Team Penske-Chevrolet’s 2018 winner Power set a 226.470mph lap on his 35th of 57 laps around the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway to edge 2014 winner Ryan Hunter-Reay in his Andretti Autosport-Honda.
Behind them was defending and two-time winner, Takuma Sato of Rahal Letterman Lanigan-Honda.
The Dreyer & Reinbold Racing-Chevy of Sage Karam landed P4 ahead of Conor Daly in the Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevy, with 2019 winner Simon Pagenaud completing the top six.
Pato O’Ward, IndyCar’s Texas winner for Arrow McLaren SP-Chevy made it seven drivers under the 40sec barrier with a lap of 225.146mph ahead of 2008 Indy winner and reigning IndyCar champ Scott Dixon in the Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda.
Other former winners looking strong were Dixon’s teammate Tony Kanaan in 11th and Juan Pablo Montoya in the third Arrow McLaren SP-Chevy (12th).
In terms of no-tow speeds, Ed Carpenter and one of his teammates Daly were first and third for Chevy, split by Dixon’s Honda.
Daly also owned the best trap speeds at Turns 1 and 3, and the start finish line (239mph).
Colton Herta of Andretti Autosport turned the most laps of the session at 72.
Practice resumes tomorrow at 12 noon local (Eastern) time, weather allowing, although the track will be open at 11am to allow RC Enerson of Top Gun Racing to finish his Rookie Orientation Program following his mechanical issue today .
In terms of mechanical issues, it transpired that Sebastien Bourdais’ fire after 27 laps of practice was indeed an engine failure.
P | No | Name | FTime | Diff | Gap | FL | Laps | FSpeed | Engine | Team |
1 | 12 | Will Power | 39.7403 | 39.7403 | 0.000 | 35 | 57 | 226.470 | Chevy | Team Penske |
2 | 28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | 39.7578 | 0.0175 | 0.0175 | 22 | 43 | 226.371 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
3 | 30 | Takuma Sato | 39.7998 | 0.0595 | 0.0420 | 13 | 58 | 226.132 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
4 | 24 | Sage Karam | 39.8332 | 0.0929 | 0.0334 | 31 | 43 | 225.942 | Chevy | Dreyer & Reinbold Racing |
5 | 47 | Conor Daly | 39.8865 | 0.1462 | 0.0533 | 35 | 65 | 225.640 | Chevy | Ed Carpenter Racing |
6 | 22 | Simon Pagenaud | 39.9592 | 0.2189 | 0.0727 | 40 | 64 | 225.230 | Chevy | Team Penske |
7 | 5 | Pato O’Ward | 39.9740 | 0.2337 | 0.0148 | 35 | 56 | 225.146 | Chevy | Arrow McLaren SP |
8 | 9 | Scott Dixon | 40.0021 | 0.2618 | 0.0281 | 8 | 48 | 224.988 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing |
9 | 18 | Ed Jones | 40.0621 | 0.3218 | 0.0600 | 55 | 58 | 224.651 | Honda | Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan |
10 | 8 | Marcus Ericsson | 40.0686 | 0.3283 | 0.0065 | 49 | 55 | 224.615 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing |
11 | 48 | Tony Kanaan | 40.0725 | 0.3322 | 0.0039 | 56 | 58 | 224.593 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing |
12 | 86 | Juan Pablo Montoya | 40.1099 | 0.3696 | 0.0374 | 4 | 44 | 224.384 | Chevy | Arrow McLaren SP |
13 | 16 | Simona De Silvestro | 40.1373 | 0.3970 | 0.0274 | 52 | 71 | 224.230 | Chevy | Paretta Autosport |
14 | 2 | Josef Newgarden | 40.1714 | 0.4311 | 0.0341 | 9 | 37 | 224.040 | Chevy | Team Penske |
15 | 21 | Rinus VeeKay | 40.2158 | 0.4755 | 0.0444 | 42 | 69 | 223.793 | Chevy | Ed Carpenter Racing |
16 | 29 | James Hinchcliffe | 40.2180 | 0.4777 | 0.0022 | 30 | 67 | 223.780 | Honda | Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport |
17 | 7 | Felix Rosenqvist | 40.2246 | 0.4843 | 0.0066 | 28 | 45 | 223.744 | Chevy | Arrow McLaren SP |
18 | 20 | Ed Carpenter | 40.2377 | 0.4974 | 0.0131 | 30 | 57 | 223.671 | Chevy | Ed Carpenter Racing |
19 | 98 | Marco Andretti | 40.2980 | 0.5577 | 0.0603 | 23 | 52 | 223.336 | Honda | Andretti Herta-Haupert w/Marco & Curb-Agajanian |
20 | 26 | Colton Herta | 40.2993 | 0.5590 | 0.0013 | 6 | 72 | 223.329 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
21 | 06 | Helio Castroneves | 40.3480 | 0.6077 | 0.0487 | 26 | 44 | 223.059 | Honda | Meyer Shank Racing |
22 | 27 | Alexander Rossi | 40.3581 | 0.6178 | 0.0101 | 31 | 63 | 223.004 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
23 | 10 | Alex Palou | 40.3792 | 0.6389 | 0.0211 | 12 | 53 | 222.887 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing |
24 | 11 | Charlie Kimball | 40.3938 | 0.6535 | 0.0146 | 25 | 36 | 222.806 | Chevy | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
25 | 3 | Scott McLaughlin | 40.4133 | 0.6730 | 0.0195 | 13 | 50 | 222.699 | Chevy | Team Penske |
26 | 15 | Graham Rahal | 40.4344 | 0.6941 | 0.0211 | 44 | 63 | 222.583 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
27 | 4 | Dalton Kellett | 40.4729 | 0.7326 | 0.0385 | 52 | 59 | 222.371 | Chevy | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
28 | 1 | JR Hildebrand | 40.4928 | 0.7525 | 0.0199 | 4 | 22 | 222.262 | Chevy | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
29 | 60 | Jack Harvey | 40.5199 | 0.7796 | 0.0271 | 34 | 56 | 222.113 | Honda | Meyer Shank Racing |
30 | 59 | Max Chilton | 40.5606 | 0.8203 | 0.0407 | 55 | 56 | 221.890 | Chevy | Carlin |
31 | 51 | Pietro Fittipaldi | 40.7657 | 1.0254 | 0.2051 | 46 | 52 | 220.774 | Honda | Dale Coyne Racing w/Rick Ware Racing |
32 | 45 | Santino Ferrucci | 40.7761 | 1.0358 | 0.0104 | 4 | 24 | 220.718 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
33 | 14 | Sebastien Bourdais | 40.8837 | 1.1434 | 0.1076 | 7 | 23 | 220.137 | Chevy | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
34 | 25 | Stefan Wilson | 41.1762 | 1.4359 | 0.2925 | 20 | 25 | 218.573 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |