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IndyCar: Herta tops opening Pre-Season Test Session

Lucille Dust

Colton Herta turned a lap of 1m39.9303s to edge out his Andretti Autosport Honda teammate Kyle Kirkwood in the first pre-season NTT IndyCar Series test session at the Thermal Club, in Thermal, CA.

Herta was the only driver to dip into the 1m39s bracket.

Simon Pagenaud was third in his Meyer Shank Honda to give Honda powered cars a 1-2-3.

We had two red flags during the 2 1/2 hours of green flag time.  The first is for Felix Rosenqvist, and the second is for Helio Castroneves.   Both drivers earned a five-minute penalty for causing a red condition.

Lucille Dust reporting from the Thermal Club

Session 1 Results

Pos No Name Time Diff Gap Laps Speed Engine Team
1 26 Colton Herta 1:39.9303 0.000s 0.000s 18 110.489 Honda Andretti Autosport w/Curb-Agajanian
2 27 Kyle Kirkwood 1:40.0236 0.0933 0.0933 20 110.386 Honda Andretti Autosport
3 60 Simon Pagenaud 1:40.1178 0.1875 0.0942 20 110.282 Honda Meyer Shank Racing
4 21 Rinus VeeKay 1:40.1913 0.2610 0.0735 23 110.201 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
5 2 Josef Newgarden 1:40.2062 0.2759 0.0149 24 110.185 Chevy Team Penske
6 12 Will Power 1:40.3527 0.4224 0.1465 24 110.024 Chevy Team Penske
7 28 Romain Grosjean 1:40.3810 0.4507 0.0283 10 109.993 Honda Andretti Autosport
8 11 Marcus Armstrong 1:40.5302 0.5999 0.1492 24 109.830 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
9 9 Scott Dixon 1:40.5930 0.6627 0.0628 18 109.761 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
10 30 Jack Harvey 1:40.6046 0.6743 0.0116 24 109.748 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
11 10 Alex Palou 1:40.6435 0.7132 0.0389 15 109.706 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
12 3 Scott McLaughlin 1:40.6552 0.7249 0.0117 21 109.693 Chevy Team Penske
13 18 David Malukas 1:40.9113 0.9810 0.2561 28 109.415 Honda Dale Coyne Racing with HMD
14 5 Pato O’Ward 1:40.9459 1.0156 0.0346 6 109.377 Chevy Arrow McLaren
15 6 Felix Rosenqvist 1:41.0030 1.0727 0.0571 17 109.316 Chevy Arrow McLaren
16 8 Marcus Ericsson 1:41.0369 1.1066 0.0339 11 109.279 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
17 77 Callum Ilott 1:41.1045 1.1742 0.0676 19 109.206 Chevy Juncos Hollinger Racing
18 45 Christian Lundgaard 1:41.3312 1.4009 0.2267 17 108.962 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
19 7 Alexander Rossi 1:41.5103 1.5800 0.1791 15 108.769 Chevy Arrow McLaren
20 20 Conor Daly 1:41.5225 1.5922 0.0122 18 108.756 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
21 29 Devlin DeFrancesco 1:41.6003 1.6700 0.0778 18 108.673 Honda Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
22 78 Agustin Canapino 1:42.1969 2.2666 0.5966 18 108.039 Chevy Juncos Holling Racing
23 15 Graham Rahal 1:42.2185 2.2882 0.0216 17 108.016 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
24 51 Sting Ray Robb 1:42.2770 2.3467 0.0585 32 107.954 Honda Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR
25 14 Santino Ferrucci 1:42.3688 2.4385 0.0918 13 107.857 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
26 06 Helio Castroneves 1:42.4730 2.5427 0.1042 13 107.747 Honda Meyer Shank Racing
27 55 Benjamin Pedersen 1:43.0742 3.1439 0.6012 12 107.119 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises