IndyCar: Herta tops practice 2 in St. Petersburg
Andretti Autosport’s Colton Herta turned a lap of 1m00.0779s to top the 2nd practice session for the Firestone GP of St. Petersburg IndyCar race in his Honda powered machine.
Last year’s race winner, Scott McLaughlin was 2nd fastest in his Penske Chevy, 0.1732s behind Herta.
Rinus Veekay was third while Kyle Kirkwood and Alex Palou rounded out the top-5.
Qualifying is up next – streamed live on Peacock.
Practice 2 Results
| Pos | No | Name | Time | Diff | Gap | Laps | Speed | Engine | Team |
| 1 | 26 | Colton Herta | 1m00.0779s | 0.000s | 0.000s | 25 | 107.860 | Honda | Andretti Autosport w/Curb-Agajanian |
| 2 | 3 | Scott McLaughlin | 1m00.2511s | 0.1732 | 0.1732 | 26 | 107.550 | Chevy | Team Penske |
| 3 | 21 | Rinus VeeKay | 1m00.4601s | 0.3822 | 0.2090 | 19 | 107.178 | Chevy | Ed Carpenter Racing |
| 4 | 27 | Kyle Kirkwood | 1m00.5294s | 0.4515 | 0.0693 | 21 | 107.055 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
| 5 | 10 | Alex Palou | 1m00.6960s | 0.6181 | 0.1666 | 28 | 106.762 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing |
| 6 | 8 | Marcus Ericsson | 1m00.7003s | 0.6224 | 0.0043 | 26 | 106.754 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing |
| 7 | 28 | Romain Grosjean | 1m00.7680s | 0.6901 | 0.0677 | 19 | 106.635 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
| 8 | 6 | Felix Rosenqvist | 1m00.8173s | 0.7394 | 0.0493 | 18 | 106.549 | Chevy | Arrow McLaren |
| 9 | 7 | Alexander Rossi | 1m00.8394s | 0.7615 | 0.0221 | 22 | 106.510 | Chevy | Arrow McLaren |
| 10 | 06 | Helio Castroneves | 1m00.8515s | 0.7736 | 0.0121 | 23 | 106.489 | Honda | Meyer Shank Racing |
| 11 | 5 | Pato O’Ward | 1m00.9306s | 0.8527 | 0.0791 | 20 | 106.351 | Chevy | Arrow McLaren |
| 12 | 18 | David Malukas | 1m00.9707s | 0.8928 | 0.0401 | 25 | 106.281 | Honda | Dale Coyne Racing with HMD |
| 13 | 30 | Jack Harvey | 1m01.0326s | 0.9547 | 0.0619 | 25 | 106.173 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
| 14 | 9 | Scott Dixon | 1m01.1383s | 1.0604 | 0.1057 | 15 | 105.989 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing |
| 15 | 45 | Christian Lundgaard | 1m01.1459s | 1.0680 | 0.0076 | 22 | 105.976 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
| 16 | 2 | Josef Newgarden | 1m01.2205s | 1.1426 | 0.0746 | 25 | 105.847 | Chevy | Team Penske |
| 17 | 20 | Conor Daly | 1m01.2629s | 1.1850 | 0.0424 | 26 | 105.774 | Chevy | Ed Carpenter Racing |
| 18 | 60 | Simon Pagenaud | 1m01.4110s | 1.3331 | 0.1481 | 22 | 105.519 | Honda | Meyer Shank Racing |
| 19 | 12 | Will Power | 1m01.4284s | 1.3505 | 0.0174 | 26 | 105.489 | Chevy | Team Penske |
| 20 | 11 | Marcus Armstrong | 1m01.4818s | 1.4039 | 0.0534 | 25 | 105.397 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing |
| 21 | 77 | Callum Ilott | 1m01.5098s | 1.4319 | 0.0280 | 21 | 105.349 | Chevy | Juncos Hollinger Racing |
| 22 | 78 | Agustin Canapino | 1m01.7063s | 1.6284 | 0.1965 | 23 | 105.014 | Chevy | Juncos Holling Racing |
| 23 | 14 | Santino Ferrucci | 1m01.8862s | 1.8083 | 0.1799 | 23 | 104.708 | Chevy | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
| 24 | 15 | Graham Rahal | 1m02.3046s | 2.2267 | 0.4184 | 21 | 104.005 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
| 25 | 55 | Benjamin Pedersen | 1m02.9862s | 2.9083 | 0.6816 | 25 | 102.880 | Chevy | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
| 26 | 51 | Sting Ray Robb | 1m03.2272s | 3.1493 | 0.2410 | 9 | 102.488 | Honda | Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR |
| 27 | 29 | Devlin DeFrancesco | 1m04.0365s | 3.9586 | 0.8093 | 4 | 101.192 | Honda | Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport |