Dixon lapped the 1.786-mile course in 59.1394sec to beat the Penske-Chevrolet of defending champion and defending Toronto race winner Newgarden by 0.2290sec. Ryan Hunter-Reay and Marco Andretti were third and fourth for Andretti Autosport-Honda, ahead of Graham Rahal in the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda.

Ed Jones was sixth in the second Ganassi car, his best time coming on red tires, while Conor Daly was a highly impressive seventh for Harding Racing. He rolls off 11^th today, after an excellent qualifying effort in damp conditions.

Simon Pagenaud and Will Power, the second-row starters, were only ninth and 13^th, while Juncos Racing’s Rene Binder had the best showing of his short IndyCar career, going 16^th fastest – just 1.3772sec off top time.

King's shunt saw the ECR-Chevy sustain quite heavy but repairable damage to the front-left corner, as he just missed the tire wall and struck concrete.

Tony Kanaan spun his AJ Foyt Racing-Chevy on the final lap of the session and came to rest broadside across the track, thankfully without being collected by those following.

The Honda Indy Toronto starts at 3.35pm local (Eastern) time.

IndyCar 2018 Toronto

Cla	#	Driver	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	Mph
1	9	Scott Dixon	20	59.1394			108.719
2	1	Josef Newgarden	21	59.3684	0.2290	0.2290	108.300
3	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	15	59.4536	0.3142	0.0852	108.145
4	98	Marco Andretti	17	59.5365	0.3971	0.0829	107.994
5	15	Graham Rahal	21	59.5645	0.4251	0.0280	107.943
6	10	Ed Jones	20	59.5690	0.4296	0.0045	107.935
7	88	Conor Daly	19	59.7888	0.6494	0.2198	107.539
8	30	Takuma Sato	19	59.7907	0.6513	0.0019	107.535
9	22	Simon Pagenaud	19	59.7930	0.6536	0.0023	107.531
10	14	Tony Kanaan	17	1'00.2212	1.0818	0.4282	106.766
11	4	Matheus Leist	16	1'00.2686	1.1292	0.0474	106.682
12	21	Spencer Pigot	16	1'00.2689	1.1295	0.0003	106.682
13	12	Will Power	22	1'00.4084	1.2690	0.1395	106.436
14	59	Max Chilton	19	1'00.4160	1.2766	0.0076	106.422
15	26	Zach Veach	18	1'00.5047	1.3653	0.0887	106.266
16	32	Rene Binder	19	1'00.5166	1.3772	0.0119	106.245
17	6	Robert Wickens	18	1'00.5444	1.4050	0.0278	106.196
18	23	Charlie Kimball	20	1'00.6548	1.5154	0.1104	106.003
19	18	Sébastien Bourdais	21	1'00.6553	1.5159	0.0005	106.002
20	5	James Hinchcliffe	18	1'00.6763	1.5369	0.0210	105.966
21	27	Alexander Rossi	16	1'00.8337	1.6943	0.1574	105.691
22	19	Zachary Claman De Melo	17	1'01.0680	1.9286	0.2343	105.286
23	20	Jordan King	4	1'04.6598	5.5204	3.5918	99.437