Hunter-Reay again on top in practice 3

Ryan Hunter-Reay

Ryan Hunter-Reay has the bit between his teeth so far this weekend in St. Petersburg for the opening race of the 2019 NTT Data IndyCar Series. Fastest in session 2 and fastest overall on Friday, Hunter-Reay was again fastest in the final practice session for the Firestone GP of St. Petersburg on Saturday morning.

Penske Chevy driver Josef Newgarden was close behind in 2nd ahead of Takuma Sato in third in the Rahal Honda.

Simon Pagenaud (Penske Chevy) and Will Power (Penske Chevy) rounded out the top-5.

Four drivers caused a red flag and had to sit out 5 minutes of the session. Zach Veach had his second off of the weekend, Carlin's Max Chilton, rookie Ben Hanley and Ed Jones. Mark C. reporting from St. Pete

Practice 3 Results

Pos	No	Name	FTime	Diff	Gap	Laps	FSpeed	Engine	Team
1	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	1:00.897	–.—-	–.—-	13	106.410	Honda	Andretti Autosport
2	2	Josef Newgarden	1:00.901	0.0039	0.0039	17	106.403	Chevy	Team Penske
3	30	Takuma Sato	1:00.903	0.0067	0.0028	21	106.398	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
4	22	Simon Pagenaud	1:01.050	0.1534	0.1467	16	106.143	Chevy	Team Penske
5	12	Will Power	1:01.075	0.1784	0.0250	17	106.099	Chevy	Team Penske
6	20	Ed Jones	1:01.099	0.2021	0.0237	14	106.058	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
7	9	Scott Dixon	1:01.148	0.2516	0.0495	14	105.972	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
8	10	Felix Rosenqvist	1:01.168	0.2711	0.0195	16	105.938	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
9	88	Colton Herta	1:01.275	0.3788	0.1077	15	105.752	Honda	Harding Steinbrenner Racing
10	98	Marco Andretti	1:01.291	0.3948	0.0160	15	105.724	Honda	Andretti Herta Autosport with CA
11	4	Matheus Leist	1:01.371	0.4742	0.0794	16	105.588	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
12	5	James Hinchcliffe	1:01.401	0.5040	0.0298	15	105.536	Honda	Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
13	7	Marcus Ericsson	1:01.487	0.5901	0.0861	17	105.389	Honda	Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsport
14	18	Sebastien Bourdais	1:01.514	0.6175	0.0274	15	105.342	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan
15	15	Graham Rahal	1:01.588	0.6918	0.0743	21	105.215	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
16	23	Charlie Kimball	1:01.630	0.7329	0.0411	15	105.144	Chevy	Carlin
17	21	Spencer Pigot	1:01.678	0.7811	0.0482	11	105.062	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
18	27	Alexander Rossi	1:01.707	0.8104	0.0293	13	105.012	Honda	Andretti Autosport
19	26	Zach Veach	1:01.721	0.8240	0.0136	13	104.989	Honda	Andretti Autosport
20	14	Tony Kanaan	1:01.753	0.8567	0.0327	15	104.934	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
21	59	Max Chilton	1:02.046	1.1493	0.2926	10	104.439	Chevy	Carlin
22	19	Santino Ferrucci	1:02.203	1.3067	0.1574	16	104.175	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing
23	60	Jack Harvey	1:02.416	1.5192	0.2125	17	103.820	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing w/ Arrow SPM
24	81	Ben Hanley	1:03.498	2.6014	1.0822	10	102.050	Chevy	DragonSpeed