Kimball tops night IndyCar practice in Phoenix
Kimball leads Andretti in night practice |
Charlie Kimball topped the second and final practice session for the second race of the 2018 IndyCar season, which is the Desert Diamond West Valley Casino Phoenix Grand Prix at ISM Raceway in Avondale, Arizona.
Kimball posted a top lap speed of 179.797 miles per hour (20.4631 second) around the four-turn, 1.022-mile dogleg oval in his #23 Chevrolet for Carlin Motorsport. He is set to start tomorrow night’s race way back in 22nd place after a lackluster qualifying run.
Despite all the rubber laid down to try and develop a 2nd groove, none has developed and the race will be single file lap after lap after lap. The only saving grace might be when the tires wear and the drivers start to lose control of their cars. Assuming they back out of the throttle and don't plaster the wall with expensive carbon fiber, we could see some passing.
We expect this to happen as the lower downforce cars separate the talented from the wankers.
Results
Pos | No | Name | FTime | Diff | Gap | FSpeed | Engine | Team |
1 | 23 | Charlie Kimball | 20.463 | –.—- | –.—- | 179.797 | Chevy | Carlin |
2 | 9 | Scott Dixon | 20.554 | 0.0908 | 0.0908 | 179.003 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing Teams |
3 | 14 | Tony Kanaan | 20.587 | 0.1240 | 0.0332 | 178.714 | Chevy | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
4 | 27 | Alexander Rossi | 20.642 | 0.1794 | 0.0554 | 178.234 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
5 | 88 | Gabby Chaves | 20.770 | 0.3067 | 0.1273 | 177.142 | Chevy | Harding Racing |
6 | 1 | Josef Newgarden | 20.786 | 0.3231 | 0.0164 | 177.002 | Chevy | Team Penske |
7 | 28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | 20.806 | 0.3432 | 0.0201 | 176.831 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
8 | 98 | Marco Andretti | 20.811 | 0.3474 | 0.0042 | 176.795 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
9 | 15 | Graham Rahal | 20.827 | 0.3638 | 0.0164 | 176.656 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan |
10 | 30 | Takuma Sato | 20.848 | 0.3850 | 0.0212 | 176.477 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan |
11 | 20 | Ed Carpenter | 20.851 | 0.3877 | 0.0027 | 176.454 | Chevy | Ed Carpenter Racing |
12 | 22 | Simon Pagenaud | 20.856 | 0.3932 | 0.0055 | 176.407 | Chevy | Team Penske |
13 | 21 | Spencer Pigot | 20.903 | 0.4400 | 0.0468 | 176.012 | Chevy | Ed Carpenter Racing |
14 | 5 | James Hinchcliffe | 20.941 | 0.4781 | 0.0381 | 175.692 | Honda | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports |
15 | 4 | Matheus Leist | 20.942 | 0.4785 | 0.0004 | 175.689 | Chevy | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
16 | 12 | Will Power | 20.951 | 0.4880 | 0.0095 | 175.609 | Chevy | Team Penske |
17 | 59 | Max Chilton | 20.973 | 0.5102 | 0.0222 | 175.423 | Chevy | Carlin |
18 | 6 | Robert Wickens | 20.976 | 0.5128 | 0.0026 | 175.401 | Honda | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports |
19 | 26 | Zach Veach | 21.004 | 0.5405 | 0.0277 | 175.170 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
20 | 10 | Ed Jones | 21.033 | 0.5701 | 0.0296 | 174.923 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing Teams |
21 | 18 | Sebastien Bourdais | 21.131 | 0.6677 | 0.0976 | 174.116 | Honda | Dale Coyne Racing |
22 | 32 | Kyle Kaiser | 21.149 | 0.6856 | 0.0179 | 173.968 | Chevy | Juncos Racing |
23 | 19 | Pietro Fittipaldi | 21.360 | 0.8970 | 0.2114 | 172.246 | Honda | Dale Coyne Racing |