IndyCar: Herta tops morning warm-up in St. Petersburg

Andretti Autosport teammates Colton Herta and Kyle Kirkwood ran 1-2 in final IndyCar warm-up ahead of the season opener Firestone GP of St. Petersburg this afternoon.

Honda-powered cars ran 1-2-3-4 in the warm-up.

Andretti teammates Romain Grosjean and Colton Herta will start 1-2 today.

Former Formula One driver Romain Grosjean claimed his second career NTT INDYCAR SERIES pole position, going P1 in the final round of “knockout” qualifying to open the season at the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.

The Swiss-born Florida resident put his #28 Andretti Autosport Honda first on the grid with a lap time of 59.5532 at his “home” race, lining up alongside teammate Colton Herta aboard the #26 Andretti Autosport Honda.

The pole for Grosjean and Honda was also the first for a major racing series using 100% renewable fuel. The second-generation ethanol supplied to the full INDYCAR field by Shell provides a 60% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and does not impact the food chain.

Warmup Times

Pos	No	Name	Time	Diff	Gap	Laps	Speed	Engine	Team
1	26	Colton Herta	1:00.5886	0.000s	0.000s	19	106.951	Honda	Andretti Autosport w/Curb-Agajanian
2	27	Kyle Kirkwood	1:00.7213	0.1327	0.1327	22	106.717	Honda	Andretti Autosport
3	9	Scott Dixon	1:00.8377	0.2491	0.1164	22	106.513	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
4	06	Helio Castroneves	1:00.9833	0.3947	0.1456	24	106.259	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
5	77	Callum Ilott	1:01.0320	0.4434	0.0487	26	106.174	Chevy	Juncos Hollinger Racing
6	2	Josef Newgarden	1:01.0405	0.4519	0.0085	25	106.159	Chevy	Team Penske
7	10	Alex Palou	1:01.1932	0.6046	0.1527	21	105.894	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
8	12	Will Power	1:01.2204	0.6318	0.0272	25	105.847	Chevy	Team Penske
9	60	Simon Pagenaud	1:01.2490	0.6604	0.0286	22	105.798	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
10	8	Marcus Ericsson	1:01.2596	0.6710	0.0106	26	105.779	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
11	28	Romain Grosjean	1:01.2888	0.7002	0.0292	25	105.729	Honda	Andretti Autosport
12	29	Devlin DeFrancesco	1:01.3403	0.7517	0.0515	22	105.640	Honda	Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
13	45	Christian Lundgaard	1:01.3780	0.7894	0.0377	18	105.575	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
14	11	Marcus Armstrong	1:01.4183	0.8297	0.0403	26	105.506	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
15	15	Graham Rahal	1:01.4406	0.8520	0.0223	21	105.468	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
16	30	Jack Harvey	1:01.4864	0.8978	0.0458	23	105.389	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
17	3	Scott McLaughlin	1:01.4935	0.9049	0.0071	24	105.377	Chevy	Team Penske
18	21	Rinus VeeKay	1:01.5159	0.9273	0.0224	26	105.339	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
19	5	Pato O’Ward	1:01.5381	0.9495	0.0222	22	105.301	Chevy	Arrow McLaren
20	6	Felix Rosenqvist	1:01.5382	0.9496	0.0001	22	105.300	Chevy	Arrow McLaren
21	18	David Malukas	1:01.8739	1.2853	0.3357	26	104.729	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing with HMD
22	78	Agustin Canapino	1:01.9456	1.3570	0.0717	19	104.608	Chevy	Juncos Holling Racing
23	20	Conor Daly	1:02.0744	1.4858	0.1288	23	104.391	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
24	7	Alexander Rossi	1:02.1967	1.6081	0.1223	22	104.186	Chevy	Arrow McLaren
25	51	Sting Ray Robb	1:02.5812	1.9926	0.3845	21	103.545	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR
26	14	Santino Ferrucci	1:02.7215	2.1329	0.1403	22	103.314	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
27	55	Benjamin Pedersen	1:03.1406	2.5520	0.4191	19	102.628	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises