IndyCar: Rossi tops Practice 2 in Detroit

Andretti Autosport’s Alexander Rossi, a new contract in hand with Arrow McLaren next year, turned the fastest lap of 1m15.8101s in his #27 Honda in a red-flagged interrupted practice 2 for the Detroit GP.

Simon Pagenaud was 0.07s behind in his Meyer Shank Racing Honda

Josef Newgarden was the fastest Chevy in third, 0.1s back

Helio Castroneves and rookie David Malukas rounded out the top-5.

The red flag flew 5 times as driver after driver ran out of talent and either crashed or spun.

Practice 2 Results

Pos	No	Name	Time	Diff	Gap	Laps	Speed	Engine	Team
1	27	Alexander Rossi	1:15.8101	0.000s	0.000s	17	111.595	Honda	Andretti Autosport
2	60	Simon Pagenaud	1:15.8803	0.0702	0.0702	16	111.491	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
3	2	Josef Newgarden	1:15.9118	0.1017	0.0315	20	111.445	Chevy	Team Penske
4	06	Helio Castroneves	1:16.0412	0.2311	0.1294	19	111.255	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
5	18	David Malukas	1:16.1180	0.3079	0.0768	17	111.143	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing with HMD
6	3	Scott McLaughlin	1:16.2550	0.4449	0.1370	23	110.944	Chevy	Team Penske
7	7	Felix Rosenqvist	1:16.2628	0.4527	0.0078	15	110.932	Chevy	Arrow McLaren SP
8	29	Devlin DeFrancesco	1:16.3353	0.5252	0.0725	17	110.827	Honda	Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
9	10	Alex Palou	1:16.3849	0.5748	0.0496	23	110.755	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
10	28	Romain Grosjean	1:16.3981	0.5880	0.0132	16	110.736	Honda	Andretti Autosport
11	51	Takuma Sato	1:16.4348	0.6247	0.0367	19	110.683	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR
12	5	Pato O’Ward	1:16.9952	1.1851	0.5604	16	109.877	Chevy	Arrow McLaren SP
13	9	Scott Dixon	1:17.1030	1.2929	0.1078	17	109.723	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
14	8	Marcus Ericsson	1:17.1301	1.3200	0.0271	19	109.685	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
15	21	Rinus VeeKay	1:17.3610	1.5509	0.2309	14	109.357	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
16	77	Santino Ferrucci	1:17.3722	1.5621	0.0112	17	109.342	Chevy	Juncos Hollinger Racing
17	26	Colton Herta	1:17.4381	1.6280	0.0659	16	109.249	Honda	Andretti Autosport w/Curb-Agajanian
18	30	Christian Lundgaard	1:17.7231	1.9130	0.2850	16	108.848	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
19	12	Will Power	1:18.0033	2.1932	0.2802	18	108.457	Chevy	Team Penske
20	15	Graham Rahal	1:18.3290	2.5189	0.3257	14	108.006	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
21	48	Jimmie Johnson	1:19.1975	3.3874	0.8685	15	106.822	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
22	20	Conor Daly	1:19.2023	3.3922	0.0048	19	106.815	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
23	45	Jack Harvey	1:19.2203	3.4102	0.0180	21	106.791	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
24	4	Dalton Kellett	1:19.4241	3.6140	0.2038	11	106.517	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
25	11	Tatiana Calderon	1:19.5003	3.6902	0.0762	18	106.415	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
26	14	Kyle Kirkwood	No Time	—	—	—	—	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises