Herta tops IndyCar Laguna Seca practice 1

Colton Herta

Colton Herta was again quickest in official opening practice 1 for the Firestone IndyCar Grand Prix at Laguna Seca in his Harding Steinbrenner Racing Honda with a time of 1m10.734s

Meanwhile championship contender Alexander Rossi and his #27 Andretti Honda team were choking as Rossi finished dead last. The way the weekend is going so far, Rossi can kiss his championship hopes goodbye.

Rookies ran 1-2-3 with Felix Rosenqvist and Santino Ferrucci 2nd and 3rd.

Will Power and Zach Veach rounded out the top-5.

Friday Practice 1 Results

Pos	No	Name	Time	Diff	Gap	Speed	Engine	Team
1	88	Colton Herta	1:10.734	–.—-	–.—-	113.904	Honda	Harding Steinbrenner Racing
2	10	Felix Rosenqvist	1:10.805	0.0719	0.0719	113.788	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
3	19	Santino Ferrucci	1:10.884	0.1502	0.0783	113.662	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing
4	12	Will Power	1:11.002	0.2689	0.1187	113.472	Chevy	Team Penske
5	26	Zach Veach	1:11.082	0.3481	0.0792	113.346	Honda	Andretti Autosport
6	22	Simon Pagenaud	1:11.152	0.4184	0.0703	113.234	Chevy	Team Penske
7	18	Sebastien Bourdais	1:11.158	0.4246	0.0062	113.224	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing w/Vasser-Sullivan
8	21	Spencer Pigot	1:11.238	0.5047	0.0801	113.097	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
9	2	Josef Newgarden	1:11.246	0.5125	0.0078	113.084	Chevy	Team Penske
10	4	Matheus Leist	1:11.270	0.5367	0.0242	113.046	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
11	98	Marco Andretti	1:11.283	0.5492	0.0125	113.026	Honda	Andretti Herta w/Marco & Curb-Agaj
12	7	Marcus Ericsson	1:11.302	0.5680	0.0188	112.996	Honda	Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
13	59	Max Chilton	1:11.411	0.6775	0.1095	112.823	Chevy	Carlin
14	9	Scott Dixon	1:11.445	0.7116	0.0341	112.769	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
15	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	1:11.453	0.7197	0.0081	112.756	Honda	Andretti Autosport
16	23	Charlie Kimball	1:11.547	0.8137	0.0940	112.608	Chevy	Carlin
17	14	Tony Kanaan	1:11.624	0.8902	0.0765	112.488	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
18	30	Takuma Sato	1:11.677	0.9438	0.0536	112.404	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
19	60	Jack Harvey	1:11.745	1.0114	0.0676	112.298	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing with Arrow SPM
20	25	Conor Daly	1:11.932	1.1985	0.1871	112.006	Honda	Andretti Autosport
21	15	Graham Rahal	1:12.004	1.2708	0.0723	111.893	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
22	5	James Hinchcliffe	1:12.013	1.2790	0.0082	111.881	Honda	Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
23	20	Ed Jones	1:12.160	1.4266	0.1476	111.652	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
24	27	Alexander Rossi	1:12.993	2.2597	0.8331	110.377	Honda	Andretti Autosport