Bourdais tops final Portland practice then crashes

Sebastien Bourdais

Dale Coyne Racing driver Sebastien Bourdais turned the fastest lap (57.471s) with 2 minutes to go in final practice for the Portland GP IndyCar then as time ran out he stuffed his Honda hard into the barriers pretty much writing off his car. The team is in a race against time to get the backup ready in time for qualifying.

Graham Rahal was 2nd quick 0.0435s back in his Rahal Honda.

Will Power, Alexander Rossi and Takuma Sato rounded out the top-5 with just 0.2053s separating them.

Morning crowd was very large for a Saturday. Paddock is packed. Rumors that all grandstand seats have been sold for race…we will see. If so will be a large crowd on Sunday.

Practice 3 Results

Pos	No	Name	FTime	Diff	Gap	FSpeed	Engine	Team
1	18	Sebastien Bourdais	57.471	–.—-	–.—-	123.026	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing with VS
2	15	Graham Rahal	57.514	0.0435	0.0435	122.933	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
3	12	Will Power	57.551	0.0801	0.0366	122.855	Chevy	Team Penske
4	27	Alexander Rossi	57.623	0.1522	0.0721	122.701	Honda	Andretti Autosport
5	30	Takuma Sato	57.676	0.2053	0.0531	122.588	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
6	21	Spencer Pigot	57.679	0.2084	0.0031	122.582	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
7	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	57.683	0.2124	0.0040	122.573	Honda	Andretti Autosport
8	98	Marco Andretti	57.744	0.2301	0.0612	122.443	Honda	Andretti Herta Autosport with CA
9	1	Josef Newgarden	57.787	0.3166	0.0430	122.352	Chevy	Team Penske
10	26	Zach Veach	57.855	0.3848	0.0682	122.208	Honda	Andretti Autosport
11	9	Scott Dixon	57.856	0.3856	0.0008	122.206	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
12	20	Jordan King	57.871	0.4003	0.0147	122.175	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
13	39	Santino Ferrucci	57.873	0.4020	0.0017	122.172	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing
14	10	Ed Jones	57.875	0.4047	0.0027	122.166	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
15	6	Carlos Munoz	57.887	0.4162	0.0115	122.142	Honda	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
16	88	Gabby Chaves	57.926	0.4555	0.0393	122.059	Chevy	Harding Racing
17	19	Pietro Fittipaldi	58.048	0.5776	0.1221	121.802	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing
18	60	Jack Harvey	58.059	0.5881	0.0105	121.780	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing with SPM
19	22	Simon Pagenaud	58.135	0.6639	0.0758	121.621	Chevy	Team Penske
20	4	Matheus Leist	58.286	0.8150	0.1511	121.306	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
21	14	Tony Kanaan	58.300	0.8291	0.0141	121.277	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
22	59	Max Chilton	58.408	0.8943	0.1087	121.051	Chevy	Carlin
23	23	Charlie Kimball	58.434	0.9635	0.0257	120.998	Chevy	Carlin
24	32	Alfonso Celis Jr	58.649	1.1785	0.2150	120.554	Chevy	Juncos Racing
25	5	James Hinchcliffe	1:00.605	3.1340	1.9555	116.664	Honda	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports