IndyCar: O’Ward tops Practice 2 ahead of GMR GP qualifying

Pato O’Ward turned the fastest lap on Firestone soft tires to top Practice 2 for the NTT IndyCar GMR Grand Prix on the IMS Road Course.

O’Ward’s time of 1m09.7839s on a hot sunny afternoon was 0.0298s faster than Ganassi Honda driver Alex Palou in 2nd and 0.058s faster than the Andretti Honda of Colton Herta.

Rinus Veekay put the ECR Chevy in 4th, 0.14s off the pace while rookie Christian Lundgaard was the fast Rahal Honda driver to round out the top-5.

Romain Grosjean managed 6th in his #28 Andretti Honda while his two other teammates Alexander Rossi was only 19th and Devlin DeFrancesco was only 22nd.

Whereas the opening practice was relatively incident free, this 2nd session saw a number of drivers go off course, with Jimmie Johnson dead last after a big spin into the pea gravel

Qualifying Groups (4:00pm ET)

Group 1

10 Palou, Alex

21 VeeKay, Rinus

28 Grosjean, Romain

7 Rosenqvist, Felix

12 Power, Will

45 Harvey, Jack

51 Sato, Takuma

2 Newgarden, Josef

06 Castroneves, Helio

9 Dixon, Scott

29 DeFrancesco, Devlin

6 Montoya, Juan Pablo

11 Calderon, Tatiana

Group 2

5 O’Ward, Pato

26 Herta, Colton

30 Lundgaard, Christian

20 Daly, Conor

60 Pagenaud, Simon

3 McLaughlin, Scott

8 Ericsson, Marcus

15 Rahal, Graham

27 Rossi, Alexander

77 Ilott, Callum

14 Kirkwood, Kyle

18 Malukas, David

4 Kellett, Dalton

48 Johnson, Jimmie

Practice 2 Results

Pos No Name Time Diff Gap Laps Speed Engine Team
1 5 Pato O’Ward 1:09.7839 0.000s 0.000s 18 125.823 Chevy Arrow McLaren SP
2 10 Alex Palou 1:09.8137 0.0298 0.0298 24 125.769 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
3 26 Colton Herta 1:09.8423 0.0584 0.0286 18 125.718 Honda Andretti Autosport
4 21 Rinus VeeKay 1:09.9265 0.1426 0.0842 19 125.566 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
5 30 Christian Lundgaard 1:10.0002 0.2163 0.0737 22 125.434 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
6 28 Romain Grosjean 1:10.0161 0.2322 0.0159 19 125.405 Honda Andretti Autosport
7 20 Conor Daly 1:10.0395 0.2556 0.0234 20 125.364 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
8 7 Felix Rosenqvist 1:10.0545 0.2706 0.0150 18 125.337 Chevy Arrow McLaren SP
9 60 Simon Pagenaud 1:10.0562 0.2723 0.0017 20 125.334 Honda Meyer Shank Racing
10 12 Will Power 1:10.0632 0.2793 0.0070 21 125.321 Chevy Team Penske
11 3 Scott McLaughlin 1:10.0794 0.2955 0.0162 23 125.292 Chevy Team Penske
12 45 Jack Harvey 1:10.0971 0.3132 0.0177 19 125.261 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
13 8 Marcus Ericsson 1:10.1436 0.3597 0.0465 23 125.177 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
14 51 Takuma Sato 1:10.2080 0.4241 0.0644 18 125.063 Honda Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR
15 15 Graham Rahal 1:10.2166 0.4327 0.0086 22 125.047 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
16 2 Josef Newgarden 1:10.2617 0.4778 0.0451 12 124.967 Chevy Team Penske
17 27 Alexander Rossi 1:10.2692 0.4853 0.0075 19 124.954 Honda Andretti Autosport
18 06 Helio Castroneves 1:10.2712 0.4873 0.0020 17 124.950 Honda Meyer Shank Racing
19 77 Callum Ilott 1:10.4747 0.6908 0.2035 19 124.589 Chevy Juncos Hollinger Racing
20 9 Scott Dixon 1:10.5045 0.7206 0.0298 24 124.537 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
21 14 Kyle Kirkwood 1:10.5316 0.7477 0.0271 20 124.489 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
22 29 Devlin DeFrancesco 1:10.5521 0.7682 0.0205 20 124.453 Honda Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
23 18 David Malukas 1:10.7052 0.9213 0.1531 17 124.183 Honda Dale Coyne Racing with HMD
24 6 Juan Pablo Montoya 1:11.0173 1.2334 0.3121 9 123.637 Chevy Arrow McLaren SP
25 4 Dalton Kellett 1:11.2065 1.4226 0.1892 16 123.309 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
26 11 Tatiana Calderon 1:11.3938 1.6099 0.1873 19 122.985 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
27 48 Jimmie Johnson 1:11.6939 1.9100 0.3001 22 122.471 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing

 

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