Saavedra leads open Indy Lights practice at Barber
Saavedra turned a lap of 1:17.7126 in the No. 27 Team AFS car for AFS Racing/Andretti Autosport. The Sam Schmidt Motorsports duo of Victor Carbone and Oliver Webb were second and third, respectively.
Sunoco Pole Qualifying for the Grand Prix of Alabama is scheduled for 9:40 a.m. on March 31.
POST-PRACTICE QUOTES:
SEBASTIAN SAAVEDRA (No. 27 Team AFS): "From where we were [when we tested here], it's a very different condition because of all the tire compounds with the Rolex and the GT cars. But at the end, we're still very competitive. We've shown that we have a strong pace, mostly for a long run. It's very important, the qualifying session around here, because if you do bad in qualifying it's very hard to pass. So we're very focused on having a fast car for qualifying session, and a very consistent car for a race because the tires go very easily around here." (About returning to Firestone Indy Lights): "It for sure helps to test here before the race. Last two weeks we've been testing different things with the team, and now I have a new teammate that we're able to work together, and now I think after St. Pete we got to know each other a lot more, and now I get to work a lot better with my engineers now that they know me. They know my work ethics, and I know their work ethic, so for sure it helps. We're coming back after a great test, we did very good in that test. I love this place, and we're very pumped after a good weekend in St. Pete, and I want to keep it up for the start of the season."
Results
Rank | Car | Driver | Time | Diff. | Gap | Laps |
1 | 27 | Sebastian Saavedra | 1:17.7126 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 18 |
2 | 3 | Victor Carbone | 1:18.4128 | 0.7002 | 0.7002 | 10 |
3 | 7 | Oliver Webb | 1:18.4835 | 0.7709 | 0.0707 | 13 |
4 | 77 | Tristan Vautier | 1:18.5226 | 0.8100 | 0.0391 | 14 |
5 | 26 | Carlos Munoz | 1:18.6692 | 0.9566 | 0.1466 | 22 |
6 | 86 | JV Horto | 1:18.8923 | 1.1797 | 0.2231 | 22 |
7 | 20 | Darryl Wills | 1:18.9154 | 1.2028 | 0.0231 | 23 |
8 | 11 | Esteban Guerrieri | 1:18.9398 | 1.2272 | 0.0244 | 23 |
9 | 76 | Juan Pablo Garcia | 1:18.9928 | 1.2802 | 0.0530 | 23 |
10 | 4 | Jorge Goncalvez | 1:19.1867 | 1.4741 | 0.1939 | 22 |
11 | 2 | Gustavo Yacaman | 1:19.3865 | 1.6739 | 0.1998 | 18 |
12 | 22 | David Ostella | 1:19.4042 | 1.6916 | 0.0177 | 23 |
13 | 24 | Armaan Ebrahim | 1:19.5172 | 1.8046 | 0.1130 | 21 |
14 | 28 | Troy Castaneda | 1:19.5366 | 1.8240 | 0.0194 | 22 |
15 | 9 | Alon Day | 1:19.7300 | 2.0174 | 0.1934 | 8 |