Toronto IndyCar: Sato sets unofficial track record in FP3
Takuma Sato put his Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda on top in Saturday morning practice with a new track record, despite the drivers using the primary compound.
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Sato lapped the course in 58.6777sec, an average of 109.551mph to edge Josef Newgarden’s Penske-Chevrolet by just a tenth of a second. That's an (unofficial) track record for this course layout.
Newgarden might have improved on that time with his final lap but ended the session in a tire wall, where rookie Robert Wickens had also just parked his Schmidt Peterson Motorsports-Honda.
Will Power at last found a turn of speed to go P3, one-tenth behind Newgarden, with Alexander Rossi fourth just a couple of hundredths down in the first of the Andretti Autosport-Hondas.
Spencer Pigot was an impressive fifth for Ed Carpenter Racing, beating yesterday’s pacesetter Scott Dixon who made a brief visit to an escape road.
Wickens grabbed P7 on his last lap before his session-ending incident.
Conor Daly, making his return to the series in a one-off with Harding Racing, was P20, 1.1sec from top spot.
Toronto, IndyCar third practice
Cla | # | Driver | Laps | Time | Gap | Interval | Mph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 30 | Takuma Sato | 22 | 58.6777 | 109.551 | ||
2 | 1 | Josef Newgarden | 20 | 58.7750 | 0.0973 | 0.0973 | 109.369 |
3 | 12 | Will Power | 20 | 58.8758 | 0.1981 | 0.1008 | 109.182 |
4 | 27 | Alexander Rossi | 21 | 58.8997 | 0.2220 | 0.0239 | 109.138 |
5 | 21 | Spencer Pigot | 20 | 58.9529 | 0.2752 | 0.0532 | 109.039 |
6 | 9 | Scott Dixon | 22 | 58.9569 | 0.2792 | 0.0040 | 109.032 |
7 | 6 | Robert Wickens | 21 | 59.0128 | 0.3351 | 0.0559 | 108.929 |
8 | 15 | Graham Rahal | 20 | 59.0157 | 0.3380 | 0.0029 | 108.923 |
9 | 28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | 21 | 59.0366 | 0.3589 | 0.0209 | 108.885 |
10 | 10 | Ed Jones | 24 | 59.1202 | 0.4425 | 0.0836 | 108.731 |
11 | 98 | Marco Andretti | 21 | 59.2087 | 0.5310 | 0.0885 | 108.568 |
12 | 18 | Sébastien Bourdais | 21 | 59.2292 | 0.5515 | 0.0205 | 108.531 |
13 | 22 | Simon Pagenaud | 23 | 59.3004 | 0.6227 | 0.0712 | 108.400 |
14 | 5 | James Hinchcliffe | 22 | 59.3569 | 0.6792 | 0.0565 | 108.297 |
15 | 26 | Zach Veach | 22 | 59.5250 | 0.8473 | 0.1681 | 107.991 |
16 | 14 | Tony Kanaan | 22 | 59.5387 | 0.8610 | 0.0137 | 107.966 |
17 | 59 | Max Chilton | 23 | 59.6743 | 0.9966 | 0.1356 | 107.721 |
18 | 20 | Jordan King | 21 | 59.6805 | 1.0028 | 0.0062 | 107.710 |
19 | 4 | Matheus Leist | 24 | 59.7405 | 1.0628 | 0.0600 | 107.602 |
20 | 88 | Conor Daly | 18 | 59.7835 | 1.1058 | 0.0430 | 107.524 |
21 | 19 | Zachary Claman De Melo | 22 | 59.9181 | 1.2404 | 0.1346 | 107.283 |
22 | 32 | Rene Binder | 27 | 59.9938 | 1.3161 | 0.0757 | 107.147 |
23 | 23 | Charlie Kimball | 18 | 1'00.0148 | 1.3371 | 0.0210 | 107.110 |
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