Watkins Glen IndyCar: Bourdais tops wet raceday warm-up
Sebastien Bourdais edged polesitter Alexander Rossi for the fastest time at a wet Watkins Glen, as the track started with a dry line but got wetter as the session went on.
Sébastien Bourdais, Dale Coyne Racing Honda
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Bourdais was unhappy with progress in the dry conditions with his Dale Coyne Racing-Honda yesterday, but in wet conditions he showed his class with a 1min45.9510sec / 114.506mph tour of the 3.377-mile course on the fifth of his 10 laps, beating Andretti Autosport-Honda’s Alexander Rossi by 0.0105sed. Rossi turned just five laps, his best being his third.
Helio Castroneves was third in his Team Penske-Chevrolet, ahead of the very impressive Carlos Munoz, whose best was his second of five laps in the AJ Foyt Racing-Chevy.
Simon Pagenaud, who will start only 12th, will have been encouraged by his fifth fastest time, while Max Chilton was the fastest Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda driver, producing his best on the eighth of 13 laps. Conor Daly made it two Foyt cars in the Top 10, ahead of Marco Andretti (Andretti), Josef Newgarden (Penske) and Scott Dixon (Ganassi).
Local weather forecasts suggest a 60 percent chance of rain at start time, which is set for 1.40pm ET.
Watkins Glen, IndyCar warm-up
Cla | # | Driver | Laps | Time | Gap | Interval | Mph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 18 | Sébastien Bourdais | 10 | 1'45.9510 | 114.506 | ||
2 | 98 | Alexander Rossi | 5 | 1'45.9615 | 0.0105 | 0.0105 | 114.494 |
3 | 3 | Helio Castroneves | 13 | 1'46.0419 | 0.0909 | 0.0804 | 114.408 |
4 | 14 | Carlos Munoz | 5 | 1'46.1930 | 0.2420 | 0.1511 | 114.245 |
5 | 1 | Simon Pagenaud | 5 | 1'46.2526 | 0.3016 | 0.0596 | 114.181 |
6 | 8 | Max Chilton | 13 | 1'46.3130 | 0.3620 | 0.0604 | 114.116 |
7 | 4 | Conor Daly | 8 | 1'46.4845 | 0.5335 | 0.1715 | 113.932 |
8 | 27 | Marco Andretti | 6 | 1'46.8808 | 0.9298 | 0.3963 | 113.510 |
9 | 2 | Josef Newgarden | 12 | 1'47.0175 | 1.0665 | 0.1367 | 113.365 |
10 | 9 | Scott Dixon | 8 | 1'47.3090 | 1.3580 | 0.2915 | 113.057 |
11 | 10 | Tony Kanaan | 12 | 1'47.3869 | 1.4359 | 0.0779 | 112.975 |
12 | 19 | Ed Jones | 10 | 1'47.4843 | 1.5333 | 0.0974 | 112.872 |
13 | 26 | Takuma Sato | 7 | 1'47.5636 | 1.6126 | 0.0793 | 112.789 |
14 | 15 | Graham Rahal | 10 | 1'47.7874 | 1.8364 | 0.2238 | 112.555 |
15 | 20 | Spencer Pigot | 7 | 1'47.9961 | 2.0451 | 0.2087 | 112.337 |
16 | 21 | J.R. Hildebrand | 7 | 1'48.7047 | 2.7537 | 0.7086 | 111.605 |
17 | 5 | James Hinchcliffe | 9 | 1'48.7639 | 2.8129 | 0.0592 | 111.544 |
18 | 28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | 7 | 1'49.2372 | 3.2862 | 0.4733 | 111.061 |
19 | 12 | Will Power | 10 | 1'49.3767 | 3.4257 | 0.1395 | 110.919 |
20 | 7 | Jack Harvey | 12 | 1'49.8199 | 3.8689 | 0.4432 | 110.472 |
21 | 83 | Charlie Kimball | 7 | 1'50.9018 | 4.9508 | 1.0819 | 109.394 |
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