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Portland IndyCar: Herta beats title contenders in FP1
Colton Herta drove the Harding Steinbrenner Racing-Honda to the top of the time sheets at Portland’s road course, outpacing Alexander Rossi, Scott Dixon and Josef Newgarden.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Aug 30, 2019, 8:50 PM
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The teenager who won at Circuit of The Americas and took pole at Road America set a 57.429sec around Portland’s 1.964-mile track, setting an average speed of 123.115mph to eclipse Andretti Autosport-Honda’s Rossi by 0.1245sec.
Dixon was a further 0.24sec adrift in the Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda, just five hundredths ahead of Newgarden of Team Penske-Chevrolet, who was the sole Bowtie representative in the Top 10.
Marco Andretti, Zach Veach and Ryan Hunter-Reay ensured all Andretti cars were in the top 10 after a strong test here two weeks ago.
James Hinchcliffe was sixth fastest for Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports-Honda while temporary teammate Conor Daly – subbing for Alfa Romeo F1 third driver Marcus Ericsson, who is in Spa on standby – was 23rdin his first run for the Arrow SPM team this year. Daly, who is competing for his third team this year, was only 1.2sec off Hinch.
Felix Rosenqvist was top rookie in eighth, less than 0.3sec from Ganassi teammate Dixon, and ahead of last year’s winner Takuma Sato and last year’ polesitter Will Power.
Matheus Leist did a commendable job to clock P13 for AJ Foyt Racing-Chevrolet, while series returnee Max Chilton was similarly impressive with 14thfor Carlin Racing-Chevrolet.
FP2 begins at 2.40pm local (Pacific) time.
Cla Driver Team Laps Time Gap Interval Mph 1 Colton Herta
Harding Racing 18 57.4293 123.115 2
Alexander Rossi
Andretti Autosport 15 57.5538 0.1245 0.1245 122.849 3
Scott Dixon
Chip Ganassi Racing 19 57.7922 0.3629 0.2384 122.342 4
Josef Newgarden
Team Penske 17 57.8504 0.4211 0.0582 122.219 5
Marco Andretti
Andretti Autosport 16 57.9006 0.4713 0.0502 122.113 6
James Hinchcliffe
Schmidt Peterson Motorsports 18 57.9479 0.5186 0.0473 122.013 7
Zach Veach
Andretti Autosport 19 57.9619 0.5326 0.0140 121.984 8
Felix Rosenqvist
Chip Ganassi Racing 27 58.0262 0.5969 0.0643 121.848 9
Ryan Hunter-Reay
Andretti Autosport 18 58.1618 0.7325 0.1356 121.564 10
Takuma Sato
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 19 58.1906 0.7613 0.0288 121.504 11
Will Power
Team Penske 21 58.2343 0.8050 0.0437 121.413 12
Simon Pagenaud
Team Penske 19 58.3294 0.9001 0.0951 121.215 13
Matheus Leist
A.J. Foyt Enterprises 23 58.3381 0.9088 0.0087 121.197 14
Max Chilton
Carlin 18 58.3436 0.9143 0.0055 121.186 15
Sébastien Bourdais
Dale Coyne Racing 17 58.4256 0.9963 0.0820 121.015 16
Graham Rahal
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 19 58.4616 1.0323 0.0360 120.941 17
Jack Harvey
Meyer Shank Racing with Arrow SPM 20 58.4922 1.0629 0.0306 120.878 18 Ed Jones
Ed Carpenter Racing 9 58.5005 1.0712 0.0083 120.861 19
Santino Ferrucci
Dale Coyne Racing 18 58.6232 1.1939 0.1227 120.608 20
Tony Kanaan
A.J. Foyt Enterprises 14 58.6592 1.2299 0.0360 120.534 21
Spencer Pigot
Ed Carpenter Racing 15 58.8380 1.4087 0.1788 120.167 22
Charlie Kimball
Carlin 21 58.9895 1.5602 0.1515 119.859 23
Conor Daly
Schmidt Peterson Motorsports 22 59.1828 1.7535 0.1933 119.467 View full results
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