IndyCar: Rossi tops Practice 2 in Detroit

Andretti Autosport’s Alexander Rossi, a new contract in hand with Arrow McLaren next year, turned the fastest lap of 1m15.8101s in his #27 Honda in a red-flagged interrupted practice 2 for the Detroit GP.

Simon Pagenaud was 0.07s behind in his Meyer Shank Racing Honda

Josef Newgarden was the fastest Chevy in third, 0.1s back

Helio Castroneves and rookie David Malukas rounded out the top-5.

The red flag flew 5 times as driver after driver ran out of talent and either crashed or spun.

Practice 2 Results

Pos No Name Time Diff Gap Laps Speed Engine Team
1 27 Alexander Rossi 1:15.8101 0.000s 0.000s 17 111.595 Honda Andretti Autosport
2 60 Simon Pagenaud 1:15.8803 0.0702 0.0702 16 111.491 Honda Meyer Shank Racing
3 2 Josef Newgarden 1:15.9118 0.1017 0.0315 20 111.445 Chevy Team Penske
4 06 Helio Castroneves 1:16.0412 0.2311 0.1294 19 111.255 Honda Meyer Shank Racing
5 18 David Malukas 1:16.1180 0.3079 0.0768 17 111.143 Honda Dale Coyne Racing with HMD
6 3 Scott McLaughlin 1:16.2550 0.4449 0.1370 23 110.944 Chevy Team Penske
7 7 Felix Rosenqvist 1:16.2628 0.4527 0.0078 15 110.932 Chevy Arrow McLaren SP
8 29 Devlin DeFrancesco 1:16.3353 0.5252 0.0725 17 110.827 Honda Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
9 10 Alex Palou 1:16.3849 0.5748 0.0496 23 110.755 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
10 28 Romain Grosjean 1:16.3981 0.5880 0.0132 16 110.736 Honda Andretti Autosport
11 51 Takuma Sato 1:16.4348 0.6247 0.0367 19 110.683 Honda Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR
12 5 Pato O’Ward 1:16.9952 1.1851 0.5604 16 109.877 Chevy Arrow McLaren SP
13 9 Scott Dixon 1:17.1030 1.2929 0.1078 17 109.723 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
14 8 Marcus Ericsson 1:17.1301 1.3200 0.0271 19 109.685 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
15 21 Rinus VeeKay 1:17.3610 1.5509 0.2309 14 109.357 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
16 77 Santino Ferrucci 1:17.3722 1.5621 0.0112 17 109.342 Chevy Juncos Hollinger Racing
17 26 Colton Herta 1:17.4381 1.6280 0.0659 16 109.249 Honda Andretti Autosport w/Curb-Agajanian
18 30 Christian Lundgaard 1:17.7231 1.9130 0.2850 16 108.848 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
19 12 Will Power 1:18.0033 2.1932 0.2802 18 108.457 Chevy Team Penske
20 15 Graham Rahal 1:18.3290 2.5189 0.3257 14 108.006 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
21 48 Jimmie Johnson 1:19.1975 3.3874 0.8685 15 106.822 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
22 20 Conor Daly 1:19.2023 3.3922 0.0048 19 106.815 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
23 45 Jack Harvey 1:19.2203 3.4102 0.0180 21 106.791 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
24 4 Dalton Kellett 1:19.4241 3.6140 0.2038 11 106.517 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
25 11 Tatiana Calderon 1:19.5003 3.6902 0.0762 18 106.415 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
26 14 Kyle Kirkwood No Time Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises