Rinus Veekay - Birmingham, AL - during the INDYCAR Children's of Alabama Indy Grand Prix at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, AL. (Photo by Joe Skibinski | IMS Photo)
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IndyCar News: Rinus Veekay tops Practice 2 in Alabama

Posted by AR1 staff

Rinus Veekay put his #21 Ed Carpenter racing Chevy at the top in Practice 2 for the Children’s of Alabama IndyCar Grand Prix at Barber Motorsports Park.

–by Mark Cipolloni–

Veekay led a Chevy 1-23 that saw Romain Grosjean 2nd quick, 0.0356s behind Veekay driving his #77 Juncos Hollinger Chevy, and Scott McLaughlin 3rd quick in his #3 Penske Chevy, 0.06s behind Veekay.

Two Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Hondas rounded out the top-5.

Graham Rahal was 4th quick, 0.1125s behind and just ahead of his teammate Christian Lundgaard who was 0.15s behind Veekay.

1-second separated the top-20 spec IndyCars.

Practice 2 Results

Pos No Name Time Behind Gap FL Laps Speed Engine Team
1 21 Rinus VeeKay 1m06.5463s 0.000s 0.000s 4 18 124.425 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
2 77 Romain Grosjean 1m06.5819s s.0356 0.0356 13 23 124.358 Chevy Juncos Hollinger Racing
3 3 Scott McLaughlin 1m06.6099s 0.0636 0.0280 18 24 124.306 Chevy Team Penske
4 15 Graham Rahal 1m06.6588s 0.1125 0.0489 7 21 124.215 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
5 45 Christian Lundgaard 1m06.6973s 0.1510 0.0385 5 19 124.143 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
6 5 Pato O’Ward 1m06.7528s 0.2065 0.0555 11 21 124.040 Chevy Arrow McLaren
7 12 Will Power 1m06.7736s 0.2273 0.0208 18 23 124.001 Chevy Team Penske
8 10 Alex Palou 1m06.7776s 0.2313 0.0040 21 26 123.994 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
9 2 Josef Newgarden 1m06.8082s 0.2619 0.0306 7 17 123.937 Chevy Team Penske
10 11 Marcus Armstrong 1m06.8590s 0.3127 0.0508 18 24 123.843 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
11 7 Alexander Rossi 1m06.8634s 0.3171 0.0044 5 16 123.835 Chevy Arrow McLaren
12 9 Scott Dixon 1m06.9763s 0.4300 0.1129 14 21 123.626 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
13 78 Agustin Canapino 1m06.9977s 0.4514 0.0214 20 25 123.586 Chevy Juncos Hollinger Racing
14 26 Colton Herta 1m07.0557s 0.5094 0.0580 18 24 123.479 Honda Andretti Autosport w/Curb Agajanian
15 20 Christian Rasmussen 1m07.0712s 0.5249 0.0155 13 24 123.451 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
16 14 Santino Ferrucci 1m07.0893s 0.5430 0.0181 5 18 123.418 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
17 28 Marcus Ericsson 1m07.0927s 0.5464 0.0034 14 26 123.411 Honda Andretti Autosport
18 27 Kyle Kirkwood 1m07.1810s 0.6347 0.0883 12 22 123.249 Honda Andretti Autosport
19 66 Tom Blomqvist 1m07.2517s 0.7054 0.0707 13 21 123.120 Honda Meyer Shank Racing
20 8 Linus Lundqvist 1m07.2799s 0.7336 0.0282 24 31 123.068 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
21 18 Jack Harvey 1m07.5641s 1.0178 0.2842 12 25 122.550 Honda Dale Coyne Racing
22 4 Kyffin Simpson 1m07.5755s 1.0292 0.0114 10 26 122.530 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
23 6 Theo Pourchaire 1m07.6949s 1.1486 0.1194 9 25 122.313 Chevy Arrow McLaren
24 51 Luca Ghiotto 1m07.7358s 1.1895 0.0409 13 27 122.240 Honda Dale Coyne Racing
25 60 Felix Rosenqvist 1m07.8813s 1.3350 0.1455 5 7 121.978 Honda Meyer Shank Racing
26 41 Sting Ray Robb 1m08.3179s 1.7716 0.4366 8 22 121.198 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
27 30 Pietro Fittipaldi 1m18.4327s 11.8864 10.1148 1 1 105.568 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing