Rossi over Newgarden in third Long Beach IndyCar practice
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| Alexander Rossi fastest again |
Andretti Autosport's Alexander Rossi, with Honda power, just beat Penske Chevy teammates Josef Newgarden and Will Power for fastest time in the third practice session for the IndyCars on the streets of Long Beach, California.
Team Penske raised their game overnight and had three cars in the top-5 with the Honda of Ryan Hunter-Reay 4th and Penske Chevy driver Simon Pagenaud rounding out the top-5.
Rossi was also fastest in practice 2 Friday and the man who passed everyone twice at Phoenix after being almost 2 laps down has led 2 of the three practice sessions here. But can he do it again for pole or will the Penske shock cars be too much to overcome?
Rahal (Honda), Pigot (Chevy), Dixon (Honda) and Jones (Honda rounded out the top-10.
The red flag came out at the end of the session when rookie Jordan King collected the tire barrier.
Results
| Pos | No | Name | FTime | Diff | Gap | Engine | Team |
| 1 | 27 | Alexander Rossi | 1:06.611 | –.—- | –.—- | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
| 2 | 1 | Josef Newgarden | 1:06.652 | 0.0418 | 0.0418 | Chevy | Team Penske |
| 3 | 12 | Will Power | 1:06.828 | 0.2174 | 0.1756 | Chevy | Team Penske |
| 4 | 28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | 1:06.877 | 0.2662 | 0.0488 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
| 5 | 22 | Simon Pagenaud | 1:07.029 | 0.4188 | 0.1526 | Chevy | Team Penske |
| 6 | 15 | Graham Rahal | 1:07.043 | 0.4327 | 0.0139 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
| 7 | 21 | Spencer Pigot | 1:07.257 | 0.6460 | 0.2133 | Chevy | Ed Carpenter Racing |
| 8 | 9 | Scott Dixon | 1:07.349 | 0.7385 | 0.0925 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing Teams |
| 9 | 14 | Tony Kanaan | 1:07.366 | 0.7556 | 0.0171 | Chevy | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
| 10 | 10 | Ed Jones | 1:07.386 | 0.7758 | 0.0202 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing Teams |
| 11 | 18 | Sebastien Bourdais | 1:07.457 | 0.8462 | 0.0704 | Honda | Dale Coyne Racing |
| 12 | 20 | Jordan King | 1:07.514 | 0.9031 | 0.0569 | Chevy | Ed Carpenter Racing |
| 13 | 98 | Marco Andretti | 1:07.630 | 1.0195 | 0.1164 | Honda | Andretti Herta Autosport with Curb |
| 14 | 6 | Robert Wickens | 1:07.647 | 1.0369 | 0.0174 | Honda | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports |
| 15 | 30 | Takuma Sato | 1:07.812 | 1.2015 | 0.1646 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
| 16 | 88 | Gabby Chaves | 1:07.830 | 1.2193 | 0.0178 | Chevy | Harding Racing |
| 17 | 26 | Zach Veach | 1:07.863 | 1.2526 | 0.0333 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
| 18 | 60 | Jack Harvey | 1:07.979 | 1.3684 | 0.1158 | Honda | Meyer Shank Racing with SPM |
| 19 | 32 | Kyle Kaiser | 1:08.013 | 1.4029 | 0.0345 | Chevy | Juncos Racing |
| 20 | 23 | Charlie Kimball | 1:08.070 | 1.4591 | 0.0562 | Chevy | Carlin |
| 21 | 5 | James Hinchcliffe | 1:08.121 | 1.5103 | 0.0512 | Honda | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports |
| 22 | 59 | Max Chilton | 1:08.127 | 1.5165 | 0.0062 | Chevy | Carlin |
| 23 | 4 | Matheus Leist | 1:08.238 | 1.6275 | 0.1110 | Chevy | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
| 24 | 19 | Zachary Claman De Melo | 1:08.926 | 2.3157 | 0.6882 | Honda | Dale Coyne Racing |