Hunter-Reay tops only IndyCar Mid-Ohio Practice Session

IndyCar has a condensed schedule for this weekend’s Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio and Saturday morning featured the only practice session.

Andretti Autosport’s Ryan Hunter-Reay turned the fastest lap with a time of 1m06.303s to lead the practice session over Team Penske’s Will Power by just 0.0918s.

The #27 Andretti Autosport Honda of Alexander Rossi was third quick 0.1265s back after leading most of the session.

Points leader Scott Dixon was 4th quick in his Ganassi Honda while Santino Ferrucci rounded out the top-5 in his Dale Coyne Honda.

Honda had 4 cars in the top-5.

Qualifying is up next.  The run for pole should be exciting.

Practice Results

Pos No Name Time Diff Gap FL Laps Speed Engine Team
1 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay 1:06.303 –.—- –.—- 25 27 122.600 Honda Andretti Autosport
2 12 Will Power 1:06.395 0.0918 0.0918 23 26 122.431 Chevy Team Penske
3 27 Alexander Rossi 1:06.430 0.1265 0.0347 24 26 122.367 Honda Andretti Autosport
4 9 Scott Dixon 1:06.441 0.1373 0.0108 23 23 122.347 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
5 18 Santino Ferrucci 1:06.561 0.2579 0.1206 20 25 122.125 Honda Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan
6 1 Josef Newgarden 1:06.695 0.3918 0.1339 24 28 121.880 Chevy Team Penske
7 55 Alex Palou 1:06.780 0.4762 0.0844 28 32 121.726 Honda Dale Coyne Racing with Team Goh
8 88 Colton Herta 1:06.835 0.5315 0.0553 27 28 121.625 Honda Andretti Harding Steinbrenner Autosport
9 20 Conor Daly 1:06.870 0.5668 0.0353 25 27 121.561 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
10 98 Marco Andretti 1:06.899 0.5953 0.0285 27 27 121.509 Honda Andretti Herta with Marco & Curb-Agajanian
11 22 Simon Pagenaud 1:06.952 0.6491 0.0538 22 27 121.411 Chevy Team Penske
12 21 Rinus VeeKay 1:06.998 0.6949 0.0458 30 34 121.328 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
13 15 Graham Rahal 1:07.015 0.7114 0.0165 30 31 121.299 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
14 10 Felix Rosenqvist 1:07.057 0.7532 0.0418 28 34 121.223 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
15 59 Max Chilton 1:07.183 0.8792 0.1260 29 29 120.996 Chevy Carlin
16 60 Jack Harvey 1:07.236 0.9322 0.0530 22 25 120.900 Honda Meyer Shank Racing
17 30 Takuma Sato 1:07.429 1.1254 0.1932 29 30 120.554 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
18 26 Zach Veach 1:07.441 1.1372 0.0118 29 33 120.533 Honda Andretti Autosport
19 7 Oliver Askew 1:07.464 1.1604 0.0232 26 27 120.491 Chevy Arrow McLaren SP
20 8 Marcus Ericsson 1:07.541 1.2379 0.0775 26 27 120.353 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
21 4 Charlie Kimball 1:07.696 1.3928 0.1549 22 25 120.078 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
22 5 Pato O’Ward 1:08.004 1.7004 0.3076 9 12 119.534 Chevy Arrow McLaren SP
23 14 Dalton Kellett 1:08.104 1.8008 0.1004 23 27 119.358 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises