IndyCar: O’Ward tops Practice 2 ahead of GMR GP qualifying

Pato O’Ward turned the fastest lap on Firestone soft tires to top Practice 2 for the NTT IndyCar GMR Grand Prix on the IMS Road Course.

O’Ward’s time of 1m09.7839s on a hot sunny afternoon was 0.0298s faster than Ganassi Honda driver Alex Palou in 2nd and 0.058s faster than the Andretti Honda of Colton Herta.

Rinus Veekay put the ECR Chevy in 4th, 0.14s off the pace while rookie Christian Lundgaard was the fast Rahal Honda driver to round out the top-5.

Romain Grosjean managed 6th in his #28 Andretti Honda while his two other teammates Alexander Rossi was only 19th and Devlin DeFrancesco was only 22nd.

Whereas the opening practice was relatively incident free, this 2nd session saw a number of drivers go off course, with Jimmie Johnson dead last after a big spin into the pea gravel

Qualifying Groups (4:00pm ET)

Group 1

10 Palou, Alex

21 VeeKay, Rinus

28 Grosjean, Romain

7 Rosenqvist, Felix

12 Power, Will

45 Harvey, Jack

51 Sato, Takuma

2 Newgarden, Josef

06 Castroneves, Helio

9 Dixon, Scott

29 DeFrancesco, Devlin

6 Montoya, Juan Pablo

11 Calderon, Tatiana

Group 2

5 O’Ward, Pato

26 Herta, Colton

30 Lundgaard, Christian

20 Daly, Conor

60 Pagenaud, Simon

3 McLaughlin, Scott

8 Ericsson, Marcus

15 Rahal, Graham

27 Rossi, Alexander

77 Ilott, Callum

14 Kirkwood, Kyle

18 Malukas, David

4 Kellett, Dalton

48 Johnson, Jimmie

Practice 2 Results