Dixon tops final practice in St. Petersburg

Scott Dixon

Scott Dixon turned the fastest lap in final IndyCar practice on the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida in his Ganassi Honda.

Dixon was followed by a bevy of Chevy powered cars led by Josef Newgarden in the #1 Penske Chevy.

Will Power, Jordan King (who put it in the final turn barrier to end the session), Matt Leist, Simon Pagenaud and Spencer Pigot in 7th.

All times were set on the harder Firestone black tires under sunny skies and a temperature of a perfect 68 degrees F.

Practice 3 Results

Pos	No	Name	FTime	Diff	Gap	FSpeed	Engine	Team
1	9	Scott Dixon	1:00.757	–.—-	–.—-	106.654	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
2	1	Josef Newgarden	1:00.865	0.1083	0.1083	106.464	Chevy	Team Penske
3	12	Will Power	1:00.872	0.1147	0.0064	106.453	Chevy	Team Penske
4	20	Jordan King	1:01.032	0.2750	0.1603	106.174	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
5	4	Matheus Leist	1:01.033	0.2756	0.0006	106.173	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
6	22	Simon Pagenaud	1:01.065	0.3083	0.0327	106.116	Chevy	Team Penske
7	21	Spencer Pigot	1:01.094	0.3369	0.0286	106.066	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
8	27	Alexander Rossi	1:01.113	0.3561	0.0192	106.033	Honda	Andretti Autosport
9	30	Takuma Sato	1:01.150	0.3930	0.0369	105.969	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
10	14	Tony Kanaan	1:01.321	0.5634	0.1704	105.674	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
11	98	Marco Andretti	1:01.353	0.5961	0.0327	105.618	Honda	Andretti Autosport with Curb-Agajanian
12	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	1:01.355	0.5977	0.0016	105.615	Honda	Andretti Autosport
13	5	James Hinchcliffe	1:01.359	0.6021	0.0044	105.608	Honda	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
14	26	Zach Veach	1:01.368	0.6107	0.0086	105.593	Honda	Andretti Autosport
15	18	Sebastien Bourdais	1:01.405	0.6482	0.0375	105.528	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing/Vasser-Sullivan
16	6	Robert Wickens	1:01.464	0.7073	0.0591	105.427	Honda	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
17	88	Gabby Chaves	1:01.513	0.7554	0.0481	105.344	Chevy	Harding Racing
18	10	Ed Jones	1:01.534	0.7766	0.0212	105.308	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
19	15	Graham Rahal	1:01.671	0.9137	0.1371	105.074	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
20	60	Jack Harvey	1:01.709	0.9523	0.0386	105.008	Honda	Michael Shank Racing
21	59	Max Chilton	1:01.855	1.0974	0.1451	104.762	Chevy	Carlin
22	23	Charlie Kimball	1:01.919	1.1622	0.0648	104.652	Chevy	Carlin
23	19	Zachary Claman De Melo	1:01.919	1.1622	0.0000	104.652	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing
24	32	Rene Binder	1:02.962	2.2044	1.0422	102.920	Chevy	Juncos Racing