IndyCar: Andretti tops rookie/refresher practice, Ericsson tops session 1 at Indy

Marcus Ericsson led the way in the opening test session from 10:00an to Noon for this year’s 107th running of the Indianapolis 500, beating Helio Castroneves and Alex Palou.

Marco Andretti nipped his former Andretti Autosport teammate Ryan Hunter-Reay in the 2-hour rookie and veteran refresher session from Noon to 2:00pm

Those in the Rookie Orientation Program are obliged to run Phase 1 – 10 laps at 205-210mph, Phase 2 – 15 laps at 210-215mph and Phase 3 – 15 laps at 215-plus mph.

Those needing to take the Refresher course are drivers who have not raced an IndyCar on a speedway since the previous Indianapolis 500. They just have to run Phases 2 and 3.

Rookie/Refresher Practice

Rank	Car	Driver Name	Engine	Time	Speed	Behind	Gap
1	98	Andretti, Marco	Honda	00:40.6194	221.569	–.—-	–.—-
2	23	Hunter-Reay, Ryan	Chevy	00:40.6280	221.522	0.0086	0.0086
3	24	Wilson, Stefan	Chevy	00:40.6355	221.481	0.0161	0.0075
4	98	Andretti, Marco	Honda	00:40.6469	221.419	0.0275	0.0114
5	78	Canapino, Agustin (R)	Chevy	00:41.0149	219.432	0.3955	0.3680
6	66	Kanaan, Tony	Chevy	00:41.1545	218.688	0.5351	0.1396
7	55	Pedersen, Benjamin (R)	Chevy	00:41.1561	218.680	0.5367	0.0016
8	44	Legge, Katherine	Honda	00:41.2081	218.404	0.5887	0.0520
9	51	Robb, Sting Ray (R)	Honda	00:41.4378	217.193	0.8184	0.2297

(R) Rookie

Session 1 Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Engine	Time	Behind	Speed
1	Marcus Ericsson	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	40.1194	0.0000	224.330mph
2	Helio Castroneves	Meyer Shank Racing	Honda	40.1284	0.0090	224.280mph
3	Alex Palou	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	40.1628	0.0434	224.088mph
4	Scott McLaughlin	Team Penske	Chevrolet	40.1848	0.0654	223.965mph
5	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	Chevrolet	40.2208	0.1014	223.765mph
6	Simon Pagenaud	Meyer Shank Racing	Honda	40.2612	0.1418	223.540mph
7	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	40.2746	0.1552	223.466mph
8	Colton Herta	Andretti Autosport	Honda	40.2849	0.1655	223.409mph
9	David Malukas	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	40.2883	0.1689	223.390mph
10	Conor Daly	Ed Carpenter Racing	Chevrolet	40.3381	0.2187	223.114mph
11	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	Chevrolet	40.3815	0.2621	222.874mph
12	Will Power	Team Penske	Chervrolet	40.4326	0.3132	222.593mph
13	Felix Rosenqvist	Arrow McLaren	Chevrolet	40.4468	0.3274	222.515mph
14	Pato O‘Ward	Arrow McLaren	Chevrolet	40.4719	0.3525	222.377mph
15	Rinus VeeKay	Ed Carpenter Racing	Chevrolet	40.5175	0.3981	222.126mph
16	Takuma Sato	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	40.5384	0.4190	222.012mph
17	Devlin DeFrancesco	Andretti	Honda	40.7387	0.6193	220.920mph
18	Callum Ilott	Juncos Hollinger Racing	Chevrolet	40.7403	0.6209	220.911mph
19	Santino Ferrucci	AJ Foyt	Chevrolet	40.8032	0.6838	220.571mph
20	Christian Lundgaard	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	40.8676	0.7482	220.223mph
21	Jack Harvey	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	40.8755	0.7561	220.181mph
22	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	40.9705	0.8511	219.670mph
23	Alexander Rossi	Arrow McLaren	Chevrolet	40.9992	0.8798	219.516mph
24	Kyle Kirkwood	Andretti Autosport	Honda	41.1119	0.8897	219.463mph
25	Romain Grosjean	Andretti Autosport	Honda	41.0287	0.9093	219.359mph