Rossi tops Gateway IndyCar practice

Fast man Rossi and his crew wait out the rain
Fast man Rossi and his crew wait out the rain

Alexander Rossi remains on a tear an topped rain delayed IndyCar practice at Gateway with a lap of 184.424mph to lead feloow Honda drivers Scott Dixon and Sebastien Bourdais.

Rossi was a full 2/10ths of a second faster than Dixon, a lot on the short 1.25-mile oval. Rossi is gunning to catch Dixon in points and is driving better than anyone right now.

Because of the rain delay qualifying has been cancelled and the cars will lineup based on entrant points.

Results

Pos No Name FTime Diff Gap FSpeed Engine Team
1 27 Alexander Rossi 24.400 –.—- –.—- 184.424 Honda Andretti Autosport
2 9 Scott Dixon 24.621 0.2204 0.2204 182.773 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
3 18 Sebastien Bourdais 24.634 0.2336 0.0132 182.675 Honda Dale Coyne Racing w/VS
4 14 Tony Kanaan 24.665 0.2648 0.0312 182.444 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
5 10 Ed Jones 24.676 0.2756 0.0108 182.364 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
6 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay 24.781 0.3804 0.1468 181.593 Honda Andretti Autosport
7 21 Spencer Pigot 24.793 0.3929 0.0125 181.501 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
8 26 Zach Veach 24.806 0.4062 0.0133 181.404 Honda Andretti Autosport
9 5 James Hinchcliffe 24.872 0.4713 0.0651 180.929 Honda Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
10 1 Josef Newgarden 24.941 0.5402 0.0689 180.429 Chevy Team Penske
11 12 Will Power 25.001 0.6007 0.0605 179.993 Chevy Team Penske
12 22 Simon Pagenaud 25.003 0.6023 0.0016 179.981 Chevy Team Penske
13 20 Ed Carpenter 25.017 0.6162 0.0139 179.881 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
14 15 Graham Rahal 25.029 0.6286 0.0124 179.792 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan
15 88 Gabby Chaves 25.211 0.8109 0.1823 178.492 Chevy Harding Racing
16 98 Marco Andretti 25.254 0.8533 0.0424 178.192 Honda Andretti Herta Autosport w/CA
17 19 Pietro Fittipaldi 25.449 1.0484 0.1951 176.826 Honda Dale Coyne Racing
18 23 Charlie Kimball 25.487 1.0871 0.0387 176.558 Chevy Carlin
19 59 Max Chilton 25.493 1.0929 0.0058 176.518 Chevy Carlin
20 4 Matheus Leist 25.634 1.2337 0.1408 175.548 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
21 30 Takuma Sato 25.680 1.2795 0.0458 175.235 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan