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Long Beach IndyCar: Herta leads warm-up
Harding Steinbrenner Racing-Honda’s Colton Herta grabbed top spot in raceday warm-up for the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, beating Marco Andretti by quarter of a second.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Apr 14, 2019, 4:53 PM
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Herta, who set his time on Firestone’s red alternate compound tires, set a best time of 67.1053sec, an average speed of 105.577mph around the classic 1.968-mile street course.
All four Andretti Autosport cars were in the top 10, with Andretti closely followed by Ryan Hunter-Reay in third, polesitter and defending race-winner Alexander Rossi in seventh and series sophomore Zach Veach in eighth.
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda pair Graham Rahal and Takuma Sato, who locked out the front row at Barber Motorsports Park last week and qualified sixth and eighth for today’s race, finished warm-up in fourth and fifth. Sixth went to Scott Dixon, whose Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda will start on the front row this afternoon.
Three-time Long Beach winner Sebastien Bourdais was ninth in the Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan Honda, while Spencer Pigot was fastest Chevrolet driver in 10th.
Patricio O’Ward tagged a wall early in the session and had to pit for Carlin Racing to carry out repairs, but once his car was healthy, he went out and snuck ahead of all the Team Penske-Chevys, which will roll off from third, fourth and fifth this afternoon.
The green flag for the 45th Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach will wave at 1:42pm local (Pacific) time.
Warm-up times:
Pos. # Driver Team Time Gap 1 88 
Colton Herta Harding Racing 1'07.1053 2 98 Marco Andretti Andretti Autosport 1'07.3466 0.2413 3 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti Autosport 1'07.4017 0.2964 4 15 Graham Rahal Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 1'07.5769 0.4716 5 30 
Takuma Sato Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 1'07.7021 0.5968 6 9 
Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing 1'07.9018 0.7965 7 27 Alexander Rossi Andretti Autosport 1'07.9051 0.7998 8 26 Zach Veach Andretti Autosport 1'08.3183 1.2130 9 18 
Sébastien Bourdais Dale Coyne Racing 1'08.3749 1.2696 10 21 Spencer Pigot Ed Carpenter Racing 1'08.3886 1.2833 11 5 
James Hinchcliffe Schmidt Peterson Motorsports 1'08.3990 1.2937 12 31 
Patricio O'Ward 
Carlin 1'08.5285 1.4232 13 12 
Will Power Team Penske 1'08.5326 1.4273 14 19 Santino Ferrucci Dale Coyne Racing 1'08.5393 1.4340 15 22 Simon Pagenaud Team Penske 1'08.5887 1.4834 16 10 
Felix Rosenqvist Chip Ganassi Racing 1'08.5927 1.4874 17 14 
Tony Kanaan A.J. Foyt Enterprises 1'08.6564 1.5511 18 60 Jack Harvey Meyer Shank Racing 1'08.7401 1.6348 19 20 
Ed Jones Ed Carpenter Racing 1'08.7455 1.6402 20 2 Josef Newgarden Team Penske 1'08.9668 1.8615 21 4 Matheus Leist A.J. Foyt Enterprises 1'08.9874 1.8821 22 59 Max Chilton Carlin 1'09.0233 1.9180 23 7 Marcus Ericsson Schmidt Peterson Motorsports 1'09.2629 2.1576
Starting grid:
Pos. # Driver Team Time Gap 1 27 Alexander Rossi Andretti Autosport 1'06.4811 2 9 Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing 1'06.7479 0.2668 3 12 Will Power Team Penske 1'06.8748 0.3937 4 2 Josef Newgarden Team Penske 1'06.9096 0.4285 5 22 Simon Pagenaud Team Penske 1'07.1877 0.7066 6 15 Graham Rahal Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 1'07.3052 0.8241 7 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti Autosport 1'07.1520 0.6709 8 30 Takuma Sato Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 1'07.2626 0.7815 9 31 Patricio O'Ward Carlin 1'07.2764 0.7953 10 88 Colton Herta Harding Racing 1'07.7721 1.2910 11 98 Marco Andretti Andretti Autosport 1'08.3746 1.8935 12 10 Felix Rosenqvist Chip Ganassi Racing 1'08.4410 1.9599 13 19 Santino Ferrucci Dale Coyne Racing 1'08.1008 1.6197 14 18 Sébastien Bourdais Dale Coyne Racing 1'07.3135 0.8324 15 5 James Hinchcliffe Schmidt Peterson Motorsports 1'08.1811 1.7000 16 59 Max Chilton Carlin 1'07.4577 0.9766 17 20 Ed Jones Ed Carpenter Racing 1'08.7711 2.2900 18 60 Jack Harvey Meyer Shank Racing 1'07.5287 1.0476 19 7 Marcus Ericsson Schmidt Peterson Motorsports 1'08.9516 2.4705 20 4 Matheus Leist A.J. Foyt Enterprises 1'07.7317 1.2506 21 14 Tony Kanaan A.J. Foyt Enterprises 3'22.3800 2'15.8989 22 26 Zach Veach Andretti Autosport 1'07.7822 1.3011 23 21 Spencer Pigot Ed Carpenter Racing 1'07.8763 1.3952
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