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Indy 500: Dixon fastest at 229.107mph as weather halts practice
Scott Dixon led the brief morning portion of an altered practice for the 108th Running of the Indianapolis 500 before rain showers brought the session to a halt.
Joey Barnes
Edited: May 15, 2024, 7:47 PM
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The six-time IndyCar Series champion and 2008 winner of the Indy 500, Dixon scorched around the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway with a flying lap of 229.107mph in the No. 9 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda.
Despite being an Indy-only entry, Marco Andretti got comfortable right out of the gate and delivered the second-fastest lap in the No. 98 Andretti Herta Honda that was only 0.1218s off the mark set by Dixon.
Takuma Sato, who is also only contesting the Indy 500, an event he has won twice before, was third at a distant 0.6194s in the No. 75 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (RLL) Honda.
Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward, the top Chevrolet runner, was fourth at 0.7183s behind, following by RLL’s Christian Lundgaard in fifth at 0.9237s back.
The ominous clouds held off the rain long enough for roughly 23 minutes of on-track activity before unleashing enough moisture to put an early end to the session.
With that, the morning session that was originally schedule for two hours (from 9am-11am ET) saw Race Control cancel the break and extended practice to the end of the day (6pm ET), weather permitting.
Only three no-tow speeds were recorded, with Team Penske’s Scott McLaughlin nailing the best pace at 219.656 mph. He was following by the No. 60 Meyer Shank Racing Honda of Felix Rosenqvist, who ran a best of 219.230mph. RLL’s Pietro Fittipaldi was third at 216.137mph.
Josef Newgarden, the reigning Indy 500 champion, saw a rough start to his defense after a technical issue was found with a bad sensor on his installation lap and was not able to get any running.
“We got an issue, we're diagnosing,” he added. “We just got a sensor that's off right now.”
Kyle Larson, the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion, began his Month of May quest at the Brickyard by being 27th on the leaderboard, running only two installation laps as he got used to the systems of coming on and off pit lane in his No. 17 Arrow McLaren/Rick Hendrick Chevrolet.
“It's definitely good,” Larson said. “Even at this point, I've gotten more today than I thought I would, so just getting to leave the pit lane a couple times, it was good; all that. As we get to tomorrow, we get like a clean day of running, I'll be able to learn probably a lot. I would think so.
“Wish I would've got more laps there, but overall, I'm still just happy to be here and I think they (IndyCar) said we have like 30-some more hours of practice, so hopefully that's enough time for me.”
Of note, Juncos Hollinger Racing’s Romain Grosjean was the first driver on track and ended up 14th 221.098mph flying lap.
Since 1984, the driver to go out on track first has never won the Indy 500 and only finished second once (Marco Andretti, 2006) and only qualified on pole twice (Helio Castroneves, 2010; Ryan Briscoe, 2012).
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Cla Driver # Laps Time Interval Mph 1 S. Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing 9 9
39.2829
229.107 2 M. Andretti Andretti Herta Autosport with Marco & Curb-Agajani 98 12
+0.1218
39.4047
0.1218 228.399 3 T. Sato Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 75 6
+0.6194
39.9023
0.4976 225.551 4 P. O'Ward Arrow McLaren 5 11
+0.7183
40.0012
0.0989 224.993 5 C. Lundgaard Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 45 7
+0.9237
40.2066
0.2054 223.844 6 H. Castroneves Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian 06 10
+0.9552
40.2381
0.0315 223.669 7 C. Herta Andretti Global with Curb-Agajanian 26 7
+1.0607
40.3436
0.1055 223.084 8 F. Rosenqvist Meyer Shank Racing 60 13
+1.2263
40.5092
0.1656 222.172 9 K. Kirkwood Andretti Global 27 13
+1.2694
40.5523
0.0431 221.936 10
R. Robb A.J. Foyt Enterprises
41 5
+1.2829
40.5658
0.0135 221.862 11 C. Ilott Arrow McLaren 6 10
+1.2957
40.5786
0.0128 221.792 12 M. Ericsson Andretti Global 28 12
+1.2983
40.5812
0.0026 221.778 13 R. Hunter-Reay Dreyer & Reinbold Racing/Cusick Motorsports 23 9
+1.3125
40.5954
0.0142 221.700 14 R. Grosjean Juncos Hollinger Racing 77 8
+1.4230
40.7059
0.1105 221.098 15 C. Daly Dreyer & Reinbold Racing/Cusick Motorsports 24 8
+1.4626
40.7455
0.0396 220.883 16 E. Carpenter Ed Carpenter Racing 20 7
+1.4635
40.7464
0.0009 220.878 17 T. Blomqvist Meyer Shank Racing 66 12
+1.4675
40.7504
0.0040 220.857 18 S. McLaughlin Team Penske 3 13
+1.5701
40.8530
0.1026 220.302 19 A. Rossi Arrow McLaren 7 5
+1.6032
40.8861
0.0331 220.124 20 A. Canapino Juncos Hollinger Racing 78 7
+1.8483
41.1312
0.2451 218.812 21
C. Rasmussen Ed Carpenter Racing
33 4
+1.9480
41.2309
0.0997 218.283 22
N. Siegel Dale Coyne Racing
18 11
+2.0084
41.2913
0.0604 217.964 23 S. Ferrucci A.J. Foyt Enterprises 14 3
+2.0629
41.3458
0.0545 217.676 24 G. Rahal Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 15 6
+2.2346
41.5175
0.1717 216.776 25 P. Fittipaldi Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 30 4
+2.3573
41.6402
0.1227 216.137 26 R. van Kalmthout Ed Carpenter Racing 21 3
+2.7614
42.0443
0.4041 214.060 27 K. Larson Arrow McLaren/Rick Hendrick 17 2
+20.7694
1'00.0523
18.0080 149.869 28 J. Newgarden Team Penske 2 1
+35.8788
1'15.1617
15.1094 119.742 29 W. Power Team Penske 12 1
+36.2433
1'15.5262
0.3645 119.164 View full results
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