Newgarden tops 3rd IndyCar practice at Road America

Josef Newgarden won last year and looks to repeat
Josef Newgarden won last year and looks to repeat

Josef Newgarden put up a quick lap of 1m42.8825s and then Graham Rahal crashed in Turn 7 and brought out the red flag that ending the third practice session early for the Rev Group Grand Prix at Road America.

Rookie Colton Herta was 2nd quick at 1m43.1697s followed by Will Power, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Alexander Rossi and Spencer Pigot, however, their fast laps all were ruined by the Red Flag.

IndyCar has to lengthen the sessions at Road America because the laps are so long and any stoppage means the drivers gets very few laps in. They were criticized for this last year but did nothing about it..

Practice 3 Results

Pos No Name Time Diff Gap Speed Engine Team
1 2 Josef Newgarden 1:42.882 –.—- –.—- 140.455 Chevy Team Penske
2 88 Colton Herta 1:43.170 0.2872 0.2872 140.064 Honda Harding Steinbrenner Racing
3 12 Will Power 1:43.184 0.3013 0.0141 140.045 Chevy Team Penske
4 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay 1:43.202 0.3198 0.0185 140.020 Honda Andretti Autosport
5 27 Alexander Rossi 1:43.334 0.4516 0.1318 139.842 Honda Andretti Autosport
6 21 Spencer Pigot 1:43.416 0.5333 0.0817 139.731 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
7 10 Felix Rosenqvist 1:43.540 0.6580 0.1247 139.563 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
8 19 Santino Ferrucci 1:43.672 0.7891 0.1311 139.386 Honda Dale Coyne Racing
9 5 James Hinchcliffe 1:43.737 0.8542 0.0651 139.299 Honda Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
10 31 Patricio O'Ward 1:43.757 0.8742 0.0200 139.272 Chevy Carlin
11 26 Zach Veach 1:43.758 0.8755 0.0013 139.270 Honda Andretti Autosport
12 9 Scott Dixon 1:43.796 0.9137 0.0382 139.219 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
13 22 Simon Pagenaud 1:43.860 0.9773 0.0636 139.134 Chevy Team Penske
14 18 Sebastien Bourdais 1:43.862 0.9793 0.0020 139.131 Honda Dale Coyne Racing w/Vasser-Sullivan
15 98 Marco Andretti 1:43.922 1.0400 0.0607 139.050 Honda Andretti Herta w/ Marco & Curb
16 15 Graham Rahal 1:43.942 1.0595 0.0195 139.024 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
17 20 Ed Jones 1:43.949 1.0662 0.0067 139.015 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
18 30 Takuma Sato 1:44.024 1.1412 0.0750 138.914 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
19 14 Tony Kanaan 1:44.099 1.2167 0.0755 138.814 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
20 7 Marcus Ericsson 1:44.113 1.2306 0.0139 138.795 Honda Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
21 59 Max Chilton 1:44.222 1.3400 0.1094 138.650 Chevy Carlin
22 60 Jack Harvey 1:44.649 1.7662 0.4262 138.085 Honda Meyer Shank Racing w/Arrow SPM
23 4 Matheus Leist 1:44.712 1.8294 0.0632 138.002 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprise