Pagenaud tops opening Mid-Ohio practice
With a lap time of 1:04.908, Simon Pagenaud placed the No. 1 Menards Team Penske Chevrolet atop the time charts in Friday morning's opening practice for the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio. Pagenaud, last year's winner here at Mid-Ohio, was followed by 2015 winner and hometown favorite Graham Rahal, a mere 0.0343 behind. Marco Andretti was third, with Helio Castroneves and Will Power rounding out the top-5.
The Verizon IndyCar Series will be back on track at 2:15 p.m. local time for practice 2.
Brian Carroccio reporting from Mid-Ohio
P | No | Name | FTime | Diff | Gap | FL | Laps | FSpeed | Engine | Points |
1 | 1 | Simon Pagenaud | 1:04.908 | –.—- | –.—- | 11 | 13 | 125.236 | Chevy | 404 |
2 | 15 | Graham Rahal | 1:04.942 | 0.0343 | 0.0343 | 19 | 19 | 125.170 | Honda | 359 |
3 | 27 | Marco Andretti | 1:04.981 | 0.0735 | 0.0392 | 19 | 19 | 125.094 | Honda | 268 |
4 | 3 | Helio Castroneves | 1:04.983 | 0.0755 | 0.0020 | 12 | 15 | 125.090 | Chevy | 420 |
5 | 12 | Will Power | 1:05.132 | 0.2244 | 0.1489 | 19 | 19 | 124.804 | Chevy | 359 |
6 | 8 | Max Chilton | 1:05.143 | 0.2350 | 0.0106 | 22 | 23 | 124.784 | Honda | 295 |
7 | 2 | Josef Newgarden | 1:05.191 | 0.2831 | 0.0481 | 12 | 16 | 124.692 | Chevy | 400 |
8 | 28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | 1:05.226 | 0.3177 | 0.0346 | 18 | 20 | 124.626 | Honda | 273 |
9 | 9 | Scott Dixon | 1:05.232 | 0.3241 | 0.0064 | 11 | 15 | 124.614 | Honda | 423 |
10 | 20 | Spencer Pigot | 1:05.539 | 0.6313 | 0.3072 | 17 | 20 | 124.030 | Chevy | 154 |
11 | 98 | Alexander Rossi | 1:05.541 | 0.6329 | 0.0016 | 11 | 17 | 124.027 | Honda | 330 |
12 | 5 | James Hinchcliffe | 1:05.620 | 0.7125 | 0.0796 | 10 | 12 | 123.876 | Honda | 297 |
13 | 7 | Mikhail Aleshin | 1:05.665 | 0.7572 | 0.0447 | 17 | 19 | 123.792 | Honda | 221 |
14 | 19 | Ed Jones | 1:05.666 | 0.7583 | 0.0011 | 8 | 13 | 123.790 | Honda | 276 |
15 | 14 | Carlos Munoz | 1:05.679 | 0.7715 | 0.0132 | 15 | 16 | 123.765 | Chevy | 224 |
16 | 26 | Takuma Sato | 1:05.694 | 0.7861 | 0.0146 | 14 | 17 | 123.737 | Honda | 351 |
17 | 4 | Conor Daly | 1:05.753 | 0.8448 | 0.0587 | 19 | 19 | 123.627 | Chevy | 179 |
18 | 83 | Charlie Kimball | 1:05.795 | 0.8873 | 0.0425 | 15 | 16 | 123.547 | Honda | 206 |
19 | 10 | Tony Kanaan | 1:05.816 | 0.9084 | 0.0211 | 11 | 16 | 123.507 | Honda | 306 |
20 | 18 | Esteban Gutierrez | 1:05.879 | 0.9712 | 0.0628 | 14 | 16 | 123.390 | Honda | 73 |
21 | 21 | JR Hildebrand | 1:06.025 | 1.1176 | 0.1464 | 20 | 20 | 123.116 | Chevy | 263 |