The Chip Ganassi Racing-Chevrolet’s driver’s 29th lap of 1min22.8740sec set a 146.391mph average on the 3.37-mile roadcourse, eclipsing Team Penske-Chevrolet’s top runners Helio Castroneves and Will Power by 0.15-0.2sec.

But the biggest stories came at the end of the session when both championship leader Simon Pagenaud and Tony Kanaan spun trying to improve their times on their final laps.

The Ganassi driver, who finished the session fourth fastest and 0.3sec adrift of Dixon, had a harmless spin in The Boot, not even making contact with the barrier until he tried to drive off unaided. But Pagenaud’s incident was a 140mph affair at Turn 7, the fast right-hander at the toe of The Boot.

The #22 appeared to get loose on entry, then grip up just as Pagenaud was on opposite lock, sending the car deep into the tire wall.

He was classified 11^th, having focused on raceday setups for the majority of the session, and then being blocked on one of his flying laps. Nonetheless, Juan Pablo Montoya made it three Penskes in the top five.

In what was a session largely dominated by Chevrolet, Jack Hawksworth gave the AJ Foyt Racing-Honda team a welcome fillip by clocking sixth fastest on 1min23.4463sec, just ahead of fellow Honda driver, Graham Rahal.

Josef Newgarden was eighth fastest for Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet, despite stopping on track mid-session after picking up a left-rear puncture.

Andretti Autosport’s struggles continued, even aside from the generic Honda deficit, Alexander Rossi leading the way in 15^th and Marco Andretti at the very bottom of the timesheets.

Conor Daly, who crashed this morning, completed 26 laps this afternoon and put three tenths of a second between himself and rookie teammate RC Enerson in the Dale Coyne Racing entries.

Watkins Glen - Practice 2

	N°	Driver	Team (Engine)	Time/deficit
1	9	Scott Dixon	Ganassi (C)	1:22.8740
2	3	Helio Castroneves	Penske (C)	0.1587
3	12	Will Power	Penske (C)	0.1977
4	10	Tony Kanaan	Ganassi (C)	0.2952
5	2	Juan Pablo Montoya	Penske (C)	0.4906
6	41	Jack Hawksworth	Foyt (H)	0.5723
7	15	Graham Rahal	Rahal (H)	0.7223
8	21	Josef Newgarden	Carpenter (C)	0.7539
9	11	Sébastien Bourdais	KVSH (C)	0.7842
10	8	Max Chilton	Ganassi (C)	0.8367
11	22	Simon Pagenaud	Penske (C)	0.8730
12	14	Takuma Sato	Foyt (H)	0.9154
13	20	Spencer Pigot	Carpenter (C)	0.9864
14	7	Mikhail Aleshin	Schmidt (H)	1.0803
15	98	Alexander Rossi	Andretti-Herta (H)	1.1923
16	26	Carlos Muñoz	Andretti (H)	1.3027
17	88	Conor Daly	Coyne (H)	1.3885
18	83	Charlie Kimball	Ganassi (C)	1.4050
19	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti (H)	1.4460
20	19	R.C. Enerson	Coyne (H)	1.7100
21	5	James Hinchcliffe	Schmidt (H)	2.0163
22	27	Marco Andretti	Andretti (H)	2.0468