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IndyCar Indy RC: Dixon quickest in final practice, Newgarden penalized

Dixon lapped the 14-turn, 2.439-mile IMS road course in 1m10.9851s in the 30-minute session, which acts as the warm-up for tomorrow’s race. The session took on more importance after a remarkable qualifying session beforehand, in which title contenders Alex Palou (Ganassi) and Josef Newgarden (Penske) could only manage eighth and 19th on the grid respectively.…

IndyCar Indy RC: Dixon quickest in final practice, Newgarden penalized

Dixon lapped the 14-turn, 2.439-mile IMS road course in 1m10.9851s in the 30-minute session, which acts as the warm-up for tomorrow’s race.
The session took on more importance after a remarkable qualifying session beforehand, in which title contenders Alex Palou (Ganassi) and Josef Newgarden (Penske) could only manage eighth and 19th on the grid respectively.
Firestone has brought a harder compound this weekend than it did for May’s event here, which caused chaos for some – most notably Team Penske, with Scott McLaughlin the best of its runners in 11th (although he’ll start 10th), with Will Power in 16th.
“Basically the red tire [alternate] is a primary from another circuit,” explained Dixon.
Newgarden’s day turned even more sour when he was given a 10-minute penalty in this session for missing the driver weigh-in. He responded by going fastest with 1m11.7878s after 10 of his 20 minutes available.
Former race winner here Rinus VeeKay beat that with 1m11.4844s for Ed Carpenter Racing, before Callum Ilott set 1m11.4315s and then Palou grabbed P1 with 1m11.1365s.
Dixon – who will start 15th after also struggling in qualifying – went to the top of the timesheet with four minutes to go with 1m10.9851s, ending the session fastest ahead of Palou, McLaughlin, Illot, Kyle Kirkwood (who’ll start 13th for Andretti Autosport), VeeKay, Colton Herta (starting 11th for Andretti) and Marcus Ericsson (Ganassi – who suffered more clutch issues in this session).
Polewinner Graham Rahal was only 17th in this session.
Tomorrow’s race starts at 2:00pm ET.

Cla

Driver 
Car / Engine 
 Time 
 Delay 
 Laps 


9
Scott Dixon
Dallara/Honda
1’10.9851
 
20


10
Alex Palou
Dallara/Honda
1’11.1365
0.1514
20


3
Scott McLaughlin
Dallara/Chevrolet
1’11.3073
0.3222
16


77
Callum Ilott
Dallara/Chevrolet
1’11.4315
0.4464
21


27
Kyle Kirkwood
Dallara/Honda
1’11.4655
0.4804
17


21
R.van Kalmthout
Dallara/Chevrolet
1’11.4844
0.4993
23


26
Colton Herta
Dallara/Honda
1’11.4854
0.5003
19


8
Marcus Ericsson
Dallara/Honda
1’11.6414
0.6563
23


78
Agustín Canapino
Dallara/Chevrolet
1’11.6475
0.6624
20

10 
11
Marcus Armstrong
Dallara/Honda
1’11.6663
0.6812
23

11 
45
C.Lundgaard
Dallara/Honda
1’11.6714
0.6863
22

12 
18
David Malukas
Dallara/Honda
1’11.7032
0.7181
22

13 
7
Alexander Rossi
Dallara/Chevrolet
1’11.7497
0.7646
19

14 
2
Josef Newgarden
Dallara/Chevrolet
1’11.7878
0.8027
14

15 
06
H.Castroneves
Dallara/Honda
1’11.8001
0.8150
21

16 
14
Santino Ferrucci
Dallara/Chevrolet
1’11.8514
0.8663
19

17 
15
Graham Rahal
Dallara/Honda
1’11.8863
0.9012
23

18 
60
Linus Lundqvist
Dallara/Honda
1’11.9479
0.9628
19

19 
6
Felix Rosenqvist
Dallara/Chevrolet
1’11.9634
0.9783
20

20 
29
D.Defrancesco
Dallara/Honda
1’11.9715
0.9864
17

21 
28
Romain Grosjean
Dallara/Honda
1’12.0360
1.0509
20

22 
5
Patricio O’Ward
Dallara/Chevrolet
1’12.0747
1.0896
22

23 
12
Will Power
Dallara/Chevrolet
1’12.1495
1.1644
22

24 
55
B.Pedersen
Dallara/Chevrolet
1’12.1797
1.1946
19

25 
20
Ryan Hunter-Reay
Dallara/Chevrolet
1’12.1851
1.2000
17

26 
30
Jack Harvey
Dallara/Honda
1’12.4943
1.5092
17

27 
51
Sting Ray Robb
Dallara/Honda
1’13.0443
2.0592
18

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