Dixon top as Mid-Ohio’s unofficial lap record falls again

The #9 Chip Ganassi Racing-Chevrolet flew around the track in 63.7244sec, an average speed of 127.562mph of the 2.258-mile course. Yesterday's 64.19sec lap by Will Power had been the previous best.

Dixon's fastest was 0.17sec clear of championship leader Simon Pagenaud, who edged Team Penske-Chevy teammate Will Power and Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevy’s Josef Newgarden by hundredths.

Dixon’s teammate Tony Kanaan was the other driver into the 63s, although almost quarter-second slower than Ganassi teammate Dixon. Their teammates Max Chilton and Charlie Kimball also impressed with sixth and eighth fastest itmes respectively. These two were split by the fastest Honda, the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing machine of Graham Rahal who was 0.35sec off Dixon’s best.

RC Enerson continued to impress; although 15^th quickest, he was a quarter-second faster than Conor Daly who went off the road twice, the second time ending the session with a red flag.

AJ Foyt Racing struggled, around 1sec off P1 in 20^th and 21st with Takuma Sato even running off the track at the final turn trying to improve. But their times were still quick enough to edge Marco Andretti who was only 0.6sec off teammate Hunter-Reay but 12 places apart.

Mid-Ohio - Free practice 3
P.	N°	Driver	Team (Engine)	Time/deficit
1	9	Scott Dixon	Ganassi (C)	1:03.7244
2	22	Simon Pagenaud	Penske (C)	0.1694
3	12	Will Power	Penske (C)	0.1806
4	21	Josef Newgarden	Carpenter (C)	0.1872
5	10	Tony Kanaan	Ganassi (C)	0.2316
6	8	Max Chilton	Ganassi (C)	0.3150
7	15	Graham Rahal	Rahal (H)	0.3520
8	83	Charlie Kimball	Ganassi (C)	0.3645
9	5	James Hinchcliffe	Schmidt (H)	0.3710
10	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti (H)	0.4177
11	11	Sébastien Bourdais	KVSH (C)	0.4450
12	2	Juan Pablo Montoya	Penske (C)	0.5490
13	7	Mikhail Aleshin	Schmidt (H)	0.6126
14	3	Helio Castroneves	Penske (C)	0.6301
15	19	R.C. Enerson	Coyne (H)	0.6643
16	20	Spencer Pigot	Carpenter (C)	0.7103
17	98	Alexander Rossi	Andretti-Herta (H)	0.8871
18	26	Carlos Muñoz	Andretti (H)	0.9022
19	18	Conor Daly	Coyne (H)	0.9065
20	41	Jack Hawksworth	Foyt (H)	0.9458
21	14	Takuma Sato	Foyt (H)	1.0129
22	27	Marco Andretti	Andretti (H)	1.0424