IndyCar News: Herta tops opening GP practice at Indy

Colton Herta turned a lap of 1m09.2863s with 3 minutes to go to top opening practice for the Sonsio GP on the IMS Road Course in his #26 Andretti Autosport Honda

–by Mark Cipolloni–

Herta was just 0.0850s faster than Augustin Canapino’s Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevy.

Two other Chevy-powered cars were 3rd and 4th – Will Power was third in his #12 Penske Chevy, 0.0217s behind, while Rinus Veekay was 0.0264s behind in 4th.

Herta’s Andretti teammate Marcus Armstrong rounded out the top-5 in his #28 Honda.

Pos	No	Name	Time	Behind	Gap	FL	Laps	Speed	Engine	Team
1	26	Colton Herta	1:09.2863	0.000s	0.000s	13	15	126.726	Honda	Andretti Autosport w/Curb‑Agajanian
2	78	Agustin Canapino	1:09.3713	0.0850	0.0850	19	19	126.571	Chevy	Juncos Hollinger Racing
3	12	Will Power	1:09.3930	0.1067	0.0217	18	21	126.531	Chevy	Team Penske
4	21	Rinus VeeKay	1:09.4194	0.1331	0.0264	12	14	126.483	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
5	28	Marcus Ericsson	1:09.4686	0.1823	0.0492	21	22	126.394	Honda	Andretti Autosport
6	45	Christian Lundgaard	1:09.4785	0.1922	0.0099	21	23	126.376	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
7	3	Scott McLaughlin	1:09.5070	0.2207	0.0285	17	20	126.324	Chevy	Team Penske
8	60	Felix Rosenqvist	1:09.5771	0.2908	0.0701	16	17	126.197	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
9	7	Alexander Rossi	1:09.6616	0.3753	0.0845	16	16	126.044	Chevy	Arrow McLaren
10	14	Santino Ferrucci	1:09.6643	0.3780	0.0027	22	22	126.039	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
11	5	Pato O’Ward	1:09.7199	0.4336	0.0556	16	21	125.938	Chevy	Arrow McLaren
12	9	Scott Dixon	1:09.7291	0.4428	0.0092	19	21	125.922	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
13	27	Kyle Kirkwood	1:09.7987	0.5124	0.0696	16	19	125.796	Honda	Andretti Autosport
14	2	Josef Newgarden	1:09.8152	0.5289	0.0165	4	20	125.766	Chevy	Team Penske
15	66	Tom Blomqvist	1:09.8245	0.5382	0.0093	21	23	125.750	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
16	20	Christian Rasmussen	1:09.8556	0.5693	0.0311	26	30	125.694	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
17	10	Alex Palou	1:09.9362	0.6499	0.0806	9	20	125.549	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
18	30	Pietro Fittipaldi	1:09.9626	0.6763	0.0264	21	22	125.501	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
19	6	Theo Pourchaire	1:10.0621	0.7758	0.0995	23	31	125.323	Chevy	Arrow McLaren
20	18	Jack Harvey	1:10.1691	0.8828	0.1070	22	23	125.132	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing
21	77	Romain Grosjean	1:10.2688	0.9825	0.0997	17	19	124.954	Chevy	Juncos Hollinger Racing
22	4	Kyffin Simpson	1:10.2754	0.9891	0.0066	15	24	124.943	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
23	8	Linus Lundqvist	1:10.3219	1.0356	0.0465	5	24	124.860	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
24	51	Luca Ghiotto	1:10.5536	1.2673	0.2317	31	32	124.450	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing
25	15	Graham Rahal	1:10.7825	1.4962	0.2289	3	3	124.048	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
26	41	Sting Ray Robb	1:11.3006	2.0143	0.5181	19	21	123.146	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
27	11	Marcus Armstrong	6:09.5721	5:00.2858	4:58.2715	2	2	23.758	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing