IndyCar: Rossi tops opening practice for Honda Indy Toronto

Andretti Autosport driver Alexander Rossi turned a fast lap of 1m06.6090s to top opening practice for the Honda Indy Toronto GP at Exhibition Place.

Four Honda powered cars set the fastest times with Simon Pagenaud 2nd fastest for Meyer Shank Racing, 0.09s behind Rossi.

Graham Rahal was third quick 0.094s behind Rossi with the Ganassi Honda driver Marcus Ericsson 4th quick.

The fastest Chevy was Josef Newgarden in the #2 Penske Chevy.

The session was interrupted by three red flags for Callum Ilott, Jimmie Johnson and Helio Castroneves. All drivers were ok and none of the crashes resulted in extensive car damage.

More to follow……

Practice 1 Results

Pos	No	Name	Time	Behind	Gap	Laps	Speed	Engine	Team
1	27	Alexander Rossi	1:00.6090	0.000s	0.000s	23	106.083	Honda	Andretti Autosport
2	60	Simon Pagenaud	1:00.6991	0.0901	0.0901	24	105.926	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
3	15	Graham Rahal	1:00.7031	0.0941	0.0040	27	105.919	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
4	8	Marcus Ericsson	1:00.7262	0.1172	0.0231	27	105.879	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
5	2	Josef Newgarden	1:00.7650	0.1560	0.0388	29	105.811	Chevy	Team Penske
6	7	Felix Rosenqvist	1:00.7936	0.1846	0.0286	23	105.761	Chevy	Arrow McLaren SP
7	26	Colton Herta	1:00.8689	0.2599	0.0753	24	105.630	Honda	Andretti Autosport w/Curb-Agajanian
8	9	Scott Dixon	1:00.9854	0.3764	0.1165	24	105.429	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
9	12	Will Power	1:00.9932	0.3842	0.0078	28	105.415	Chevy	Team Penske
10	10	Alex Palou	1:01.0522	0.4432	0.0590	33	105.313	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
11	30	Christian Lundgaard	1:01.1749	0.5659	0.1227	31	105.102	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
12	06	Helio Castroneves	1:01.2454	0.6364	0.0705	19	104.981	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
13	51	Takuma Sato	1:01.2604	0.6514	0.0150	30	104.955	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR
14	18	David Malukas	1:01.2627	0.6537	0.0023	25	104.951	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing with HMD
15	3	Scott McLaughlin	1:01.3171	0.7081	0.0544	31	104.858	Chevy	Team Penske
16	28	Romain Grosjean	1:01.3535	0.7445	0.0364	30	104.796	Honda	Andretti Autosport
17	29	Devlin DeFrancesco	1:01.5252	0.9162	0.1717	31	104.504	Honda	Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
18	45	Jack Harvey	1:01.6580	1.0490	0.1328	32	104.278	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
19	21	Rinus VeeKay	1:01.6766	1.0676	0.0186	25	104.247	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
20	5	Pato O’Ward	1:01.6906	1.0816	0.0140	26	104.223	Chevy	Arrow McLaren SP
21	14	Kyle Kirkwood	1:01.8350	1.2260	0.1444	27	103.980	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
22	20	Conor Daly	1:02.1501	1.5411	0.3151	25	103.453	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
23	77	Callum Ilott	1:02.6874	2.0784	0.5373	19	102.566	Chevy	Juncos Hollinger Racing
24	48	Jimmie Johnson	1:03.0238	2.4148	0.3364	37	102.019	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
25	4	Dalton Kellett	1:03.0873	2.4783	0.0635	29	101.916	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises