Herta tops tight practice 3 in Portland

Colton Herta

Harding Steinbrenner Racing's Colton Herta was again fastest in Practice 3 for the Portland GP IndyCar race to be run Sunday afternoon. Herta's lap of 57.994s on the hard black tires on his Honda was a stout lap and the only driver to dip into the 57-second bracket.

Championship point leader Josef Newgarden was 2nd quick at 58.102s in his Penske Chevy ahead of his teammate Will Power.

Ganassi Honda driver Scott Dixon was 4th quick while Andretti Autosport Honda driver Alexander Rossi rounded out the top-5 in what is pretty much a do or die weekend for the Californian as the Penske Team looks to ice him out of the championship hunt.

Less than 1-second topped the entire field on the short 1.967-mile lap. The lap record is by Justin Wilson in a Champ Car in 2005 at 57.597s – a record that has stood for 14-years when they didn't have soft qualifying tires.

Practice 3 Results

Pos	No	Name	Time	Diff	Gap	Speed	Engine	Team
1	88	Colton Herta	57.994	–.—-	–.—-	121.916	Honda	Harding Steinbrenner Racing
2	2	Josef Newgarden	58.102	0.1083	0.1083	121.689	Chevy	Team Penske
3	12	Will Power	58.173	0.1793	0.0710	121.541	Chevy	Team Penske
4	9	Scott Dixon	58.182	0.1882	0.0089	121.522	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
5	27	Alexander Rossi	58.214	0.2198	0.0316	121.456	Honda	Andretti Autosport
6	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	58.233	0.2392	0.0194	121.415	Honda	Andretti Autosport
7	60	Jack Harvey	58.278	0.2842	0.0450	121.322	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing with Arrow SPM
8	15	Graham Rahal	58.325	0.3312	0.0470	121.224	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
9	10	Felix Rosenqvist	58.370	0.3762	0.0450	121.131	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
10	18	Sebastien Bourdais	58.391	0.3973	0.0211	121.087	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing w/Vasser-Sullivan
11	59	Max Chilton	58.405	0.4108	0.0135	121.059	Chevy	Carlin
12	30	Takuma Sato	58.415	0.4210	0.0102	121.038	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
13	19	Santino Ferrucci	58.416	0.4224	0.0014	121.035	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing
14	5	James Hinchcliffe	58.446	0.4516	0.0292	120.974	Honda	Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
15	98	Marco Andretti	58.504	0.5096	0.0580	120.854	Honda	Andretti Herta w/Marco & Curb-Agaj
16	26	Zach Veach	58.512	0.5177	0.0081	120.838	Honda	Andretti Autosport
17	22	Simon Pagenaud	58.528	0.5345	0.0168	120.803	Chevy	Team Penske
18	7	Conor Daly	58.592	0.5984	0.0639	120.671	Honda	Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
19	21	Spencer Pigot	58.711	0.7173	0.1189	120.427	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
20	4	Matheus Leist	58.742	0.7478	0.0305	120.364	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
21	23	Charlie Kimball	58.757	0.7627	0.0149	120.334	Chevy	Carlin
22	14	Tony Kanaan	58.910	0.9163	0.1536	120.020	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
23	20	Ed Jones	58.959	0.9650	0.0487	119.921	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing