IndyCar: Pagenaud tops first practice for Acura GP of Long Beach

In a session that was interrupted by a number of red flags, Simon Pagenaud turned a lap of 1m07.1991s in his #60 Meyer Shank Racing Honda to top the first practice session for the Acura GP of Long Beach on the most famous of all America street races.

Alexander Rossi was second fastest in his #27 Andretti Honda. 0.4021s behind the Frenchman.

Scott McLaughlin was third fastest in the #3 Snap-On Team Penske entry followed by his teammate, Josef Newgarden in the #2 Hitachi.

Marcus Ericsson, driving the #8 Huski Chocolate entry for Ganassi Racing rounded out the top five.

When the session started, the track temperature was 135 degrees which the drivers expected to not produce the grip that was out there. Pagenaud and Rossi both commented that the grip was much more than they expected with all the different rubber put down from all the other series racing here this weekend.

Practice 1 Results

Pos	No	Name	Time	Diff	Gap	Laps	Speed	Engine	Team
1	60	Simon Pagenaud	1:07.1991	0.000s	0.000s	18	105.430	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
2	27	Alexander Rossi	1:07.6012	0.4021	0.4021	22	104.803	Honda	Andretti Autosport
3	3	Scott McLaughlin	1:07.6720	0.4729	0.0708	19	104.693	Chevy	Team Penske
4	2	Josef Newgarden	1:07.7282	0.5291	0.0562	18	104.606	Chevy	Team Penske
5	8	Marcus Ericsson	1:07.8425	0.6434	0.1143	17	104.430	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
6	26	Colton Herta	1:07.8783	0.6792	0.0358	21	104.375	Honda	Andretti Autosport
7	10	Alex Palou	1:07.9113	0.7122	0.0330	16	104.324	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
8	12	Will Power	1:08.0000	0.8009	0.0887	21	104.188	Chevy	Team Penske
9	77	Callum Ilott	1:08.0201	0.8210	0.0201	23	104.157	Chevy	Juncos Hollinger Racing
10	14	Kyle Kirkwood	1:08.0221	0.8230	0.0020	20	104.154	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
11	9	Scott Dixon	1:08.0478	0.8487	0.0257	15	104.115	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
12	06	Helio Castroneves	1:08.1579	0.9588	0.1101	16	103.947	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
13	15	Graham Rahal	1:08.1737	0.9746	0.0158	14	103.923	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
14	5	Pato O’Ward	1:08.4147	1.2156	0.2410	9	103.557	Chevy	Arrow McLaren SP
15	7	Felix Rosenqvist	1:08.4615	1.2624	0.0468	17	103.486	Chevy	Arrow McLaren SP
16	18	David Malukas	1:08.4838	1.2847	0.0223	20	103.452	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing with HMD
17	45	Jack Harvey	1:08.5799	1.3808	0.0961	18	103.307	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
18	4	Dalton Kellett	1:08.7003	1.5012	0.1204	19	103.126	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
19	20	Conor Daly	1:08.7009	1.5018	0.0006	18	103.125	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
20	21	Rinus VeeKay	1:08.7706	1.5715	0.0697	13	103.021	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
21	30	Christian Lundgaard	1:08.7736	1.5745	0.0030	20	103.016	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
22	28	Romain Grosjean	1:08.8407	1.6416	0.0671	21	102.916	Honda	Andretti Autosport
23	29	Devlin DeFrancesco	1:09.0728	1.8737	0.2321	20	102.570	Honda	Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
24	51	Takuma Sato	1:09.2460	2.0469	0.1732	17	102.313	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR
25	48	Jimmie Johnson	1:09.6203	2.4212	0.3743	7	101.763	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
26	11	Tatiana Calderon	1:09.9823	2.7832	0.3620	18	101.237	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises

Practice 1 Results

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