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Detroit IndyCar: Rossi top as Pagenaud wall-brush halts FP2 early
Alexander Rossi topped second practice for IndyCar’s Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix at Belle Isle, but Indy 500 winner Simon Pagenaud halted the session by smacking a wall.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Jun 1, 2019, 9:45 AM
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Rossi’s Andretti Autosport-Honda had jumped half a second clear of the first front-runner to set a strong time on alternate compound tires, Josef Newgarden, when Newgarden’s Penske-Chevrolet teammate Pagenaud struck a wall with his left-rear tire and ground to a halt on track with a broken toelink.
Rossi’s 1min15.1367sec lap thus remained top, 0.5274sec clear of Newgarden, with Scott Dixon of Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda and Will Power of Penske the only other drivers to break the 76sec barrier.
Graham Rahal, double 2017 winner here, was fifth ahead of Ryan Hunter-Reay in a second Andretti car, with Spencer Pigot (Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevy), James Hinchcliffe (Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsport-Honda), Pagenaud and Ed Jones (ECR) completing the Top 10.
Marcus Ericsson was fastest of the rookies in the second Arrow SPM car in 11th.
Saturday morning’s qualifying session will be the first track action for the NTT IndyCar Series.
The Detroit Grand Prix is the only event of the season where the grids for the first and second races are decided by morning qualifying sessions that run as two groups of 11 whose times are then combined. Whoever is fastest will start from pole and those in his group will occupy the right side of the grid, the fastest in the second group will lead the left-side of the grid.
Session results:
Cla # Driver Team Time Gap 1 27 Alexander Rossi
Andretti Autosport 1'15.1367 2 2 Josef Newgarden
Team Penske 1'15.6641 0.5274 3 9 Scott Dixon
Chip Ganassi Racing 1'15.7824 0.6457 4 12 Will Power
Team Penske 1'15.8713 0.7346 5 15 Graham Rahal
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 1'16.0757 0.9390 6 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay
Andretti Autosport 1'16.1964 1.0597 7 21 Spencer Pigot
Ed Carpenter Racing 1'16.2154 1.0787 8 5 James Hinchcliffe
Schmidt Peterson Motorsports 1'16.2551 1.1184 9 22 Simon Pagenaud
Team Penske 1'16.2923 1.1556 10 20 Ed Jones
Ed Carpenter Racing 1'16.3039 1.1672 11 7 Marcus Ericsson
Schmidt Peterson Motorsports 1'16.3759 1.2392 12 26 Zach Veach
Andretti Autosport 1'16.5364 1.3997 13 88 Colton Herta
Harding Racing 1'16.5965 1.4598 14 18 Sébastien Bourdais
Dale Coyne Racing 1'16.7427 1.6060 15 30 Takuma Sato
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 1'16.7481 1.6114 16 10 Felix Rosenqvist
Chip Ganassi Racing 1'16.8272 1.6905 17 31 Patricio O'Ward
Carlin 1'16.8539 1.7172 18 19 Santino Ferrucci
Dale Coyne Racing 1'17.1845 2.0478 19 59 Max Chilton
Carlin 1'17.1998 2.0631 20 4 Matheus Leist
A.J. Foyt Enterprises 1'17.2856 2.1489 21 14 Tony Kanaan
A.J. Foyt Enterprises 1'17.3131 2.1764 22 98 Marco Andretti
Andretti Autosport 1'17.3325 2.1958 View full results
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