Gateway IndyCar: Rossi leads final practice, Fittipaldi stars

Rossi’s Andretti Autosport-Honda lapped the 1.25-mile Gateway Motorsports Park oval in 24.582sec, an average of 183.050mph, on his 110^th of 115 laps in the 90min session.

That was a mere 0.0051sec faster than Dixon’s Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda, while Fittipaldi was 0.1sec behind in only his third race back since breaking his legs in a WEC race at Spa. However

Ed Jones made it two Ganassi cars in the top four, with Zach Veach and Ryan Hunter-Reay making three Andretti cars in the top six.

AJ Foyt Racing’s Tony Kanaan was seventh and fastest of the Chevrolet entries, while Graham Rahal’s Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing car was eighth, having completed the most laps of anyone – 138. The second Coyne car of Sebastien Bourdais was ninth and the fastest of the Team Penske-Chevrolets was Will Power in 10^th.

Power’s teammate Josef Newgarden, defending race winner here at Gateway, had the only incident of the night, scraping the wall with both right-side wheels exiting Turn 4. He briefly returned to the track, before calling it quits.

Cla	#	Driver	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	Mph
1	27	Alexander Rossi	115	24.5821			183.060
2	9	Scott Dixon	120	24.5872	0.0051	0.0051	183.022
3	19	Pietro Fittipaldi	119	24.6854	0.1033	0.0982	182.294
4	10	Ed Jones	104	24.6889	0.1068	0.0035	182.268
5	26	Zach Veach	142	24.6913	0.1092	0.0024	182.250
6	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	105	24.6988	0.1167	0.0075	182.195
7	14	Tony Kanaan	69	24.7562	0.1741	0.0574	181.773
8	15	Graham Rahal	149	24.8649	0.2828	0.1087	180.978
9	18	Sébastien Bourdais	124	24.8723	0.2902	0.0074	180.924
10	12	Will Power	115	24.8835	0.3014	0.0112	180.843
11	98	Marco Andretti	98	24.8910	0.3089	0.0075	180.788
12	1	Josef Newgarden	61	24.9192	0.3371	0.0282	180.584
13	30	Takuma Sato	122	24.9339	0.3518	0.0147	180.477
14	22	Simon Pagenaud	87	24.9363	0.3542	0.0024	180.460
15	5	James Hinchcliffe	87	25.0879	0.5058	0.1516	179.369
16	88	Gabby Chaves	114	25.1060	0.5239	0.0181	179.240
17	21	Spencer Pigot	88	25.1134	0.5313	0.0074	179.187
18	20	Ed Carpenter	81	25.1325	0.5504	0.0191	179.051
19	59	Max Chilton	91	25.2007	0.6186	0.0682	178.566
20	4	Matheus Leist	89	25.2967	0.7146	0.0960	177.889
21	23	Charlie Kimball	100	25.3342	0.7521	0.0375	177.626