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Indy 500: Rahal stays top, Hildebrand hits wall
Graham Rahal’s top time from this morning held firm to remain fastest on Day 3 while JR Hildebrand became the first driver to hit the wall on a superspeedway with the new aerokit.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: May 17, 2018, 11:38 PM
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In the closing half hour of practice, Hildebrand was at the tail of a chain of eight cars when his Dreyer & Reinbold Racing-Chevrolet twitched hard out of Turn 3, and he didn’t have room to gather it up before slapping the SAFER barrier with both right-hand wheels and sliding along the wall.
Hildebrand was checked and released swiftly, given the lack of severity of impact.
There were few significant speed improvements in the second half of the day, although Will Power, who already had the top no-tow speed of the day, nudged the bar a little higher, setting a 223.971mph on his best qualifying simulation, before the 1.4-bar boost is introduced for Fast Friday (tomorrow) and the qualifying weekend.
Sebastien Bourdais was second on the no-tow charts for Dale Coyne Racing-Honda, with Charlie Kimball a highly impressive third for Carlin-Chevrolet. Remarkably, the day’s overall pacesetter, Rahal, was only 34th on the no-tow times.
Another driver disappointingly far down the speed charts was 2014 Indy 500 winner Ryan Hunter-Reay, 26th overall although eighth on the no-tow charts.
Indy 500 practice, Day 3
Cla# DriverLapsTimeGapIntervalMph 1 15 
Graham Rahal 102 39.8148 226.047 2 14 
Tony Kanaan 62 39.8414 0.0266 0.0266 225.896 3 98 Marco Andretti 86 39.8964 0.0816 0.0550 225.584 4 20 Ed Carpenter 97 39.9834 0.1686 0.0870 225.093 5 24 Sage Karam 72 40.0142 0.1994 0.0308 224.920 6 1 Josef Newgarden 75 40.0510 0.2362 0.0368 224.713 7 19 
Zachary Claman De Melo 60 40.0596 0.2448 0.0086 224.665 8 3 Helio Castroneves 110 40.0757 0.2609 0.0161 224.575 9 21 Spencer Pigot 86 40.1336 0.3188 0.0579 224.251 10 88 
Gabby Chaves 73 40.1463 0.3315 0.0127 224.180 11 22 
Simon Pagenaud 87 40.1502 0.3354 0.0039 224.158 12 9 
Scott Dixon 98 40.1834 0.3686 0.0332 223.973 13 12 
Will Power 90 40.1837 0.3689 0.0003 223.971 14 4 Matheus Leist 59 40.2242 0.4094 0.0405 223.746 15 18 Sébastien Bourdais 82 40.2340 0.4192 0.0098 223.691 16 64 
Oriol Servia 62 40.2431 0.4283 0.0091 223.641 17 7 
Jay Howard 73 40.2493 0.4345 0.0062 223.606 18 60 Jack Harvey 94 40.2584 0.4436 0.0091 223.556 19 10 
Ed Jones 79 40.2903 0.4755 0.0319 223.379 20 66 J.R. Hildebrand 57 40.2954 0.4806 0.0051 223.351 21 23 Charlie Kimball 32 40.3002 0.4854 0.0048 223.324 22 27 Alexander Rossi 84 40.3625 0.5477 0.0623 222.979 23 29 Carlos Munoz 78 40.3627 0.5479 0.0002 222.978 24 6 Robert Wickens 63 40.3793 0.5645 0.0166 222.886 25 32 Kyle Kaiser 91 40.4023 0.5875 0.0230 222.760 26 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay 92 40.4102 0.5954 0.0079 222.716 27 59 Max Chilton 45 40.4191 0.6043 0.0089 222.667 28 25 Stefan Wilson 96 40.4684 0.6536 0.0493 222.396 29 33 James Davison 81 40.4890 0.6742 0.0206 222.283 30 13 Danica Patrick 68 40.5011 0.6863 0.0121 222.216 31 5 James Hinchcliffe 83 40.5118 0.6970 0.0107 222.157 32 63 Pippa Mann 69 40.5198 0.7050 0.0080 222.114 33 30 
Takuma Sato 89 40.5815 0.7667 0.0617 221.776 34 17 Conor Daly 89 40.6168 0.8020 0.0353 221.583 35 26 Zach Veach 106 40.6608 0.8460 0.0440 221.343
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