St. Pete IndyCar: Rossi tops morning warm-up
Alexander Rossi put his Andretti Autosport-Honda on top in the warm-up for this afternoon’s Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg as several drivers experimented with push-to-pass and outbraking each other into the slippery Turn 1.
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As throughout practice and qualifying, several cars could be seen squirming under braking as they hit the painted runway stripes in the first corner, but it was 2016 Indy 500 winner Rossi who slotted into the top spot, 0.0468sec quicker than a late flyer from AJ Foyt Racing’s Tony Kanaan and 0.115 ahead of Ryan Hunter-Reay.
2017 St. Pete winner Bourdais took seventh ahead of James Hinchcliffe’s Schmidt Peterson car, with Will Power and Spencer Pigot completing the Top 10.
The race is due to start at 12.40pm ET.
Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, raceday warm-up
Cla | # | Driver | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 27 | Alexander Rossi | 1'01.6182 | |
2 | 14 | Tony Kanaan | 1'01.6650 | 0.0468 |
3 | 28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | 1'01.7338 | 0.1156 |
4 | 88 | Gabby Chaves | 1'02.0030 | 0.3848 |
5 | 1 | Josef Newgarden | 1'02.0438 | 0.4256 |
6 | 9 | Scott Dixon | 1'02.0806 | 0.4624 |
7 | 18 | Sébastien Bourdais | 1'02.1511 | 0.5329 |
8 | 5 | James Hinchcliffe | 1'02.3681 | 0.7499 |
9 | 12 | Will Power | 1'02.3917 | 0.7735 |
10 | 21 | Spencer Pigot | 1'02.5262 | 0.9080 |
11 | 22 | Simon Pagenaud | 1'02.5534 | 0.9352 |
12 | 26 | Zach Veach | 1'02.6113 | 0.9931 |
13 | 20 | Jordan King | 1'02.6279 | 1.0097 |
14 | 4 | Matheus Leist | 1'02.6286 | 1.0104 |
15 | 98 | Marco Andretti | 1'02.6366 | 1.0184 |
16 | 10 | Ed Jones | 1'02.6633 | 1.0451 |
17 | 59 | Max Chilton | 1'02.6730 | 1.0548 |
18 | 30 | Takuma Sato | 1'02.7527 | 1.1345 |
19 | 15 | Graham Rahal | 1'02.9290 | 1.3108 |
20 | 6 | Robert Wickens | 1'02.9568 | 1.3386 |
21 | 60 | Jack Harvey | 1'03.2674 | 1.6492 |
22 | 23 | Charlie Kimball | 1'03.5847 | 1.9665 |
23 | 19 | Zachary Claman DeMelo | 1'03.9533 | 2.3351 |
24 | 32 | Rene Binder | 1'04.4071 | 2.7889 |
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