Rahal/Montoya lead final practice
Juan Pablo Montoya |
Indianapolis 500 winner and Verizon IndyCar Series championship leader Juan Pablo Montoya and Graham Rahal set identical times in final practice for tomorrow's Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway. Rookie Gabby Chaves was third with Tony Kanaan and four-time Texas winner Helio Castroneves rounding out the top-five.
Pole winner Will Power posted the second fastest time. Defending race winner Ed Carpenter, who qualified a disappointing fifteenth, continued his struggles, as the drivers of the #20 Fuzzy's Vodka Chevrolet posted the 22nd fastest time.
The green flag for tomorrow's Firestone 600 is scheduled for around 8:50 p.m. ET.
P | # | Name | Time | Diff | Gap | FL | Laps | ST | FSpeed | Engine | PTS |
1 | 2 | Juan Pablo Montoya | 24.363 | 0.0000s | 0.0000s | 2 | 31 | 5 | 215.002 | Chevy | 315 |
2 | 15 | Graham Rahal | 24.363 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 6 | 33 | 6 | 215.002 | Honda | 246 |
3 | 98 | Gabby Chaves | 24.386 | 0.0233 | 0.0233 | 4 | 44 | 20 | 214.796 | Honda | 133 |
4 | 10 | Tony Kanaan | 24.391 | 0.0285 | 0.0052 | 3 | 33 | 8 | 214.750 | Chevy | 174 |
5 | 3 | Helio Castroneves | 24.446 | 0.0834 | 0.0549 | 4 | 44 | 3 | 214.268 | Chevy | 250 |
6 | 22 | Simon Pagenaud | 24.478 | 0.1151 | 0.0317 | 6 | 41 | 2 | 213.991 | Chevy | 193 |
7 | 1 | Will Power | 24.568 | 0.2051 | 0.0900 | 4 | 38 | 1 | 213.207 | Chevy | 294 |
8 | 19 | Tristan Vautier | 24.604 | 0.2411 | 0.0360 | 27 | 28 | 16 | 212.895 | Honda | 55 |
9 | 9 | Scott Dixon | 24.605 | 0.2419 | 0.0008 | 2 | 39 | 7 | 212.888 | Chevy | 252 |
10 | 11 | Sebastien Bourdais | 24.629 | 0.2665 | 0.0246 | 6 | 44 | 18 | 212.675 | Chevy | 228 |
11 | 26 | Carlos Munoz | 24.638 | 0.2757 | 0.0092 | 2 | 30 | 4 | 212.596 | Honda | 180 |
12 | 14 | Takuma Sato | 24.730 | 0.3673 | 0.0916 | 20 | 30 | 13 | 211.808 | Honda | 166 |
13 | 28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | 24.747 | 0.3841 | 0.0168 | 2 | 29 | 21 | 211.665 | Honda | 171 |
14 | 27 | Marco Andretti | 24.751 | 0.3880 | 0.0039 | 3 | 46 | 11 | 211.631 | Honda | 224 |
15 | 83 | Charlie Kimball | 24.807 | 0.4443 | 0.0563 | 5 | 31 | 9 | 211.151 | Chevy | 187 |
16 | 18 | Pippa Mann | 24.837 | 0.4748 | 0.0305 | 22 | 49 | 22 | 210.892 | Honda | 16 |
17 | 67 | Josef Newgarden | 24.887 | 0.5247 | 0.0499 | 9 | 30 | 14 | 210.469 | Chevy | 206 |
18 | 41 | Jack Hawksworth | 24.918 | 0.5550 | 0.0303 | 7 | 18 | 17 | 210.213 | Honda | 128 |
19 | 5 | Ryan Briscoe | 24.943 | 0.5806 | 0.0256 | 16 | 32 | 19 | 209.997 | Honda | 36 |
20 | 8 | Sage Karam | 24.946 | 0.5834 | 0.0028 | 9 | 41 | 10 | 209.974 | Chevy | 77 |
21 | 7 | James Jakes | 24.975 | 0.6127 | 0.0293 | 9 | 32 | 12 | 209.727 | Honda | 132 |
22 | 20 | Ed Carpenter | 25.018 | 0.6556 | 0.0429 | 9 | 19 | 15 | 209.368 | Chevy | 10 |
23 | 4 | Stefano Coletti | 25.083 | 0.7201 | 0.0645 | 4 | 18 | 23 | 208.829 | Chevy | 104 |