IndyCar: Dixon tops Practice 2 in Detroit
Veteran Scott Dixon put his Ganassi on top in the 2nd practice session for the Chevrolet Detroit GP IndyCar race with a time of 1m03.2317s (93.6mpg) in his Ganassi Honda.
Honda-powered cars swept the top-3 with Kyle Kirkwood 2nd, 0.3341s behind in his Andretti Honda and Alex Palou, Dixon’s teammate, 3rd 0.4848s back.
Whereas Practice 1 featured 8 red flags, Practice 2 saw 5 red flags as teams adjusted their cars to be more compliant over the washboard street of Detroit.
The fifth red was for DeFrancesco who pounded the Turn 7 wall head-on, smashing the nose and right-side of his Andretti Autosport car against the concrete wall. The impact was hard enough to shift one of the concrete blocks.
Indy 500 winner Scott McLaughlin was 4th and Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward rounded out the top-5.
Practice 2 Results
| Pos | No | Name | Time | Diff | Gap | FL | Laps | Speed | Engine | Team |
| 1 | 9 | Scott Dixon | 1:03.2317 | 0.000s | 0.000s | 15 | 23 | 93.656 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing |
| 2 | 27 | Kyle Kirkwood | 1:03.5658 | 0.3341 | 0.3341 | 7 | 28 | 93.163 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
| 3 | 10 | Alex Palou | 1:03.7165 | 0.4848 | 0.1507 | 9 | 23 | 92.943 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing |
| 4 | 3 | Scott McLaughlin | 1:03.7166 | 0.4849 | 0.0001 | 26 | 32 | 92.943 | Chevy | Team Penske |
| 5 | 5 | Pato O’Ward | 1:03.7732 | 0.5415 | 0.0566 | 7 | 23 | 92.860 | Chevy | Arrow McLaren |
| 6 | 11 | Marcus Armstrong | 1:03.8105 | 0.5788 | 0.0373 | 11 | 30 | 92.806 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing |
| 7 | 12 | Will Power | 1:03.9664 | 0.7347 | 0.1559 | 19 | 26 | 92.580 | Chevy | Team Penske |
| 8 | 77 | Callum Ilott | 1:04.0307 | 0.7990 | 0.0643 | 16 | 24 | 92.487 | Chevy | Juncos Hollinger Racing |
| 9 | 60 | Simon Pagenaud | 1:04.0399 | 0.8082 | 0.0092 | 16 | 26 | 92.474 | Honda | Meyer Shank Racing |
| 10 | 18 | David Malukas | 1:04.1853 | 0.9536 | 0.1454 | 8 | 22 | 92.264 | Honda | Dale Coyne Racing with HMD |
| 11 | 21 | Rinus VeeKay | 1:04.2775 | 1.0458 | 0.0922 | 8 | 26 | 92.132 | Chevy | Ed Carpenter Racing |
| 12 | 7 | Alexander Rossi | 1:04.4716 | 1.2399 | 0.1941 | 17 | 25 | 91.854 | Chevy | Arrow McLaren |
| 13 | 28 | Romain Grosjean | 1:04.5122 | 1.2805 | 0.0406 | 4 | 23 | 91.797 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
| 14 | 29 | Devlin DeFrancesco | 1:04.7144 | 1.4827 | 0.2022 | 16 | 19 | 91.510 | Honda | Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport |
| 15 | 15 | Graham Rahal | 1:04.7706 | 1.5389 | 0.0562 | 18 | 26 | 91.430 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
| 16 | 06 | Helio Castroneves | 1:04.8019 | 1.5702 | 0.0313 | 9 | 27 | 91.386 | Honda | Meyer Shank Racing |
| 17 | 8 | Marcus Ericsson | 1:04.8610 | 1.6293 | 0.0591 | 15 | 21 | 91.303 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing |
| 18 | 55 | Benjamin Pedersen | 1:04.9296 | 1.6979 | 0.0686 | 18 | 25 | 91.206 | Chevy | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
| 19 | 2 | Josef Newgarden | 1:04.9341 | 1.7024 | 0.0045 | 15 | 22 | 91.200 | Chevy | Team Penske |
| 20 | 45 | Christian Lundgaard | 1:04.9526 | 1.7209 | 0.0185 | 18 | 27 | 91.174 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
| 21 | 6 | Felix Rosenqvist | 1:04.9592 | 1.7275 | 0.0066 | 8 | 26 | 91.165 | Chevy | Arrow McLaren |
| 22 | 78 | Agustin Canapino | 1:05.0092 | 1.7775 | 0.0500 | 16 | 25 | 91.095 | Chevy | Juncos Holling Racing |
| 23 | 14 | Santino Ferrucci | 1:05.1150 | 1.8833 | 0.1058 | 17 | 25 | 90.947 | Chevy | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
| 24 | 30 | Jack Harvey | 1:05.1786 | 1.9469 | 0.0636 | 8 | 28 | 90.858 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
| 25 | 51 | Sting Ray Robb | 1:05.8483 | 2.6166 | 0.6697 | 7 | 23 | 89.934 | Honda | Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR |
| 26 | 20 | Conor Daly | 1:06.9019 | 3.6702 | 1.0536 | 9 | 25 | 88.518 | Chevy | Ed Carpenter Racing |
| 27 | 26 | Colton Herta | 1:08.0220 | 4.7903 | 1.1201 | 6 | 19 | 87.060 | Honda | Andretti Autosport w/Curb-Agajanian |