 1.6500 | 0.0430 | 136.152 | Chevy | Team Penske |
14 | Matheus Leist | 1:46.262 | 1.7771 | 0.1271 | 135.989 | Chevy | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
15 | Takuma Sato | 1:46.326 | 1.8418 | 0.0647 | 135.906 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
16 | Felix Rosenqvist | 1:46.663 | 2.1787 | 0.3369 | 135.477 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing Teams |
17 | Marcus Ericsson | 1:46.722 | 2.2373 | 0.0586 | 135.402 | Honda | Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports |
18 | Patricio O'Ward | 1:46.780 | 2.2958 | 0.0585 | 135.328 | Chevy | Carlin |
19 | Will Power | 1:46.962 | 2.4774 | 0.1816 | 135.098 | Chevy | Team Penske |
20 | Scott Dixon | 1:47.018 | 2.5332 | 0.0558 | 135.028 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing Teams |
21 | Simon Pagenaud | 1:47.591 | 3.1060 | 0.5728 | 134.309 | Chevy | Team Penske |
22 | Jack Harvey | 1:47.713 | 3.2287 | 0.1227 | 134.156 | Honda | Meyer Shank Racing with Arrow SPM |
23 | James Hinchcliffe | 1:48.103 | 3.6189 | 0.3902 | 133.672 | Honda | Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports |
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