IndyCar: Eriksson Fastest in Friday Morning Session at Thermal Club

Marcus Ericsson, Chip Ganassi Racing no 8 entry, set the fastest lap of the Friday morning test session. Photo above courtesy of Penske Entertainment/James Black.

Christian Lundgaard followed second in his no 45 Rahal Letterman Lanigan entry.

Kyle Kirkwood rounded out the top three in his no 27Andretti Autosport Honda.

Pato O’Ward spun his Arrow McLaren no 6 car in Turn 15 during the start of the session and escaped with no damage to his car.

Devlin DeFrancesco was off course in his Andretti Autosport no 29 and caused a red flag.

All the cars having incidents have been damage free, which is great since we have Armco barriers and no SAFER Barriers.

We have one more session to go from 1:00 to 4:30 PST.

Lucille Dust reporting live from the Thermal Club

Session 3 Results

Pos	No	Name	Time	Diff	Gap	Laps	Speed	Engine	Team
1	8	Marcus Ericsson	1:38.4223	0.000s	0.000s	16	112.182	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
2	45	Christian Lundgaard	1:38.5682	0.1459	0.1459	29	112.016	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
3	27	Kyle Kirkwood	1:38.7885	0.3662	0.2203	36	111.766	Honda	Andretti Autosport
4	12	Will Power	1:38.8702	0.4479	0.0817	24	111.674	Chevy	Team Penske
5	3	Scott McLaughlin	1:38.9052	0.4829	0.0350	34	111.634	Chevy	Team Penske
6	6	Felix Rosenqvist	1:38.9410	0.5187	0.0358	30	111.594	Chevy	Arrow McLaren
7	9	Scott Dixon	1:38.9762	0.5539	0.0352	29	111.554	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
8	10	Alex Palou	1:38.9872	0.5649	0.0110	24	111.542	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
9	77	Callum Ilott	1:39.0254	0.6031	0.0382	21	111.499	Chevy	Juncos Hollinger Racing
10	2	Josef Newgarden	1:39.0301	0.6078	0.0047	29	111.493	Chevy	Team Penske
11	7	Alexander Rossi	1:39.0913	0.6690	0.0612	38	111.425	Chevy	Arrow McLaren
12	28	Romain Grosjean	1:39.0944	0.6721	0.0031	23	111.421	Honda	Andretti Autosport
13	5	Pato O’Ward	1:39.1486	0.7263	0.0542	24	111.360	Chevy	Arrow McLaren
14	26	Colton Herta	1:39.2164	0.7941	0.0678	29	111.284	Honda	Andretti Autosport w/Curb-Agajanian
15	60	Simon Pagenaud	1:39.3034	0.8811	0.0870	27	111.187	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
16	11	Marcus Armstrong	1:39.3185	0.8962	0.0151	31	111.170	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
17	06	Helio Castroneves	1:39.3803	0.9580	0.0618	23	111.100	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
18	18	David Malukas	1:39.3834	0.9611	0.0031	34	111.097	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing with HMD
19	29	Devlin DeFrancesco	1:39.5308	1.1085	0.1474	24	110.932	Honda	Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
20	30	Jack Harvey	1:39.6960	1.2737	0.1652	27	110.749	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
21	21	Rinus VeeKay	1:39.8912	1.4689	0.1952	38	110.532	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
22	14	Santino Ferrucci	1:39.9366	1.5143	0.0454	16	110.482	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
23	78	Agustin Canapino	1:39.9583	1.5360	0.0217	24	110.458	Chevy	Juncos Holling Racing
24	15	Graham Rahal	1:40.1125	1.6902	0.1542	31	110.288	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
25	20	Conor Daly	1:40.1192	1.6969	0.0067	28	110.281	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
26	55	Benjamin Pedersen	1:40.3709	1.9486	0.2517	28	110.004	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
27	51	Sting Ray Robb	1:40.4460	2.0237	0.0751	32	109.922	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR