IndyCar: Palou tops Practice 2 at Barber

–by Mark Cipolloni–

Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou topped the 2nd NTT Data IndyCar Practice session at Barber Motorsports Park Saturday with a lap of 1m06.2781s to beat Team Penske Chevy driver Josef Newgarden by 0.235s

Newgarden’s Penske Chevy teammate Scott McLaughlin was a close third.

Scott Dixon and Colton Herta rounded out the top-5 in a session that saw a spin by Helio Castroves bring an end to Practice 2 several minutes early.

Practice 2 Results

Pos	No	Name	Time	Diff	Gap	Speed	Engine	Team
1	10	Alex Palou	1:06.2781	0.000s	0.000s	124.928	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
2	2	Josef Newgarden	1:06.5133	0.2352	0.2352	124.486	Chevy	Team Penske
3	3	Scott McLaughlin	1:06.5386	0.2605	0.0253	124.439	Chevy	Team Penske
4	9	Scott Dixon	1:06.6090	0.3309	0.0704	124.308	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
5	26	Colton Herta	1:06.6788	0.4007	0.0698	124.177	Honda	Andretti Autosport w/Curb-Agajanian
6	28	Romain Grosjean	1:06.7455	0.4674	0.0667	124.053	Honda	Andretti Autosport
7	45	Christian Lundgaard	1:06.7711	0.4930	0.0256	124.006	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
8	7	Alexander Rossi	1:06.7808	0.5027	0.0097	123.988	Chevy	Arrow McLaren
9	5	Pato O’Ward	1:06.8323	0.5542	0.0515	123.892	Chevy	Arrow McLaren
10	8	Marcus Ericsson	1:06.8654	0.5873	0.0331	123.831	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
11	29	Devlin DeFrancesco	1:06.8754	0.5973	0.0100	123.812	Honda	Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
12	27	Kyle Kirkwood	1:06.9333	0.6552	0.0579	123.705	Honda	Andretti Autosport
13	6	Felix Rosenqvist	1:06.9628	0.6847	0.0295	123.651	Chevy	Arrow McLaren
14	77	Callum Ilott	1:06.9705	0.6924	0.0077	123.637	Chevy	Juncos Hollinger Racing
15	11	Marcus Armstrong	1:06.9972	0.7191	0.0267	123.587	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
16	15	Graham Rahal	1:07.0372	0.7591	0.0400	123.514	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
17	12	Will Power	1:07.0377	0.7596	0.0005	123.513	Chevy	Team Penske
18	18	David Malukas	1:07.1437	0.8656	0.1060	123.318	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing with HMD
19	60	Simon Pagenaud	1:07.1458	0.8677	0.0021	123.314	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
20	21	Rinus VeeKay	1:07.1799	0.9018	0.0341	123.251	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
21	30	Jack Harvey	1:07.2494	0.9713	0.0695	123.124	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
22	06	Helio Castroneves	1:07.3324	1.0543	0.0830	122.972	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
23	20	Conor Daly	1:07.3750	1.0969	0.0426	122.894	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
24	51	Sting Ray Robb	1:07.5094	1.2313	0.1344	122.650	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR
25	14	Santino Ferrucci	1:07.5188	1.2407	0.0094	122.633	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
26	55	Benjamin Pedersen	1:07.8030	1.5249	0.2842	122.118	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
27	78	Agustin Canapino	1:07.8443	1.5662	0.0413	122.044	Chevy	Juncos Holling Racing