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IndyCar: Palou tops GP of Portland opening practice

Posted by AR1 staff

First he crashed, brought out a red flag, then Alex Palou recovered in the #10 Ganassi Racing Honda and turned the fastest lap in practice 1 for the Grand Prix of Portland.

His lap of 58.74s nipped the #06 Meyer Shank Racing Honda of 4-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves by just 0.1026s.

Jack Harvey, in the #60 Meyer Shank Honda was right behind his teammate with an almost identical lap time, 0.1063s behind Palou.

Pato O’Ward and Josef Newgarden rounded out the top-5.

Practice 1 Results

Pos No Name Time Diff Gap Speed Engine Team
1 10 Alex Palou 58.7824 58.7824 0.000 120.281 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
2 06 Helio Castroneves 58.8850 0.1026 0.1026 120.071 Honda Meyer Shank Racing
3 60 Jack Harvey 58.8887 0.1063 0.0037 120.064 Honda Meyer Shank Racing
4 5 Pato O’Ward 58.8933 0.1109 0.0046 120.054 Chevy Arrow McLaren SP
5 2 Josef Newgarden 58.8947 0.1123 0.0014 120.052 Chevy Team Penske
6 51 Romain Grosjean 58.9055 0.1231 0.0108 120.030 Honda Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR
7 12 Will Power 58.9198 0.1374 0.0143 120.000 Chevy Team Penske
8 27 Alexander Rossi 58.9325 0.1501 0.0127 119.975 Honda Andretti Autosport
9 26 Colton Herta 58.9473 0.1649 0.0148 119.944 Honda Andretti Autosport
10 15 Graham Rahal 58.9914 0.2090 0.0441 119.855 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
11 9 Scott Dixon 59.0083 0.2259 0.0169 119.820 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
12 3 Scott McLaughlin 59.0669 0.2845 0.0586 119.702 Chevy Team Penske
13 7 Felix Rosenqvist 59.1094 0.3270 0.0425 119.615 Chevy Arrow McLaren SP
14 8 Marcus Ericsson 59.1181 0.3357 0.0087 119.598 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
15 14 Sebastien Bourdais 59.2913 0.5089 0.1732 119.249 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
16 45 Oliver Askew 59.2982 0.5158 0.0069 119.235 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
17 21 Rinus VeeKay 59.3097 0.5273 0.0115 119.212 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
18 29 James Hinchcliffe 59.3125 0.5301 0.0028 119.206 Honda Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
19 18 Ed Jones 59.3383 0.5559 0.0258 119.154 Honda Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan
20 48 Jimmie Johnson 59.4554 0.6730 0.1171 118.919 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
21 20 Conor Daly 59.5366 0.7542 0.0812 118.757 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
22 59 Max Chilton 59.5843 0.8019 0.0477 118.662 Chevy Carlin
23 22 Simon Pagenaud 59.6806 0.8982 0.0963 118.471 Chevy Team Penske
24 77 Callum Ilott 59.9177 1.1353 0.2371 118.002 Chevy Juncos Hollinger Racing
25 4 Dalton Kellett 1:00.1986 1.4162 0.2809 117.451 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
26 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay 1:00.2699 1.4875 0.0713 117.312 Honda Andretti Autosport
27 30 Takuma Sato 1:22.2521 23.4697 21.9822 85.960 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing