Newgarden tops 3rd IndyCar practice at Road America

Josef Newgarden won last year and looks to repeat

Josef Newgarden put up a quick lap of 1m42.8825s and then Graham Rahal crashed in Turn 7 and brought out the red flag that ending the third practice session early for the Rev Group Grand Prix at Road America.

Rookie Colton Herta was 2nd quick at 1m43.1697s followed by Will Power, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Alexander Rossi and Spencer Pigot, however, their fast laps all were ruined by the Red Flag.

IndyCar has to lengthen the sessions at Road America because the laps are so long and any stoppage means the drivers gets very few laps in. They were criticized for this last year but did nothing about it..

Practice 3 Results

Pos	No	Name	Time	Diff	Gap	Speed	Engine	Team
1	2	Josef Newgarden	1:42.882	–.—-	–.—-	140.455	Chevy	Team Penske
2	88	Colton Herta	1:43.170	0.2872	0.2872	140.064	Honda	Harding Steinbrenner Racing
3	12	Will Power	1:43.184	0.3013	0.0141	140.045	Chevy	Team Penske
4	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	1:43.202	0.3198	0.0185	140.020	Honda	Andretti Autosport
5	27	Alexander Rossi	1:43.334	0.4516	0.1318	139.842	Honda	Andretti Autosport
6	21	Spencer Pigot	1:43.416	0.5333	0.0817	139.731	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
7	10	Felix Rosenqvist	1:43.540	0.6580	0.1247	139.563	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
8	19	Santino Ferrucci	1:43.672	0.7891	0.1311	139.386	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing
9	5	James Hinchcliffe	1:43.737	0.8542	0.0651	139.299	Honda	Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
10	31	Patricio O'Ward	1:43.757	0.8742	0.0200	139.272	Chevy	Carlin
11	26	Zach Veach	1:43.758	0.8755	0.0013	139.270	Honda	Andretti Autosport
12	9	Scott Dixon	1:43.796	0.9137	0.0382	139.219	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
13	22	Simon Pagenaud	1:43.860	0.9773	0.0636	139.134	Chevy	Team Penske
14	18	Sebastien Bourdais	1:43.862	0.9793	0.0020	139.131	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing w/Vasser-Sullivan
15	98	Marco Andretti	1:43.922	1.0400	0.0607	139.050	Honda	Andretti Herta w/ Marco & Curb
16	15	Graham Rahal	1:43.942	1.0595	0.0195	139.024	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
17	20	Ed Jones	1:43.949	1.0662	0.0067	139.015	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
18	30	Takuma Sato	1:44.024	1.1412	0.0750	138.914	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
19	14	Tony Kanaan	1:44.099	1.2167	0.0755	138.814	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
20	7	Marcus Ericsson	1:44.113	1.2306	0.0139	138.795	Honda	Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
21	59	Max Chilton	1:44.222	1.3400	0.1094	138.650	Chevy	Carlin
22	60	Jack Harvey	1:44.649	1.7662	0.4262	138.085	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing w/Arrow SPM
23	4	Matheus Leist	1:44.712	1.8294	0.0632	138.002	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprise