Hot News IndyCar

Pagenaud leads Saturday practice

Brian Carroccio

Simon Pagenaud continues to be quick at Sonoma
Simon Pagenaud continues to be quick at Sonoma

Team Penske's Simon Pagenaud placed the No. 1 DXC Technology Team Penske Chevrolet atop the time sheets in Saturday practice for the GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma. The defending Verizon IndyCar Series Champion and Sonoma winner was 0.1125s ahead of Scott Dixon. Dixon, a three-time Sonoma winner, sits a mere three points behind championship leader Josef Newgarden entering tomorrow's season finale.

Will Power, Newgarden, and Helio Castroneves rounded out the top-five.

RESULTS 

P No Name FTime Diff Gap FL Laps FSpeed Engine Team
1 1 Simon Pagenaud 1:16.033 –.—- –.—- 3 8 112.925 Chevy Team Penske
2 9 Scott Dixon 1:16.145 0.1125 0.1125 3 9 112.758 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
3 12 Will Power 1:16.161 0.1280 0.0155 2 9 112.735 Chevy Team Penske
4 2 Josef Newgarden 1:16.297 0.2644 0.1364 3 10 112.533 Chevy Team Penske
5 3 Helio Castroneves 1:16.478 0.4453 0.1809 3 9 112.267 Chevy Team Penske
6 26 Takuma Sato 1:16.560 0.5268 0.0815 7 7 112.148 Honda Andretti Autosport
7 15 Graham Rahal 1:16.637 0.6043 0.0775 13 14 112.034 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
8 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay 1:16.647 0.6145 0.0102 5 7 112.019 Honda Andretti Autosport
9 27 Marco Andretti 1:16.699 0.6662 0.0517 5 8 111.944 Honda Andretti Autosport with Yarrow
10 10 Tony Kanaan 1:16.710 0.6766 0.0104 2 8 111.929 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
11 18 Sebastien Bourdais 1:16.767 0.7346 0.0580 2 7 111.844 Honda Dale Coyne Racing
12 98 Alexander Rossi 1:16.768 0.7349 0.0003 2 10 111.844 Honda Andretti Herta Autosport with Curb-Agajanian
13 8 Max Chilton 1:17.017 0.9846 0.2497 13 13 111.481 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
14 83 Charlie Kimball 1:17.127 1.0942 0.1096 11 15 111.323 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
15 19 Ed Jones 1:17.148 1.1150 0.0208 11 12 111.293 Honda Dale Coyne Racing
16 20 Spencer Pigot 1:17.209 1.1760 0.0610 3 13 111.205 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
17 5 James Hinchcliffe 1:17.218 1.1846 0.0086 2 11 111.192 Honda Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
18 7 Jack Harvey 1:17.265 1.2317 0.0471 2 12 111.125 Honda Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
19 14 Carlos Munoz 1:17.284 1.2507 0.0190 13 16 111.097 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
20 4 Conor Daly 1:17.363 1.3304 0.0797 13 13 110.983 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
21 21 JR Hildebrand 1:17.368 1.3355 0.0051 16 20 110.976 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
22 13 Zachary Claman DeMelo 1:17.845 1.8119 0.4764 10 16 110.296 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing