Andretti stays perfect, tops final Pocono practice
Marco Andretti toped the final IndyCar practice for tomorrow's Pocono IndyCar 400 Fueled by Sunoco. With a lap of 219.120 miles-per-hour, Andretti bested Takuma Sato by 0.05 seconds. James Hinchliffe was third 0.06 seconds behind Andretti. Scott Dixon and Dario Franchitti rounded out the top-5.
Andretti will start tomorrow's race from pole and has led every practice and qualifying session since Thursday – in other words a perfect performance so far.
Brian C. reporting from Iowa
Results
Rank | Car Driver Name | Engine | Time | Speed | Diff | Gap | Laps |
1 | 25 Andretti, Marco | CHEVY | 00:41.0734 | 219.120 | –.—- | –.—- | 21 |
2 | 14 Sato, Takuma | HONDA | 00:41.1308 | 218.814 | 0.0574 | 0.0574 | 34 |
3 | 27 Hinchcliffe, James | CHEVY | 00:41.1412 | 218.759 | 0.0678 | 0.0104 | 34 |
4 | 9 Dixon, Scott | HONDA | 00:41.1814 | 218.545 | 0.1080 | 0.0402 | 36 |
5 | 10 Franchitti, Dario | HONDA | 00:41.2285 | 218.296 | 0.1551 | 0.0471 | 28 |
6 | 20 Carpenter, Ed | CHEVY | 00:41.2657 | 218.099 | 0.1923 | 0.0372 | 31 |
7 | 77 Pagenaud, Simon | HONDA | 00:41.3138 | 217.845 | 0.2404 | 0.0481 | 32 |
8 | 11 Kanaan, Tony | CHEVY | 00:41.3295 | 217.762 | 0.2561 | 0.0157 | 35 |
9 | 1 Hunter-Reay, Ryan | CHEVY | 00:41.3608 | 217.597 | 0.2874 | 0.0313 | 34 |
10 | 3 Castroneves, Helio | CHEVY | 00:41.3651 | 217.575 | 0.2917 | 0.0043 | 37 |
11 | 12 Power, Will | CHEVY | 00:41.4202 | 217.285 | 0.3468 | 0.0551 | 31 |
12 | 83 Kimball, Charlie | HONDA | 00:41.4227 | 217.272 | 0.3493 | 0.0025 | 29 |
13 | 55 Vautier, Tristan (R) | HONDA | 00:41.4530 | 217.113 | 0.3796 | 0.0303 | 36 |
14 | 67 Newgarden, Josef | HONDA | 00:41.4704 | 217.022 | 0.3970 | 0.0174 | 32 |
15 | 15 Rahal, Graham | HONDA | 00:41.5411 | 216.653 | 0.4677 | 0.0707 | 35 |
16 | 7 Bourdais, Sebastien | CHEVY | 00:41.6525 | 216.073 | 0.5791 | 0.1114 | 30 |
17 | 18 Mann, Pippa | HONDA | 00:41.6788 | 215.937 | 0.6054 | 0.0263 | 27 |
18 | 19 Wilson, Justin | HONDA | 00:41.7010 | 215.822 | 0.6276 | 0.0222 | 30 |
19 | 16 Jakes, James | HONDA | 00:41.7446 | 215.597 | 0.6712 | 0.0436 | 32 |
20 | 6 Saavedra, Sebastian | CHEVY | 00:41.7497 | 215.570 | 0.6763 | 0.0051 | 32 |
21 | 78 De Silvestro, Simona | CHEVY | 00:41.8043 | 215.289 | 0.7309 | 0.0546 | 38 |