Portland IndyCar: Dixon leads Newgarden, Jones in final practice
Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda’s Scott Dixon topped final practice for tomorrow’s Grand Prix of Portland, ahead of Josef Newgarden and Ed Jones.
Dixon turned a 59.4111sec lap of the 1.964-mile road course to set an average speed of 119.008mph and finish up a couple of tenths clear of Josef Newgarden of Team Penske-Chevrolet, and a hundredth ahead of Ed Jones in the Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan-Honda.
Behind them was Dixon’s Ganassi teammate and today’s pole winner Alex Palou.
Jack Harvey of Meyer Shank Racing-Honda was fifth, while all three Rahal Letterman Lanigan cars finished in the top nine. This was despite Takuma Sato causing the session’s only red flag moment with a spin and stall at the final turn.
The Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevy of Conor Daly also spun there but was able to rejoin under its own power.
IndyCar has revealed that Sato’s engine change during the morning session and Ryan Hunter-Reay’s engine change during qualifying has consigned them to the back of the grid for tomorrow’s race, along with Rinus VeeKay who started the weekend with his fifth engine of the season following his shunt at Gateway.
Tomorrow’s race begins at 12.35pm local (Pacific) time and will run for 110 laps.
P |
Name |
FTime |
Diff |
Engine |
Team |
1 |
Scott Dixon |
59.4111 |
59.4111 |
Honda |
Chip Ganassi Racing |
2 |
Josef Newgarden |
59.6296 |
0.2185 |
Chevy |
Team Penske |
3 |
Ed Jones |
59.6403 |
0.2292 |
Honda |
Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan |
4 |
Alex Palou |
59.7467 |
0.3356 |
Honda |
Chip Ganassi Racing |
5 |
Jack Harvey |
59.8976 |
0.4865 |
Honda |
Meyer Shank Racing |
6 |
Graham Rahal |
59.9019 |
0.4908 |
Honda |
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
7 |
Takuma Sato |
1:00.0880 |
0.6769 |
Honda |
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
8 |
Alexander Rossi |
1:00.2162 |
0.8051 |
Honda |
Andretti Autosport |
9 |
Oliver Askew |
1:00.2303 |
0.8192 |
Honda |
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
10 |
Rinus VeeKay |
1:00.2611 |
0.8500 |
Chevy |
Ed Carpenter Racing |
11 |
Colton Herta |
1:00.3001 |
0.8890 |
Honda |
Andretti Autosport |
12 |
Will Power |
1:00.3095 |
0.8984 |
Chevy |
Team Penske |
13 |
Scott McLaughlin |
1:00.3916 |
0.9805 |
Chevy |
Team Penske |
14 |
Max Chilton |
1:00.4267 |
1.0156 |
Chevy |
Carlin |
15 |
Conor Daly |
1:00.4422 |
1.0311 |
Chevy |
Ed Carpenter Racing |
16 |
Pato O'Ward |
1:00.4529 |
1.0418 |
Chevy |
Arrow McLaren SP |
17 |
Felix Rosenqvist |
1:00.5299 |
1.1188 |
Chevy |
Arrow McLaren SP |
18 |
Marcus Ericsson |
1:00.5710 |
1.1599 |
Honda |
Chip Ganassi Racing |
19 |
Sebastien Bourdais |
1:00.5871 |
1.1760 |
Chevy |
AJ Foyt Enterprises |
20 |
Ryan Hunter-Reay |
1:00.5973 |
1.1862 |
Honda |
Andretti Autosport |
21 |
Helio Castroneves |
1:00.6133 |
1.2022 |
Honda |
Meyer Shank Racing |
22 |
Romain Grosjean |
1:00.6685 |
1.2574 |
Honda |
Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR |
23 |
Dalton Kellett |
1:00.7102 |
1.2991 |
Chevy |
AJ Foyt Enterprises |
24 |
Simon Pagenaud |
1:00.7416 |
1.3305 |
Chevy |
Team Penske |
25 |
James Hinchcliffe |
1:01.1949 |
1.7838 |
Honda |
Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport |
26 |
Jimmie Johnson |
1:01.4827 |
2.0716 |
Honda |
Chip Ganassi Racing |
27 |
Callum Ilott |
1:01.5187 |
2.1076 |
Chevy |
Juncos Hollinger Racing |
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