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Barber IndyCar: Rahal leads Rossi in warm-up
Graham Rahal, who will start his Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda on the front row beside teammate Takuma Sato for this afternoon’s Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama, set fastest lap in raceday warm-up at Barber Motorsports Park.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Apr 7, 2019, 4:59 PM
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The half-hour session allows drivers to try used alternate [softer] compound tires as well as primaries, but Rahal topped the times with a 70.175sec lap of the 2.3-mile course, an average speed of 117.991mph.
That was 0.1102sec faster than Alexander Rossi’s Andrettti Autosport-Honda, who was separated from his fourth fastest teammate Ryan Hunter-Reay by championship leader Josef Newgarden in the Team Penske-Chevrolet.
Zach Veach, who will be starting at the back, shook off his Barber blues – despite an off at Turn 15 that brought out the red flag – with fifth fastest time, as all the Andretti cars tried reds and discovered they hung on well over longer runs.
Jack Harvey claimed seventh with his 20th and final lap in the Meyer Shank Racing SPM-Honda, with polesistter Sato in eighth, Matheus Leist giving a boost to AJ Foyt Racing with ninth and Simon Pagenaud completing the Top 10.
The race gets the green flag at 3.15pm local (Central) time.
Cla # Driver Team Laps Time Gap Interval Mph 1 15 
Graham Rahal Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 20 1'10.1751 117.991 2 27 Alexander Rossi Andretti Autosport 20 1'10.2853 0.1102 0.1102 117.806 3 2 Josef Newgarden Team Penske 20 1'10.5107 0.3356 0.2254 117.429 4 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti Autosport 15 1'10.5596 0.3845 0.0489 117.348 5 26 Zach Veach Andretti Autosport 15 1'10.7195 0.5444 0.1599 117.082 6 88 Colton Herta Harding Racing 16 1'10.7525 0.5774 0.0330 117.028 7 60 
Jack Harvey Meyer Shank Racing 20 1'10.7604 0.5853 0.0079 117.015 8 30 
Takuma Sato Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 20 1'10.9002 0.7251 0.1398 116.784 9 4 
Matheus Leist A.J. Foyt Enterprises 16 1'10.9195 0.7444 0.0193 116.752 10 22 
Simon Pagenaud Team Penske 17 1'10.9258 0.7507 0.0063 116.742 11 98 Marco Andretti Andretti Autosport 15 1'10.9733 0.7982 0.0475 116.664 12 10 
Felix Rosenqvist Chip Ganassi Racing 20 1'10.9770 0.8019 0.0037 116.658 13 9 
Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing 17 1'11.0764 0.9013 0.0994 116.494 14 5 
James Hinchcliffe Schmidt Peterson Motorsports 20 1'11.3067 1.1316 0.2303 116.118 15 12 
Will Power Team Penske 18 1'11.3643 1.1892 0.0576 116.024 16 7 Marcus Ericsson Schmidt Peterson Motorsports 19 1'11.3672 1.1921 0.0029 116.020 17 31 
Patricio O'Ward Carlin 21 1'11.4576 1.2825 0.0904 115.873 18 18 Sébastien Bourdais Dale Coyne Racing 20 1'11.4592 1.2841 0.0016 115.870 19 21 Spencer Pigot Ed Carpenter Racing 19 1'11.4627 1.2876 0.0035 115.865 20 59 Max Chilton Carlin 20 1'11.6123 1.4372 0.1496 115.623 21 81 Ben Hanley DragonSpeed 16 1'11.6725 1.4974 0.0602 115.525 22 14 Tony Kanaan A.J. Foyt Enterprises 12 1'11.7497 1.5746 0.0772 115.401 23 20 
Ed Jones Ed Carpenter Racing 18 1'11.8127 1.6376 0.0630 115.300 24 19 Santino Ferrucci Dale Coyne Racing 18 1'12.2603 2.0852 0.4476 114.586
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