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IndyCar GP: Herta leads Dixon in warm-up
Colton Herta emphasized the strength of his challenge in today’s IndyCar Grand Prix when he took top spot in the race day warm-up by almost four-tenths of a second.
David Malsher-Lopez
Published: May 11, 2019, 4:04 PM
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Herta, who was the fastest on primary tires yesterday in qualifying, will line up fourth on the grid on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.439-mile road course, and this morning the Harding Steinbrenner Racing-Honda driver set a 69.200sec lap to top the field by 0.3802sec.
Second-place starter Scott Dixon of Chip Ganassi Racing was 0.38sec shy of that time, just ahead of the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Hondas of Takuma Sato and Graham Rahal who will start 11th and seventh respectively.
Sebastien Bourdais was fifth in the Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan-Honda entry, a quarter second ahead of the fastest of the Andretti Autosport-Hondas, that of Marco Andretti.
Max Chilton was the fastest Chevrolet drivers in the Carlin entry, but disappointed teammate Patricio O’Ward failed to turn a lap after more alternator trouble, as per yesterday.
Josef Newgarden was fastest of the Team Penske-Chevys in eighth, ahead of polesitter Felix Rosenqvist in the second Ganassi entry. A trio of Andretti cars then headed defending race-winner Will Power of Team Penske.
Several drivers took to the grass or escape roads, but none suffered damage.
The sixth IndyCar Grand Prix on the IMS road course begins at 3.45pm ET, with TV coverage – this week on NBC, not NBCSN – commencing at 3.00pm. Current weather forecasts suggests rain will hit the area around 3.30pm, and if this is true, it will be only the second wet race with the 2018-spec aerokit, and the first with Firestone’s current compound of wet tire (introduced at Detroit last June).
Cla Driver Team Laps Time Gap Interval Mph 1 
Colton Herta Harding Racing 15 1'09.2003 126.884 2 
Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing 19 1'09.5805 0.3802 0.3802 126.191 3 
Takuma Sato Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 19 1'09.6791 0.4788 0.0986 126.012 4 Graham Rahal Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 17 1'09.6828 0.4825 0.0037 126.005 5 
Sébastien Bourdais Dale Coyne Racing 23 1'09.7436 0.5433 0.0608 125.895 6 Marco Andretti Andretti Autosport 15 1'10.0124 0.8121 0.2688 125.412 7 
Max Chilton Carlin 20 1'10.0447 0.8444 0.0323 125.354 8 Josef Newgarden Team Penske 13 1'10.0682 0.8679 0.0235 125.312 9 
Felix Rosenqvist Chip Ganassi Racing 19 1'10.1267 0.9264 0.0585 125.208 10 Zach Veach Andretti Autosport 18 1'10.1467 0.9464 0.0200 125.172 11 Alexander Rossi Andretti Autosport 18 1'10.1726 0.9723 0.0259 125.126 12 Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti Autosport 14 1'10.2418 1.0415 0.0692 125.002 13 
Will Power Team Penske 21 1'10.2422 1.0419 0.0004 125.002 14 Santino Ferrucci Dale Coyne Racing 22 1'10.2943 1.0940 0.0521 124.909 15 Jack Harvey Meyer Shank Racing 19 1'10.3249 1.1246 0.0306 124.855 16 Simon Pagenaud Team Penske 22 1'10.3663 1.1660 0.0414 124.781 17 Spencer Pigot Ed Carpenter Racing 18 1'10.3720 1.1717 0.0057 124.771 18 
Ed Jones Ed Carpenter Racing 18 1'10.3901 1.1898 0.0181 124.739 19 
Helio Castroneves Team Penske 21 1'10.3970 1.1967 0.0069 124.727 20 
James Hinchcliffe Schmidt Peterson Motorsports 17 1'10.4492 1.2489 0.0522 124.634 21 Matheus Leist A.J. Foyt Enterprises 19 1'10.6114 1.4111 0.1622 124.348 22 Marcus Ericsson Schmidt Peterson Motorsports 20 1'10.7138 1.5135 0.1024 124.168 23 Tony Kanaan A.J. Foyt Enterprises 15 1'10.9381 1.7378 0.2243 123.776
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