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Indy 500: Daly quickest on Fast Friday, Jones tops no-tow speeds
Conor Daly led an Andretti Autosport-Honda 1-2 when he got a strong tow in his final run of the day and clocked a 231.704mph lap to edge teammate Marco Andretti who had led the day’s times for almost the whole day.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: May 18, 2019, 1:20 AM
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With the BorgWarner turbos turned up to 1.4-bar, as they will be for qualifying this weekend, the fastest laps of the week so far were turned today, Daly beating Andretti by 0.85mph. Daly was only 22nd on the no-tow speeds, however, while Andretti was seventh.
Fastest cars without the aid of a tow were two of the Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolets, those of Ed Jones (230.106mph) and Carpenter himself 229.879. They were 10th and sixth overall respectively, beaten by teammate Spencer Pigot who was fourth behind Takuma Sato’s Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda, but a strange anomaly meant that Pigot never got a strong tow-free lap and ended up 36th and last on the no-tow rankings!
Ryan Hunter-Reay was fifth overall but only 24th on the no-tows, while Simon Pagenaud, Josef Newgarden and Will Power were seventh, ninth and 11th overall for Team Penske-Chevrolet and ninth, fifth and fourth in the no-tows.
Charlie Kimball was 25th in the no-tows but eighth overall in his Carlin-Chevrolet, while Alexander Rossi was the fastest Honda in the no-tow ranks in third with a good 229mph quali-sim even in the heat of the mid-afternoon.
Due to having more available tire sets having missed 1.5 days, Fernando Alonso turned 77 laps, more than anyone but Ben Hanley, but the McLaren Racing-Chevrolet was 24th overall and only 31st on the no-tow rankings.
Aside from Kyle Kaiser’s shunt this morning, there appeared to be only one other near-miss when Graham Rahal understeered out of Turn 1 and brushed the wall on the short chute down to Turn 2.
Cla # Driver Team Laps Time Mph 1 25 
Conor Daly Andretti Autosport 57 38.8426 231.704 2 98 Marco Andretti Andretti Herta Autosport with Marco & Curb-Agajani 42 38.9862 230.851 3 30 
Takuma Sato Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 54 39.0024 230.755 4 21 Spencer Pigot Ed Carpenter Racing 25 39.0504 230.471 5 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti Autosport 43 39.0513 230.466 6 20 Ed Carpenter Ed Carpenter Racing 26 39.0696 230.358 7 22 
Simon Pagenaud Team Penske 15 39.0750 230.326 8 23 Charlie Kimball Carlin 36 39.0812 230.290 9 2 Josef Newgarden Team Penske 42 39.0827 230.281 10 63 
Ed Jones Ed Carpenter Racing 17 39.1124 230.106 11 12 
Will Power Team Penske 38 39.1200 230.061 12 14 
Tony Kanaan A.J. Foyt Enterprises 21 39.1285 230.011 13 24 Sage Karam Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 43 39.1420 229.932 14 27 Alexander Rossi Andretti Autosport 46 39.1512 229.878 15 18 Sébastien Bourdais Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan 50 39.1527 229.869 16 9 
Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing 54 39.1562 229.849 17 26 Zach Veach Andretti Autosport 48 39.1627 229.811 18 3 Helio Castroneves Team Penske 49 39.1838 229.687 19 19 Santino Ferrucci Dale Coyne Racing 30 39.2025 229.577 20 7 
Marcus Ericsson Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports 39 39.2137 229.512 21 60 
Jack Harvey Meyer Shank Racing with Arrow SPM 44 39.2215 229.466 22 15 Graham Rahal Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 41 39.2244 229.449 23 33 James Davison Dale Coyne Racing with Byrd and Belardi 34 39.2380 229.369 24 66 
Fernando Alonso McLaren Racing 77 39.2451 229.328 25 88 Colton Herta Harding Steinbrenner Racing 26 39.2852 229.094 26 48 J.R. Hildebrand Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 29 39.3458 228.741 27 4 Matheus Leist A.J. Foyt Enterprises 34 39.3590 228.664 28 77 Oriol Servia Team Stange Racing with Arrow Schmidt Peterson 47 39.3736 228.580 29 5 
James Hinchcliffe Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports 51 39.3770 228.560 30 10 Felix Rosenqvist Chip Ganassi Racing 64 39.3927 228.469 31 39 Pippa Mann Clauson-Marshall Racing 38 39.4272 228.269 32 42 Jordan King Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 56 39.4658 228.046 33 59 Max Chilton Carlin 51 39.5470 227.577 34 31 
Patricio O'Ward Carlin 38 39.5581 227.513 35 81 Ben Hanley DragonSpeed 81 39.7059 226.667 36 24 J.R. Hildebrand Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 5 39.7284 226.538 37 32 Kyle Kaiser Juncos Racing 1 1'09.3212 129.830
NO-TOW SPEEDS
RANK DRIVER TEAM ENGINE BEST NO-TOW LAP 1 Ed Jones Ed Carpenter Racing Chevy 230.106 2 Ed Carpenter Ed Carpenter Racing Chevy 229.879 3 Alexander Rossi Andretti Autosport Honda 229.878 4 Will Power Team Penske Chevy 229.75 5 Simon Pagenaud Team Penske Chevy 229.548 6 Graham Rahal Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda 229.449 7 Marco Andretti Andretti Herta Autosport with Curb-Agajanian Honda 229.382 8 Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing Teams Honda 229.282 9 Josef Newgarden Team Penske Chevy 229.23 10 Colton Herta Harding Steinbrenner Racing Honda 229.094 11 Zach Veach Andretti Autosport Honda 229.079 12 Sebastien Bourdais Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan Honda 228.976 13 Marcus Ericsson Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports Honda 228.754 14 JR Hildebrand Dreyer and Reinbold Racing Chevy 228.741 15 Helio Castroneves Team Penske Chevy 228.679 16 Takuma Sato Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda 228.529 17 Tony Kanaan AJ Foyt Enterprises Chevy 228.481 18 Santino Ferrucci Dale Coyne Racing Honda 228.409 19 James Hinchcliffe Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports Honda 228.405 20 James Davison Dale Coyne with Byrd and Belardi Honda 228.395 21 Pippa Mann Clauson-Marshall Racing Chevy 228.269 22 Conor Daly Andretti Autosport Honda 228.239 23 Jack Harvey Meyer Shank Racing with Arrow SPM Honda 228.103 24 Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti Autosport Honda 228.089 25 Charlie Kimball Carlin Chevy 228.014 26 Felix Rosenqvist Chip Ganassi Racing Teams Honda 227.972 27 Jordan King Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda 227.409 28 Matheus Leist AJ Foyt Enterprises Chevy 227.232 29 Oriol Servia Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports Honda 227.173 30 Fernando Alonso McLaren Racing Chevy 226.869 31 Max Chilton Carlin Chevy 226.636 32 Sage Karam Dreyer and Reinbold Racing Chevy 225.533 33 Ben Hanley DragonSpeed Chevy 225.492 34 Patricio O'Ward Carlin Chevy 221.898 35 Spencer Pigot Ed Carpenter Racing Chevy 221.733 36 Kyle Kaiser Juncos Racing Chevy 204.597
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