IndyCar: Power tops Palou in Mid-Ohio Practice 2
–by Mark Cipolloni–
Team Penske’s Will Power turned the fastest lap in his Verizon Chevy to lead the 2nd practice session for the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio.
Power’s lap of 1m06.4905s beat the Chip Ganassi Racing Honda of Alex Palou by 0.2506s
Colton Herta was third in the #26 Andretti Gainbridge Honda 0.29s back.
Scary Accident for Simon Pagenaud
Scary incident in practice 2 for @simonpagenaud.
Pagenaud has been seen and released. #INDYCAR // #Honda200 pic.twitter.com/0tmi9IOgGs
— NTT INDYCAR SERIES (@IndyCar) July 1, 2023
Practice 2 Results
| Pos | No | Name | Time | Behind | Gap | FL | Laps | Speed | Engine | Team |
| 1 | 12 | Will Power | 1:06.4905 | 0.000s | 0.000s | 15 | 22 | 122.255 | Chevy | Team Penske |
| 2 | 10 | Alex Palou | 1:06.7411 | 0.2506 | 0.2506 | 13 | 21 | 121.796 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing |
| 3 | 26 | Colton Herta | 1:06.7791 | 0.2886 | 0.0380 | 14 | 24 | 121.727 | Honda | Andretti Autosport w/Curb-Agajanian |
| 4 | 5 | Pato O’Ward | 1:06.7947 | 0.3042 | 0.0156 | 8 | 18 | 121.698 | Chevy | Arrow McLaren |
| 5 | 9 | Scott Dixon | 1:06.8289 | 0.3384 | 0.0342 | 13 | 24 | 121.636 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing |
| 6 | 3 | Scott McLaughlin | 1:06.8700 | 0.3795 | 0.0411 | 22 | 23 | 121.561 | Chevy | Team Penske |
| 7 | 15 | Graham Rahal | 1:06.8884 | 0.3979 | 0.0184 | 5 | 19 | 121.528 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
| 8 | 18 | David Malukas | 1:06.8896 | 0.3991 | 0.0012 | 10 | 25 | 121.526 | Honda | Dale Coyne Racing with HMD |
| 9 | 27 | Kyle Kirkwood | 1:06.8966 | 0.4061 | 0.0070 | 15 | 23 | 121.513 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
| 10 | 6 | Felix Rosenqvist | 1:06.9686 | 0.4781 | 0.0720 | 10 | 22 | 121.382 | Chevy | Arrow McLaren |
| 11 | 45 | Christian Lundgaard | 1:07.0138 | 0.5233 | 0.0452 | 15 | 21 | 121.300 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
| 12 | 7 | Alexander Rossi | 1:07.0799 | 0.5894 | 0.0661 | 7 | 21 | 121.181 | Chevy | Arrow McLaren |
| 13 | 28 | Romain Grosjean | 1:07.1032 | 0.6127 | 0.0233 | 10 | 24 | 121.139 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
| 14 | 30 | Jack Harvey | 1:07.1220 | 0.6315 | 0.0188 | 20 | 20 | 121.105 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
| 15 | 11 | Marcus Armstrong | 1:07.1287 | 0.6382 | 0.0067 | 14 | 24 | 121.093 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing |
| 16 | 06 | Helio Castroneves | 1:07.1515 | 0.6610 | 0.0228 | 5 | 17 | 121.052 | Honda | Meyer Shank Racing |
| 17 | 21 | Rinus VeeKay | 1:07.2146 | 0.7241 | 0.0631 | 13 | 20 | 120.938 | Chevy | Ed Carpenter Racing |
| 18 | 2 | Josef Newgarden | 1:07.2580 | 0.7675 | 0.0434 | 14 | 22 | 120.860 | Chevy | Team Penske |
| 19 | 29 | Devlin DeFrancesco | 1:07.2584 | 0.7679 | 0.0004 | 10 | 24 | 120.859 | Honda | Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport |
| 20 | 20 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | 1:07.3918 | 0.9013 | 0.1334 | 8 | 19 | 120.620 | Chevy | Ed Carpenter Racing |
| 21 | 14 | Santino Ferrucci | 1:07.4848 | 0.9943 | 0.0930 | 5 | 16 | 120.454 | Chevy | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
| 22 | 8 | Marcus Ericsson | 1:07.6197 | 1.1292 | 0.1349 | 21 | 21 | 120.213 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing |
| 23 | 77 | Callum Ilott | 1:07.7287 | 1.2382 | 0.1090 | 10 | 25 | 120.020 | Chevy | Juncos Hollinger Racing |
| 24 | 78 | Agustin Canapino | 1:07.8411 | 1.3506 | 0.1124 | 11 | 25 | 119.821 | Chevy | Juncos Holling Racing |
| 25 | 51 | Sting Ray Robb | 1:08.0188 | 1.5283 | 0.1777 | 20 | 22 | 119.508 | Honda | Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR |
| 26 | 55 | Benjamin Pedersen | 1:08.8344 | 2.3439 | 0.8156 | 9 | 24 | 118.092 | Chevy | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
| 27 | 60 | Simon Pagenaud | 1:10.6735 | 4.1830 | 1.8391 | 3 | 3 | 115.019 | Honda | Meyer Shank Racing |