Sato tops Final IndyCar practice in St. Pete
Proving that his preseason form was no mistake, Takuma Sato put his AJ Foyt Honda atop the time sheets in final practice for tomorrow's Honda GP of St. Petersburg IndyCar race.
Sato beat yesterday's fast man and pole favorite Will Power by 2/10ths of a second. James Hinchcliffe, Tony Kanaan and Sebastian Saavedra rounded out the top-5. Results
Rank | Car | Driver | Engine | Time | Speed | Diff | Gap | Laps |
1 | 14 | Sato, Takuma | Honda | 01:01.5293 | 105.316 | 0.0000s | 0.0000s | |
2 | 12 | Power, Will | Chevy | 01:01.7386 | 104.959 | 0.2093 | 0.2093 | 18 |
3 | 27 | Hinchcliffe, James | Chevy | 01:01.8971 | 104.690 | 0.3678 | 0.1585 | 18 |
4 | 11 | Kanaan, Tony | Chevy | 01:01.9087 | 104.670 | 0.3794 | 0.0116 | 15 |
5 | 6 | Saavedra, Sebastian | Chevy | 01:01.9457 | 104.608 | 0.4164 | 0.0370 | 17 |
6 | 25 | Andretti, Marco | Chevy | 01:01.9880 | 104.536 | 0.4587 | 0.0423 | 14 |
7 | 1 | Hunter-Reay, Ryan | Chevy | 01:02.0207 | 104.481 | 0.4914 | 0.0327 | 16 |
8 | 10 | Franchitti, Dario | Honda | 01:02.0490 | 104.434 | 0.5197 | 0.0283 | 22 |
9 | 67 | Newgarden, Josef | Honda | 01:02.0981 | 104.351 | 0.5688 | 0.0491 | 19 |
10 | 78 | de Silvestro, Simona | Chevy | 01:02.1157 | 104.321 | 0.5864 | 0.0176 | 14 |
11 | 15 | Rahal, Graham | Honda | 01:02.1223 | 104.310 | 0.5930 | 0.0066 | 21 |
12 | 7 | Bourdais, Sebastien | Chevy | 01:02.1459 | 104.271 | 0.6166 | 0.0236 | 18 |
13 | 9 | Dixon, Scott | Honda | 01:02.1850 | 104.205 | 0.6557 | 0.0391 | 21 |
14 | 16 | Jakes, James | Honda | 01:02.2040 | 104.173 | 0.6747 | 0.0190 | 16 |
15 | 55 | Vautier, Tristan (R) | Honda | 01:02.2576 | 104.084 | 0.7283 | 0.0536 | 18 |
16 | 3 | Castroneves, Helio | Chevy | 01:02.2606 | 104.079 | 0.7313 | 0.0030 | 18 |
17 | 22 | Servia, Oriol | Chevy | 01:02.3027 | 104.008 | 0.7734 | 0.0421 | 13 |
18 | 4 | Hildebrand, JR | Chevy | 01:02.3174 | 103.984 | 0.7881 | 0.0147 | 20 |
19 | 19 | Wilson, Justin | Honda | 01:02.3795 | 103.880 | 0.8502 | 0.0621 | 14 |
20 | 77 | Pagenaud, Simon | Honda | 01:02.3936 | 103.857 | 0.8643 | 0.0141 | 21 |
21 | 98 | Tagliani, Alex | Honda | 01:02.4715 | 103.727 | 0.9422 | 0.0779 | 17 |
22 | 83 | Kimball, Charlie | Honda | 01:02.5344 | 103.623 | 1.0051 | 0.0629 | 14 |
23 | 5 | Viso, EJ | Chevy | 01:03.0992 | 102.695 | 1.5699 | 0.5648 | 5 |
24 | 20 | Carpenter, Ed | Chevy | 01:03.1658 | 102.587 | 1.6365 | 0.0666 | 16 |
25 | 18 | Beatriz, Ana | Honda | 01:03.3169 | 102.342 | 1.7876 | 0.1511 | 17 |