Rossi tops IndyCar practice 3 at COTA

Alexander Rossi, fastest so far at COTA

Andretti Autosport Honda driver Alexander Rossi is the first and only driver to get down into the 1m46s bracket in the final practice session for the IndyCars at the Circuit of Americas in Austin Texas.

Rossi's lap of 1m46.9148s on the harder black tires was enough to bump rookie sensation Felix Rosenqvist driving for Chip Ganassi racing off the top by 0.1388s.

Alexander Rossi

Honda powered cars ran 1-2-3-4 with Graham Rahal and Ryan Hunter-Reay putting up the 3rd and 4th quick times.

Josef Newgarden was the top Chevy – 5th quick in the #2 Penske Chevy.

The session was red-flagged with 4 minutes left in the session when Marcus Ericsson lost control in Turn 19 and went nose-first into the barrier. He did not hit too hard and was not injured.

Practice 3 Results

Pos	No	Name	FTime	Diff	Gap	Laps	Engine	Team
1	27	Alexander Rossi	1:46.915	–.—-	–.—-	10	Honda	Andretti Autosport
2	10	Felix Rosenqvist	1:47.054	0.1388	0.1388	13	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
3	15	Graham Rahal	1:47.440	0.5249	0.3861	11	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
4	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	1:47.536	0.6215	0.0966	12	Honda	Andretti Autosport
5	2	Josef Newgarden	1:47.537	0.6224	0.0009	11	Chevy	Team Penske
6	9	Scott Dixon	1:47.622	0.7070	0.0846	12	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
7	12	Will Power	1:47.666	0.7512	0.0442	11	Chevy	Team Penske
8	21	Spencer Pigot	1:47.686	0.7707	0.0195	11	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
9	22	Simon Pagenaud	1:47.739	0.8239	0.0532	10	Chevy	Team Penske
10	18	Sebastien Bourdais	1:47.770	0.8552	0.0313	10	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sulli
11	26	Zach Veach	1:47.804	0.8888	0.0336	11	Honda	Andretti Autosport
12	88	Colton Herta	1:47.810	0.8949	0.0061	11	Honda	Harding Steinbrenner Racing
13	30	Takuma Sato	1:47.933	1.0185	0.1236	11	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
14	31	Patricio O'Ward	1:47.982	1.0668	0.0483	11	Chevy	Carlin
15	20	Ed Jones	1:48.123	1.2080	0.1412	6	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
16	5	James Hinchcliffe	1:48.171	1.2558	0.0478	8	Honda	Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
17	7	Marcus Ericsson	1:48.291	1.3763	0.1205	9	Honda	Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsport
18	60	Jack Harvey	1:48.415	1.5002	0.1239	11	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing with Arrow SPM
19	98	Marco Andretti	1:48.534	1.6194	0.1192	12	Honda	Andretti Herta Autosport with Curb-Agaj
20	19	Santino Ferrucci	1:48.539	1.6244	0.0050	10	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing
21	4	Matheus Leist	1:48.578	1.6635	0.0391	5	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
22	59	Max Chilton	1:48.966	2.0507	0.3872	9	Chevy	Carlin
23	14	Tony Kanaan	1:49.102	2.1875	0.1368	8	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
24	32	Kyle Kaiser	1:50.030	3.1149	0.9274	9	Chevy	Juncos Racing