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The two-and-a-half-hour session saw two red flags – both for harmless spin-and-stalls by Felix Rosenqvist of Arrow McLaren-Chevrolet and Helio Castroneves of Meyer Shank Racing-Honda.
With his 17th lap, Herta became the first driver to crack the 100sec barrier with a 1min39.9303sec effort, an average of 110.489mph.
That was just enough to pip his new teammate, series sophomore Kyle Kirkwood, by 0.0933sec, and the Meyer Shank-Honda of Simon Pagenaud by 0.1875sec.
Six drivers turned 110mph laps, with Ed Carpenter Racing’s Rinus VeeKay proving fastest of the Chevrolet runners, ahead of Team Penske’s pair of two-time champions, Josef Newgarden and Will Power.
Romain Grosjean was seventh, just ahead of Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda’s rookie and road/street course specialist Marcus Armstrong, who edged his six-time title-winning teammate and New Zealand compatriot Scott Dixon by a mere 0.0628sec.
Jack Harvey was fastest of the Rahal Letterman Lanigan-Hondas in 10th, ahead of 2021 champion Alex Palou (Ganassi) and Scott McLaughlin in the third Penske.
Dale Coyne Racing-Honda rookie Sting Ray Robb turned the most laps at 32, while fellow rookie Agustin Canapino, a touring car legend in his native Argentina, did an impressive job to grab 22nd fastest, only one second slower than his Juncos Hollinger Racing teammate Callum Ilott.
P |
Name |
FTime |
Diff |
FL |
Laps |
LapTime |
FSpeed |
Engine |
Team |
1 |
Colton Herta |
1:39.9303 |
1:39.9303 |
17 |
18 |
1:46.5651 |
110.489 |
Honda |
Andretti Autosport w/Curb-Agajanian |
2 |
Kyle Kirkwood |
1:40.0236 |
0.0933 |
20 |
20 |
1:40.0236 |
110.386 |
Honda |
Andretti Autosport |
3 |
Simon Pagenaud |
1:40.1178 |
0.1875 |
19 |
19 |
1:40.1178 |
110.282 |
Honda |
Meyer Shank Racing |
4 |
Rinus VeeKay |
1:40.1913 |
0.2610 |
22 |
22 |
1:40.1913 |
110.201 |
Chevy |
Ed Carpenter Racing |
5 |
Josef Newgarden |
1:40.2062 |
0.2759 |
23 |
24 |
1:55.4349 |
110.185 |
Chevy |
Team Penske |
6 |
Will Power |
1:40.3527 |
0.4224 |
24 |
24 |
1:40.3527 |
110.024 |
Chevy |
Team Penske |
7 |
Romain Grosjean |
1:40.3810 |
0.4507 |
5 |
10 |
1:42.2825 |
109.993 |
Honda |
Andretti Autosport |
8 |
Marcus Armstrong |
1:40.5302 |
0.5999 |
24 |
24 |
1:40.5302 |
109.830 |
Honda |
Chip Ganassi Racing |
9 |
Scott Dixon |
1:40.5930 |
0.6627 |
6 |
18 |
1:43.2968 |
109.761 |
Honda |
Chip Ganassi Racing |
10 |
Jack Harvey |
1:40.6046 |
0.6743 |
12 |
24 |
1:42.8552 |
109.748 |
Honda |
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
11 |
Alex Palou |
1:40.6435 |
0.7132 |
11 |
15 |
1:43.3530 |
109.706 |
Honda |
Chip Ganassi Racing |
12 |
Scott McLaughlin |
1:40.6552 |
0.7249 |
9 |
21 |
1:42.3503 |
109.693 |
Chevy |
Team Penske |
13 |
David Malukas |
1:40.9113 |
0.9810 |
18 |
28 |
1:43.5054 |
109.415 |
Honda |
Dale Coyne Racing with HMD |
14 |
Pato O'Ward |
1:40.9459 |
1.0156 |
5 |
6 |
1:47.0089 |
109.377 |
Chevy |
Arrow McLaren |
15 |
Felix Rosenqvist |
1:41.0030 |
1.0727 |
11 |
16 |
1:41.1082 |
109.316 |
Chevy |
Arrow McLaren |
16 |
Callum Ilott |
1:41.1045 |
1.1742 |
8 |
18 |
9:30.7142 |
109.206 |
Chevy |
Juncos Hollinger Racing |
17 |
Marcus Ericsson |
1:41.1785 |
1.2482 |
9 |
10 |
1:46.3434 |
109.126 |
Honda |
Chip Ganassi Racing |
18 |
Christian Lundgaard |
1:41.3312 |
1.4009 |
6 |
16 |
12:21.627 |
108.962 |
Honda |
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
19 |
Alexander Rossi |
1:41.5103 |
1.5800 |
8 |
15 |
1:45.0951 |
108.769 |
Chevy |
Arrow McLaren |
20 |
Conor Daly |
1:41.5225 |
1.5922 |
10 |
17 |
1:42.0697 |
108.756 |
Chevy |
Ed Carpenter Racing |
21 |
Devlin DeFrancesco |
1:41.6003 |
1.6700 |
6 |
18 |
1:44.1348 |
108.673 |
Honda |
Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport |
22 |
Agustin Canapino |
1:42.1969 |
2.2666 |
18 |
18 |
1:42.1969 |
108.039 |
Chevy |
Juncos Holling Racing |
23 |
Graham Rahal |
1:42.2185 |
2.2882 |
10 |
17 |
1:49.1656 |
108.016 |
Honda |
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
24 |
Sting Ray Robb |
1:42.2770 |
2.3467 |
32 |
32 |
1:42.2770 |
107.954 |
Honda |
Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR |
25 |
Santino Ferrucci |
1:42.3688 |
2.4385 |
12 |
13 |
1:44.2352 |
107.857 |
Chevy |
AJ Foyt Enterprises |
26 |
Helio Castroneves |
1:42.4730 |
2.5427 |
9 |
13 |
1:42.9485 |
107.747 |
Honda |
Meyer Shank Racing |
27 |
Benjamin Pedersen |
1:43.0742 |
3.1439 |
11 |
11 |
1:43.0742 |
107.119 |
Chevy |
AJ Foyt Enterprises |