Pagenaud tops opening practice in Phoenix

Simon Pagenaud
Simon Pagenaud

Team Penske's Simon Pagenaud turned the fastest lap in opening practice for the IndyCars on the 1-mile Phoenix oval with a speed of 182.375 mph.

Tony Kanaan was 2nd quick to lead a Chevy 1-2 while the Honda's of Sebastien Bourdais, Ryan Hunter-Reay and Alexander Rossi rounded out the top-5.

Results

Pos No Name FTime Diff Gap FSpeed Engine Team
1 22 Simon Pagenaud 20.174 –.—- –.—- 182.375 Chevy Team Penske
2 14 Tony Kanaan 20.181 0.0069 0.0069 182.313 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
3 18 Sebastien Bourdais 20.200 0.0263 0.0194 182.138 Honda Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan
4 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay 20.214 0.0405 0.0142 182.010 Honda Andretti Autosport
5 27 Alexander Rossi 20.229 0.0548 0.0143 181.881 Honda Andretti Autosport
6 5 James Hinchcliffe 20.235 0.0611 0.0063 181.824 Honda Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
7 10 Ed Jones 20.319 0.1448 0.0837 181.075 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
8 1 Josef Newgarden 20.335 0.1610 0.0162 180.931 Chevy Team Penske
9 4 Matheus Leist 20.372 0.1978 0.0368 180.604 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
10 6 Robert Wickens 20.416 0.2426 0.0448 180.208 Honda Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
11 9 Scott Dixon 20.495 0.3212 0.0786 179.517 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
12 12 Will Power 20.538 0.3643 0.0431 179.140 Chevy Team Penske
13 32 Kyle Kaiser 20.607 0.4332 0.0689 178.541 Chevy Juncos Racing
14 19 Pietro Fittipaldi 20.657 0.4833 0.0501 178.108 Honda Dale Coyne Racing
15 98 Marco Andretti 20.690 0.5162 0.0329 177.825 Honda Andretti Autosport with Curb-Agajanian
16 21 Spencer Pigot 20.715 0.5414 0.0252 177.609 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
17 15 Graham Rahal 20.756 0.5823 0.0409 177.259 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
18 30 Takuma Sato 20.766 0.5920 0.0097 177.176 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
19 88 Gabby Chaves 20.860 0.6858 0.0938 176.379 Chevy Harding Racing
20 20 Ed Carpenter 20.927 0.7535 0.0677 175.809 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
21 26 Zach Veach 21.102 0.9279 0.1744 174.356 Honda Andretti Autosport
22 23 Charlie Kimball 21.134 0.9600 0.0321 174.091 Chevy Carlin
23 59 Max Chilton 21.419 1.2457 0.2857 171.769 Chevy Carlin