IndyCar: Palou tops Practice 2 for GMR GP

Hoping to move to Formula 1 in 2024, Alex Palou put his Chip Ganassi Racing Honda on top in practice 2 for the GMR Grand Prix Friday afternoon on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway F1 track.

Palou’s lap of 1m09.9383s was a comfortable 0.3197s faster than the RLL Honda of Christian Lundgaard who was 2nd quick in practice 1 earlier.

Fast man in the Practice 1, Pato O’Ward from Mexico, was 3rd quick in his Arrow McLaren Chevy.

F1 wanna be turned IndyCar driver, Marcus Armstrong was 4th in the #11 Ganassi Honda, while Jack Harvey rounded out the top-5 in his #30 RLL Honda.

Marcus Armstrong. Photo courtesy of Penske Entertainment

Practice 2 Results

Pos	No	Name	Time	Behind	Gap	FL	Laps	Speed	Engine	Team
1	10	Alex Palou	1:09.9383	0.000s	0.000s	19	21	125.545	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
2	45	Christian Lundgaard	1:10.2580	0.3197	0.3197	15	17	124.974	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
3	5	Pato O’Ward	1:10.2604	0.3221	0.0024	18	22	124.969	Chevy	Arrow McLaren
4	11	Marcus Armstrong	1:10.3022	0.3639	0.0418	17	20	124.895	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
5	30	Jack Harvey	1:10.3038	0.3655	0.0016	14	15	124.892	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
6	2	Josef Newgarden	1:10.3174	0.3791	0.0136	18	18	124.868	Chevy	Team Penske
7	3	Scott McLaughlin	1:10.3395	0.4012	0.0221	23	23	124.829	Chevy	Team Penske
8	12	Will Power	1:10.3999	0.4616	0.0604	15	17	124.722	Chevy	Team Penske
9	9	Scott Dixon	1:10.4018	0.4635	0.0019	18	21	124.718	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
10	8	Marcus Ericsson	1:10.4026	0.4643	0.0008	17	20	124.717	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
11	7	Alexander Rossi	1:10.4075	0.4692	0.0049	17	20	124.708	Chevy	Arrow McLaren
12	6	Felix Rosenqvist	1:10.4167	0.4784	0.0092	4	15	124.692	Chevy	Arrow McLaren
13	27	Kyle Kirkwood	1:10.4753	0.5370	0.0586	12	14	124.588	Honda	Andretti Autosport
14	15	Graham Rahal	1:10.5187	0.5804	0.0434	17	19	124.512	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
15	26	Colton Herta	1:10.6510	0.7127	0.1323	16	18	124.278	Honda	Andretti Autosport w/Curb-Agajanian
16	60	Simon Pagenaud	1:10.6982	0.7599	0.0472	12	17	124.196	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
17	77	Callum Ilott	1:10.7046	0.7663	0.0064	16	19	124.184	Chevy	Juncos Hollinger Racing
18	21	Rinus VeeKay	1:10.7077	0.7694	0.0031	10	20	124.179	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
19	28	Romain Grosjean	1:10.7678	0.8295	0.0601	17	18	124.073	Honda	Andretti Autosport
20	20	Conor Daly	1:10.8026	0.8643	0.0348	16	16	124.012	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
21	18	David Malukas	1:10.8835	0.9452	0.0809	10	20	123.871	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing with HMD
22	29	Devlin DeFrancesco	1:10.9534	1.0151	0.0699	17	17	123.749	Honda	Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
23	51	Sting Ray Robb	1:11.0065	1.0682	0.0531	10	19	123.656	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR
24	78	Agustin Canapino	1:11.0330	1.0947	0.0265	17	19	123.610	Chevy	Juncos Holling Racing
25	14	Santino Ferrucci	1:11.1361	1.1978	0.1031	16	16	123.431	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
26	55	Benjamin Pedersen	1:11.2574	1.3191	0.1213	18	20	123.221	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
27	06	Helio Castroneves	1:11.7210	1.7827	0.4636	4	7	122.424	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing