
Will Power
Team Penske’s Will Power has gone fastest in the sole Practice session for this weekend’s Iowa IndyCar double-header.
Power headed up an all-Chevrolet top three at the end of the 90-minute session, ahead of Ed Carpenter Racing’s Conor Daly and fellow Penske driver Scott McLaughlin, with Honda’s best being Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou.
Daly’s personal-best lap, a 173.239mph (278.801km/h)/18.5778s, had him quickest after the initial runs and that was still the case when a Caution was called in the 23rd minute for a track inspection.
In fact, it took until the 70th minute for that marker to be bettered, when Power laid down a 173.285mph (278.875km/h)/18.5729s lap.
Minutes later, McLaughlin, whose only previous visit to Iowa Speedway was a test last month, made it a Penske one-three with a 173.083mph (278.550km/h)/18.5946s effort.
Those laps were followed shortly by a second Caution, ostensibly for another track inspection, although it coincided with a fox running across the 0.875-mile tri-oval.
The green flag flew again with just over 10 minutes remaining, but the top three remained the same for the balance of proceedings.
Palou, however, crept up to fourth on a 172.764mph (278.037km/h)/18.6289s, edging Pato O’Ward to fifth after the McLaren SP driver had gone as quick as a 172.687mph (277.913km/h)/18.6372s.
Rounding out the top 10 were series leader Marcus Ericsson (Ganassi), Josef Newgarden (Penske), Graham Rahal (Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing), Jimmie Johnson (Ganassi), and last-start winner Scott Dixon (Ganassi).
Notables further back included Felix Rosenqvist (McLaren SP) in 12th, Colton Herta (Andretti Autosport w/ Curb-Agajanian) in 14th, Takuma Sato (Dale Coyne Racing w/ Rick Ware Racing) in 15th, Simon Pagenaud (Meyer Shank Racing) in 17th, Helio Castroneves (MSR) in 19th, and Alexander Rossi (Andretti Autosport) in 20th.
Qualifying is a two-lap format, with drivers’ respective first laps setting the grid for Race 1 of the weekend and second laps for Race 2.
Qualifying gets underway on Sunday morning at 00:30 AEST, and Race 1 at 06:06 AEST, with both of those sessions live and ad-free on Stan Sport.
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Results: Practice
Pos |
Num |
Driver |
C/E/T |
Fastest lap |
Speed (mph) |
Split 1st/prev |
Lap |
1 |
12 |
Will Power |
D/C/F |
0:18.5729 |
173.285 |
|
77/90 |
2 |
20 |
Conor Daly |
D/C/F |
0:18.5778 |
173.239 |
0.0049/0.0049 |
4/93 |
3 |
3 |
Scott McLaughlin |
D/C/F |
0:18.5946 |
173.083 |
0.0217/0.0168 |
80/103 |
4 |
10 |
Alex Palou |
D/H/F |
0:18.6289 |
172.764 |
0.0560/0.0343 |
114/119 |
5 |
5 |
Pato O’Ward |
D/C/F |
0:18.6372 |
172.687 |
0.0643/0.0083 |
53/106 |
6 |
8 |
Marcus Ericsson |
D/H/F |
0:18.7313 |
171.819 |
0.1584/0.0941 |
78/81 |
7 |
2 |
Josef Newgarden |
D/C/F |
0:18.7599 |
171.557 |
0.1870/0.0286 |
4/91 |
8 |
15 |
Graham Rahal |
D/H/F |
0:18.8242 |
170.971 |
0.2513/0.0643 |
8/84 |
9 |
48 |
Jimmie Johnson |
D/H/F |
0:18.8436 |
170.795 |
0.2707/0.0194 |
54/85 |
10 |
9 |
Scott Dixon |
D/H/F |
0:18.8476 |
170.759 |
0.2747/0.0040 |
84/90 |
11 |
21 |
Rinus VeeKay |
D/C/F |
0:18.8531 |
170.709 |
0.2802/0.0055 |
5/106 |
12 |
7 |
Felix Rosenqvist |
D/C/F |
0:18.8606 |
170.641 |
0.2877/0.0075 |
63/102 |
13 |
45 |
Jack Harvey |
D/H/F |
0:18.8918 |
170.360 |
0.3189/0.0312 |
103/114 |
14 |
26 |
Colton Herta |
D/H/F |
0:18.9071 |
170.222 |
0.3342/0.0153 |
56/81 |
15 |
51 |
Takuma Sato |
D/H/F |
0:18.9191 |
170.114 |
0.3462/0.0120 |
7/94 |
16 |
30 |
Christian Lundgaard |
D/H/F |
0:18.9276 |
170.037 |
0.3547/0.0085 |
82/89 |
17 |
60 |
Simon Pagenaud |
D/H/F |
0:18.9301 |
170.015 |
0.3572/0.0025 |
72/93 |
18 |
18 |
David Malukas |
D/H/F |
0:18.9416 |
169.912 |
0.3687/0.0115 |
79/95 |
19 |
06 |
Helio Castroneves |
D/H/F |
0:18.9487 |
169.848 |
0.3758/0.0071 |
28/92 |
20 |
27 |
Alexander Rossi |
D/H/F |
0:18.9906 |
169.473 |
0.4177/0.0419 |
54/77 |
21 |
77 |
Callum Ilott |
D/C/F |
0:19.0681 |
168.785 |
0.4952/0.0775 |
87/91 |
22 |
33 |
Ed Carpenter |
D/C/F |
0:19.0904 |
168.587 |
0.5175/0.0223 |
5/77 |
23 |
28 |
Romain Grosjean |
D/H/F |
0:19.1150 |
168.370 |
0.5421/0.0246 |
48/95 |
24 |
29 |
Devlin DeFrancesco |
D/H/F |
0:19.1753 |
167.841 |
0.6024/0.0603 |
91/93 |
25 |
4 |
Dalton Kellett |
D/C/F |
0:19.2663 |
167.048 |
0.6934/0.0910 |
90/91 |
26 |
14 |
Kyle Kirkwood |
D/C/F |
0:19.2954 |
166.796 |
0.7225/0.0291 |
53/78 |
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