IndyCar: Herta tops Practice 2 at Long Beach

With IndyCar drivers brushing the wall and damaging their suspension all around the track, Colton Herta kept it between the concrete walls again put up the fastest lap in the 2nd practice session for the Acura GP of Long Beach IndyCar race.

The session ended three minutes early robbing many drivers of their fastest lap, when Scott Dixon stuffed his #9 PNC Bank Ganassi Honda into the tire barriers.

Herta was the only driver to get into the 1m07s bracket with a time of 1m07.9783s, 0.1494s faster than the Penske Chevy of Will Power.

Herta’s Andretti Honda teammate James Hinchcliffe was third quick with a lap that was 0.2467s behind Herta.

The Penske Chevrolets of Josef Newgarden, Simon Pagenaud and Scott McLaughlin rounded out the top-6.

So, it appears pole position will be a battle between the Andretti and Penske teams starting at 3:00pm Eastern Time.

Practice 2 Results

Pos	No	Name	Time	Diff	Gap	FL	Laps	Speed	Engine	Team
1	26	Colton Herta	1:07.9783	0.000s	0.000s	19	21	104.221	Honda	Andretti Autosport
2	12	Will Power	1:08.1277	0.1494	0.1494	19	24	103.993	Chevy	Team Penske
3	29	James Hinchcliffe	1:08.2250	0.2467	0.0973	20	21	103.845	Honda	Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
4	2	Josef Newgarden	1:08.2922	0.3139	0.0672	18	21	103.742	Chevy	Team Penske
5	22	Simon Pagenaud	1:08.4297	0.4514	0.1375	22	23	103.534	Chevy	Team Penske
6	3	Scott McLaughlin	1:08.4771	0.4988	0.0474	19	23	103.462	Chevy	Team Penske
7	7	Felix Rosenqvist	1:08.4887	0.5104	0.0116	21	22	103.445	Chevy	Arrow McLaren SP
8	5	Pato O’Ward	1:08.5105	0.5322	0.0218	19	21	103.412	Chevy	Arrow McLaren SP
9	51	Romain Grosjean	1:08.5438	0.5655	0.0333	18	21	103.362	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR
10	60	Jack Harvey	1:08.5499	0.5716	0.0061	17	20	103.352	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
11	18	Ed Jones	1:08.5905	0.6122	0.0406	17	18	103.291	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan
12	15	Graham Rahal	1:08.6812	0.7029	0.0907	22	24	103.155	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
13	06	Helio Castroneves	1:08.6873	0.7090	0.0061	17	19	103.146	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
14	27	Alexander Rossi	1:08.7806	0.8023	0.0933	14	20	103.006	Honda	Andretti Autosport
15	30	Takuma Sato	1:08.8163	0.8380	0.0357	21	23	102.952	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
16	10	Alex Palou	1:08.8234	0.8451	0.0071	23	24	102.942	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
17	21	Rinus VeeKay	1:09.1359	1.1576	0.3125	16	19	102.476	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
18	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	1:09.1630	1.1847	0.0271	12	14	102.436	Honda	Andretti Autosport
19	11	Charlie Kimball	1:09.2189	1.2406	0.0559	15	19	102.354	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
20	9	Scott Dixon	1:09.2486	1.2703	0.0297	21	23	102.310	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
21	45	Oliver Askew	1:09.3257	1.3474	0.0771	18	21	102.196	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
22	8	Marcus Ericsson	1:09.3618	1.3835	0.0361	9	23	102.143	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
23	77	Callum Ilott	1:09.4052	1.4269	0.0434	18	21	102.079	Chevy	Juncos Hollinger Racing
24	59	Max Chilton	1:09.4357	1.4574	0.0305	22	23	102.034	Chevy	Carlin
25	14	Sebastien Bourdais	1:09.5250	1.5467	0.0893	13	19	101.903	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
26	20	Conor Daly	1:09.5382	1.5599	0.0132	18	21	101.884	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
27	4	Dalton Kellett	1:09.8651	1.8868	0.3269	19	22	101.407	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
28	48	Jimmie Johnson	1:10.2446	2.2663	0.3795	16	22	100.859	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing