Bourdais leads practice 2 in Portland, then crashes

Sebastien Bourdais before he crashed

Sebastien Bourdais posted the fast time with about two minutes remaining in practice 2 for the Grand Prix of Portland, then promptly stuffed it into the tire barrier. The resulting red flag ended the session giving the driver of the No. 18 Dale Coyne Racing Honda the fastest time.

Will Power was the fast Chevrolet two-hundredths of a second behind Bourdias. Rookies Felix Rosenqvist and first practice leader Colton Herta were third and fourth respectively. Championship leader Josef Newgarden rounded out the top-five.

Alexander Rossi, No. 27 NAPA AUTO PARTS HONDA
Finished the day second overall with a best lap time of 0:57.5538
“We didn’t get a lap in on Reds, so I think our theoretical is being third quick. Overall, I’m super happy with the NAPA car. We’ll have to figure some things out overnight but overall I think the general pace is there and we just need to fine tune it."

Marco Andretti No. 98 OBERTO CIRCLE K / CURB HONDA
Finished the day fifth overall with a best lap time of 0:57.9006
“Practice 1 was alright – it’s always unclear with overtake. For Practice 2, I think we misread where the Reds were going to go so, we didn’t really wring it out. We ran the Warm Up on old tires, so we weren’t really anywhere. I think there’s more to come from the Oberto Circle K car."

Zach Veach No. 26 GAINBRIDGE HONDA
Finished the day ninth overall with a best lap time of 0:57.9619
Finished the Warm Up second on the timing charts
“Today went really good. I’m really happy with today. We were P7 this morning, and then P14 in the second session – but we never got a clean run on our reds, so I feel like that explains it. In the final Warm Up today, we were P2 and I feel that is the pace we have with the Gainbridge car. I’m excited to see what we can do tomorrow. We got our first [Firestone] Fast Six here last year and I think we have a car that is capable of that again. We just need a few more details in our recipe.

Ryan Hunter-Reay No. 28 DHL HONDA
Finished the day 11th overall with a best lap time of 0:58.1618
Recorded the fastest time of the day's Warm Up session
“It was a busy day. We are trying to work through a few issues we’ve had throughout the day. In the end, I think we found the issue, but it made it so that we couldn’t run the Reds in Practice 2. We had to run our Reds in Warm Up, which is actually an extension of Practice 2, I guess. Overall a bit of a muddied mess, but we figured out some things and hopefully tomorrow is a smoother day."

Pos	No	Name	Time	Diff	Gap	Speed	Engine	Team
1	18	Sebastien Bourdais	57.921	–.—-	–.—-	122.069	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing w/Vasser-Sullivan
2	12	Will Power	57.950	0.0289	0.0289	122.008	Chevy	Team Penske
3	10	Felix Rosenqvist	58.060	0.1389	0.1100	121.777	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
4	88	Colton Herta	58.085	0.1635	0.0246	121.725	Honda	Harding Steinbrenner Racing
5	2	Josef Newgarden	58.097	0.1756	0.0121	121.700	Chevy	Team Penske
6	27	Alexander Rossi	58.210	0.2889	0.1133	121.463	Honda	Andretti Autosport
7	22	Simon Pagenaud	58.221	0.2994	0.0105	121.441	Chevy	Team Penske
8	60	Jack Harvey	58.249	0.3276	0.0282	121.383	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing with Arrow SPM
9	5	James Hinchcliffe	58.279	0.3578	0.0302	121.320	Honda	Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
10	30	Takuma Sato	58.286	0.3643	0.0065	121.306	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
11	9	Scott Dixon	58.308	0.3863	0.0220	121.260	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
12	19	Santino Ferrucci	58.337	0.4159	0.0296	121.199	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing
13	98	Marco Andretti	58.362	0.4410	0.0251	121.147	Honda	Andretti Herta w/Marco & Curb-Agaj
14	26	Zach Veach	58.444	0.5225	0.0815	120.978	Honda	Andretti Autosport
15	21	Spencer Pigot	58.461	0.5398	0.0173	120.942	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
16	4	Matheus Leist	58.466	0.5449	0.0051	120.931	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
17	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	58.524	0.6029	0.0580	120.812	Honda	Andretti Autosport
18	15	Graham Rahal	58.606	0.6845	0.0816	120.643	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
19	20	Ed Jones	58.618	0.6967	0.0122	120.618	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
20	59	Max Chilton	58.638	0.7169	0.0202	120.577	Chevy	Carlin
21	7	Conor Daly	58.711	0.7898	0.0729	120.427	Honda	Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
22	23	Charlie Kimball	58.829	0.9078	0.1180	120.185	Chevy	Carlin
23	14	Tony Kanaan	58.840	0.9185	0.0107	120.164	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises

Combined Results

Rank	Car	Driver Name	Engine	Session	Time	Speed	Laps
1	88	Herta, Colton (R)	Honda	Practice 1	00:57.4293	123.115	32
2	27	Rossi, Alexander	Honda	Practice 1	00:57.5538	122.849	28
3	9	Dixon, Scott	Honda	Practice 1	00:57.7922	122.342	32
4	2	Newgarden, Josef	Chevy	Practice 1	00:57.8504	122.219	34
5	98	Andretti, Marco	Honda	Practice 1	00:57.9006	122.113	30
6	18	Bourdais, Sebastien	Honda	Practice 2	00:57.9213	122.069	29
7	5	Hinchcliffe, James	Honda	Practice 1	00:57.9479	122.013	31
8	12	Power, Will	Chevy	Practice 2	00:57.9502	122.008	36
9	26	Veach, Zach	Honda	Practice 1	00:57.9619	121.984	36
10	10	Rosenqvist, Felix (R)	Honda	Practice 1	00:58.0262	121.848	47
11	28	Hunter-Reay, Ryan	Honda	Practice 1	00:58.1618	121.564	30
12	30	Sato, Takuma	Honda	Practice 1	00:58.1906	121.504	34
13	22	Pagenaud, Simon	Chevy	Practice 2	00:58.2207	121.441	30
14	60	Harvey, Jack	Honda	Practice 2	00:58.2489	121.383	42
15	19	Ferrucci, Santino (R)	Honda	Practice 2	00:58.3372	121.199	33
16	4	Leist, Matheus	Chevy	Practice 1	00:58.3381	121.197	40
17	59	Chilton, Max	Chevy	Practice 1	00:58.3436	121.186	32
18	21	Pigot, Spencer	Chevy	Practice 2	00:58.4611	120.942	32
19	15	Rahal, Graham	Honda	Practice 1	00:58.4616	120.941	36
20	20	Jones, Ed	Chevy	Practice 1	00:58.5005	120.861	26
21	14	Kanaan, Tony	Chevy	Practice 1	00:58.6592	120.534	26
22	7	Daly, Conor	Honda	Practice 2	00:58.7111	120.427	37
23	23	Kimball, Charlie	Chevy	Practice 2	00:58.8291	120.185	38