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IndyCar: Palou tops Practice 2 for GMR GP

Lucille Dust

Hoping to move to Formula 1 in 2024, Alex Palou put his Chip Ganassi Racing Honda on top in practice 2 for the GMR Grand Prix Friday afternoon on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway F1 track.

Palou’s lap of 1m09.9383s was a comfortable 0.3197s faster than the RLL Honda of Christian Lundgaard who was 2nd quick in practice 1 earlier.

Fast man in the Practice 1, Pato O’Ward from Mexico, was 3rd quick in his Arrow McLaren Chevy.

F1 wanna be turned IndyCar driver, Marcus Armstrong was 4th in the #11 Ganassi Honda, while Jack Harvey rounded out the top-5 in his #30 RLL Honda.

Marcus Armstrong. Photo courtesy of Penske Entertainment

Practice 2 Results

Pos No Name Time Behind Gap FL Laps Speed Engine Team
1 10 Alex Palou 1:09.9383 0.000s 0.000s 19 21 125.545 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
2 45 Christian Lundgaard 1:10.2580 0.3197 0.3197 15 17 124.974 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
3 5 Pato O’Ward 1:10.2604 0.3221 0.0024 18 22 124.969 Chevy Arrow McLaren
4 11 Marcus Armstrong 1:10.3022 0.3639 0.0418 17 20 124.895 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
5 30 Jack Harvey 1:10.3038 0.3655 0.0016 14 15 124.892 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
6 2 Josef Newgarden 1:10.3174 0.3791 0.0136 18 18 124.868 Chevy Team Penske
7 3 Scott McLaughlin 1:10.3395 0.4012 0.0221 23 23 124.829 Chevy Team Penske
8 12 Will Power 1:10.3999 0.4616 0.0604 15 17 124.722 Chevy Team Penske
9 9 Scott Dixon 1:10.4018 0.4635 0.0019 18 21 124.718 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
10 8 Marcus Ericsson 1:10.4026 0.4643 0.0008 17 20 124.717 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
11 7 Alexander Rossi 1:10.4075 0.4692 0.0049 17 20 124.708 Chevy Arrow McLaren
12 6 Felix Rosenqvist 1:10.4167 0.4784 0.0092 4 15 124.692 Chevy Arrow McLaren
13 27 Kyle Kirkwood 1:10.4753 0.5370 0.0586 12 14 124.588 Honda Andretti Autosport
14 15 Graham Rahal 1:10.5187 0.5804 0.0434 17 19 124.512 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
15 26 Colton Herta 1:10.6510 0.7127 0.1323 16 18 124.278 Honda Andretti Autosport w/Curb-Agajanian
16 60 Simon Pagenaud 1:10.6982 0.7599 0.0472 12 17 124.196 Honda Meyer Shank Racing
17 77 Callum Ilott 1:10.7046 0.7663 0.0064 16 19 124.184 Chevy Juncos Hollinger Racing
18 21 Rinus VeeKay 1:10.7077 0.7694 0.0031 10 20 124.179 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
19 28 Romain Grosjean 1:10.7678 0.8295 0.0601 17 18 124.073 Honda Andretti Autosport
20 20 Conor Daly 1:10.8026 0.8643 0.0348 16 16 124.012 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
21 18 David Malukas 1:10.8835 0.9452 0.0809 10 20 123.871 Honda Dale Coyne Racing with HMD
22 29 Devlin DeFrancesco 1:10.9534 1.0151 0.0699 17 17 123.749 Honda Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
23 51 Sting Ray Robb 1:11.0065 1.0682 0.0531 10 19 123.656 Honda Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR
24 78 Agustin Canapino 1:11.0330 1.0947 0.0265 17 19 123.610 Chevy Juncos Holling Racing
25 14 Santino Ferrucci 1:11.1361 1.1978 0.1031 16 16 123.431 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
26 55 Benjamin Pedersen 1:11.2574 1.3191 0.1213 18 20 123.221 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
27 06 Helio Castroneves 1:11.7210 1.7827 0.4636 4 7 122.424 Honda Meyer Shank Racing