IndyCar: Rahal tops opening practice for Gallagher GP

Graham Rahal turned a lap of 1m09.8421s to lead opening practice for the Gallagher GP IndyCar race on the IMS road course.

Rahal’s time in his #15 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Honda was 0.0846s faster than Felix Rosenqvist’s #6 Arrow McLaren Chevy.

Rahal’s teammate Christian Lundgaard was third quick, 0.2825s behind.

Last year’s race winner Alexander Rossi was 4th, 0.2912s in the #7 Arrow McLaren Chevy.

IndyCar points leader Alex Palou rounded out the top-5 in his #10 Ganassi Honda.

Gallagher GP Practice 1 Results

Pos	No	Name	Time	Diff	Gap	FL	Laps	Speed	Engine	Team
1	15	Graham Rahal	1:09.8421	0.000s	0.000s	19	23	125.718	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
2	6	Felix Rosenqvist	1:09.9267	0.0846	0.0846	14	23	125.566	Chevy	Arrow McLaren
3	45	Christian Lundgaard	1:10.1246	0.2825	0.1979	22	28	125.211	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
4	7	Alexander Rossi	1:10.1333	0.2912	0.0087	19	21	125.196	Chevy	Arrow McLaren
5	10	Alex Palou	1:10.1965	0.3544	0.0632	21	21	125.083	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
6	3	Scott McLaughlin	1:10.2482	0.4061	0.0517	21	25	124.991	Chevy	Team Penske
7	9	Scott Dixon	1:10.2698	0.4277	0.0216	20	22	124.953	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
8	5	Pato O’Ward	1:10.3220	0.4799	0.0522	13	14	124.860	Chevy	Arrow McLaren
9	8	Marcus Ericsson	1:10.3254	0.4833	0.0034	13	16	124.854	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
10	29	Devlin DeFrancesco	1:10.3464	0.5043	0.0210	20	22	124.817	Honda	Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
11	11	Marcus Armstrong	1:10.3486	0.5065	0.0022	26	26	124.813	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
12	30	Jack Harvey	1:10.3544	0.5123	0.0058	21	29	124.802	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
13	60	Linus Lundqvist	1:10.3874	0.5453	0.0330	28	32	124.744	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
14	27	Kyle Kirkwood	1:10.4025	0.5604	0.0151	17	20	124.717	Honda	Andretti Autosport
15	06	Helio Castroneves	1:10.4060	0.5639	0.0035	21	23	124.711	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
16	18	David Malukas	1:10.4509	0.6088	0.0449	18	24	124.631	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing with HMD
17	28	Romain Grosjean	1:10.4781	0.6360	0.0272	18	21	124.583	Honda	Andretti Autosport
18	14	Santino Ferrucci	1:10.4845	0.6424	0.0064	22	26	124.572	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
19	77	Callum Ilott	1:10.4860	0.6439	0.0015	16	17	124.569	Chevy	Juncos Hollinger Racing
20	12	Will Power	1:10.5513	0.7092	0.0653	22	26	124.454	Chevy	Team Penske
21	21	Rinus VeeKay	1:10.5900	0.7479	0.0387	21	24	124.386	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
22	26	Colton Herta	1:10.6389	0.7968	0.0489	5	22	124.300	Honda	Andretti Autosport w/Curb Agajanian
23	20	Ryan Hunter Reay	1:10.6428	0.8007	0.0039	21	23	124.293	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
24	2	Josef Newgarden	1:10.8258	0.9837	0.1830	22	23	123.972	Chevy	Team Penske
25	78	Agustin Canapino	1:10.9704	1.1283	0.1446	25	26	123.719	Chevy	Juncos Hollinger Racing
26	51	Sting Ray Robb	1:11.2311	1.3890	0.2607	25	31	123.266	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR
27	55	Benjamin Pedersen	1:11.3813	1.5392	0.1502	32	32	123.007	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises