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IndyCar: Herta tops Long Beach morning warmup (Update)

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The only incident in the warm-up was when Alexander Rossi and Helio Castroneves tried to claim the same real estate around the fountain area.

Castroneves was angry with Rossi after the collision left his No. 06 Dallara-Honda damaged three hours before the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach.

“He’s the one that has the mirror,” a seething Castroneves told NBC Sports reporter Kevin Lee. “He should take a look at what’s going on. It’s totally unnecessary. Totally unnecessary. It absolutely stinks. I’m pissed off about it. Anyway. I’ll come down and move on to the race, but his turn will come.

“It’s ridiculous. It’s an (expletive) warmup. It’s ridiculous. It’s absolutely insane.”

“Kind of since Portland, things have been brewing,” Rossi told NBC Sports reporter Marty Snider. “Not brewing, but he likes to jump in line when we’re all trying to get gaps and everything. It happened yesterday. It happened in Portland.

“We’re teammates (as Honda drivers). We haven’t really talked about it. Now is a good time to talk about it. But the fact that he thinks any of it is my fault is hilarious. I guess when you’re a four-time Indy 500 champion, you can have your opinion. He’s entitled to it. But he’s wrong.”

September 26, 2021 

After choking when it counted yesterday in qualifying, the Andretti Autosport team redeemed themselves when it does not count by putting three cars in the top-5 in morning warm-up ahead of the Acura GP of Long Beach starting at 3:30pm ET today.

Colton Herta, consistently the fastest driver on the Andretti team, turned the fastest lap at a 1m08.4762s, good enough to be 0.1745s faster than Scott Dixon.

Simon Pagenaud, driving like his job is on the line, was third quick for Team Penske while two of Andretti’s other cars, Ryan Hunter-Reay and Alexander Rossi, rounded out the top-5.

Warm-Up Results

Pos No Name Time Diff Gap Speed Engine Team
1 26 Colton Herta 1:08.4762 0.000s 0.000 103.464 Honda Andretti Autosport
2 9 Scott Dixon 1:08.6507 0.1745 0.1745 103.201 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
3 22 Simon Pagenaud 1:08.8029 0.3267 0.1522 102.972 Chevy Team Penske
4 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay 1:08.8612 0.3850 0.0583 102.885 Honda Andretti Autosport
5 27 Alexander Rossi 1:09.2465 0.7703 0.3853 102.313 Honda Andretti Autosport
6 12 Will Power 1:09.2799 0.8037 0.0334 102.263 Chevy Team Penske
7 60 Jack Harvey 1:09.2838 0.8076 0.0039 102.258 Honda Meyer Shank Racing
8 15 Graham Rahal 1:09.3318 0.8556 0.0480 102.187 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
9 10 Alex Palou 1:09.3364 0.8602 0.0046 102.180 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
10 51 Romain Grosjean 1:09.3802 0.9040 0.0438 102.116 Honda Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR
11 29 James Hinchcliffe 1:09.4724 0.9962 0.0922 101.980 Honda Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
12 5 Pato O’Ward 1:09.4789 1.0027 0.0065 101.971 Chevy Arrow McLaren SP
13 2 Josef Newgarden 1:09.5583 1.0821 0.0794 101.854 Chevy Team Penske
14 3 Scott McLaughlin 1:09.5869 1.1107 0.0286 101.812 Chevy Team Penske
15 48 Jimmie Johnson 1:09.6539 1.1777 0.0670 101.714 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
16 18 Ed Jones 1:09.7260 1.2498 0.0721 101.609 Honda Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan
17 30 Takuma Sato 1:09.7787 1.3025 0.0527 101.532 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
18 59 Max Chilton 1:09.7835 1.3073 0.0048 101.525 Chevy Carlin
19 7 Felix Rosenqvist 1:09.7866 1.3104 0.0031 101.521 Chevy Arrow McLaren SP
20 8 Marcus Ericsson 1:09.8017 1.3255 0.0151 101.499 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
21 14 Sebastien Bourdais 1:09.8080 1.3318 0.0063 101.490 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
22 77 Callum Ilott 1:09.9430 1.4668 0.1350 101.294 Chevy Juncos Hollinger Racing
23 21 Rinus VeeKay 1:09.9459 1.4697 0.0029 101.290 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
24 11 Charlie Kimball 1:09.9757 1.4995 0.0298 101.247 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
25 45 Oliver Askew 1:10.0134 1.5372 0.0377 101.192 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
26 20 Conor Daly 1:10.3288 1.8526 0.3154 100.738 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
27 4 Dalton Kellett 1:10.5556 2.0794 0.2268 100.414 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
28 06 Helio Castroneves 1:12.2333 3.7571 1.6777 98.082 Honda Meyer Shank Racing