Sato tops IndyCar Toronto GP Practice 3

Takuma Sato

In an extremely tight practice session, Takuma Sato came out on top of the 3rd practice session for the IndyCars on the streets of Toronto Saturday morning. Sato's lap of 58.678s in his Rahal Honda was just 0.0973s faster than the Penske Chevy of Josef Newgarden who crashed in Turn 8 at the very end of the session trying to avoid Robert Wickens who stuffed his SPM Honda head-on into the tire barrier with 15s to go in the session.

Will Power was third quick in his Penske Chevy with Alexander Rossi and Spencer Pigot rounding out the top-5.

Sato said the primary black tires Firestone brought to Toronto are very grippy, so grippy in fact that no one bother to do any qualifying simulations on the softer red tire.

Practice 3 Results

Pos	No	Name	Time	Diff	Gap	Laps	Engine	Team
1	30	Takuma Sato	58.678	0.0000s	0.0000s	22	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
2	1	Josef Newgarden	58.775	0.0973	0.0973	20	Chevy	Team Penske
3	12	Will Power	58.876	0.1981	0.1008	20	Chevy	Team Penske
4	27	Alexander Rossi	58.900	0.2220	0.0239	21	Honda	Andretti Autosport
5	21	Spencer Pigot	58.953	0.2752	0.0532	20	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
6	9	Scott Dixon	58.957	0.2792	0.0040	22	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
7	6	Robert Wickens	59.013	0.3351	0.0559	21	Honda	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
8	15	Graham Rahal	59.016	0.3380	0.0029	20	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
9	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	59.037	0.3589	0.0209	21	Honda	Andretti Autosport
10	10	Ed Jones	59.120	0.4425	0.0836	24	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
11	98	Marco Andretti	59.209	0.5310	0.0221	21	Honda	Andretti Herta Autosport with CA
12	18	Sebastien Bourdais	59.229	0.5515	0.0205	21	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing with VS
13	22	Simon Pagenaud	59.300	0.6227	0.0712	23	Chevy	Team Penske
14	5	James Hinchcliffe	59.357	0.6792	0.0565	22	Honda	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
15	26	Zach Veach	59.525	0.8473	0.1681	22	Honda	Andretti Autosport
16	14	Tony Kanaan	59.539	0.8610	0.0137	22	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
17	59	Max Chilton	59.674	0.9966	0.1356	23	Chevy	Carlin
18	20	Jordan King	59.681	1.0028	0.0062	21	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
19	4	Matheus Leist	59.740	1.0628	0.0600	24	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
20	88	Conor Daly	59.783	1.1058	0.0430	18	Chevy	Harding Racing
21	19	Zachary Claman De Melo	59.918	1.2404	0.1346	22	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing
22	32	Rene Binder	59.994	1.3161	0.0757	27	Chevy	Juncos Racing
23	23	Charlie Kimball	1:00.015	1.3371	0.0210	18	Chevy	Carlin