Daly leads first IMS test session, Herta tops no-tow speeds

The track was lost to rain in the final half hour of the two-hour session, at a point when Daly’s 222.714mph had put him top, ahead of the 221.296mph of teammate and team owner Ed Carpenter’s 221.296mph.

Their other teammate Rinus VeeKay suffered a nasty shunt at Turn 1 on his fifth lap that resulted in a broken finger.

Scott Dixon’s Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda was third ahead of the two Arrow McLaren SP-Chevys of Felix Rosenqvist and Pato O’Ward and a second Ganassi car, that of Alex Palou. O’Ward turned the most laps of the session at 23.

Colton Herta, Alexander Rossi (both Andretti Autosport-Honda) and Will Power (Team Penske-Chevrolet) were seventh, eighth and ninth respectively in the overall standings but 1-2-3 in the laps set without the aid of a tow, ranging from 219.8 – 219.6mph.

Twenty-one cars took part in the opening session which was for veterans only. The next two hours of on-track action will be reserved for Rookie Orientation Practice and Refreshers, but the scheduling is currently undecided due to the wet track.

P	No	Name	FTime	Diff	FL	Laps	FSpeed	Engine	Team
1	47	Conor Daly	40.4106	0.000	11	18	222.714	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
2	20	Ed Carpenter	40.6695	0.2589	9	9	221.296	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
3	9	Scott Dixon	40.8024	0.3918	8	9	220.575	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
4	7	Felix Rosenqvist	40.8423	0.4317	11	16	220.360	Chevy	Arrow McLaren SP
5	5	Pato O'Ward	40.8658	0.4552	13	23	220.233	Chevy	Arrow McLaren SP
6	10	Alex Palou	40.9149	0.5043	5	13	219.969	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
7	26	Colton Herta	40.9377	0.5271	4	8	219.846	Honda	Andretti Autosport
8	27	Alexander Rossi	40.9762	0.5656	3	10	219.640	Honda	Andretti Autosport
9	12	Will Power	40.9770	0.5664	12	16	219.635	Chevy	Team Penske
10	60	Jack Harvey	40.9987	0.5881	6	6	219.519	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
11	2	Josef Newgarden	41.0002	0.5896	8	9	219.511	Chevy	Team Penske
12	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	41.0360	0.6254	4	6	219.320	Honda	Andretti Autosport
13	15	Graham Rahal	41.0413	0.6307	6	9	219.291	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
14	8	Marcus Ericsson	41.0530	0.6424	6	18	219.229	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
15	48	Tony Kanaan	41.0628	0.6522	7	11	219.176	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
16	30	Takuma Sato	41.2103	0.7997	5	13	218.392	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
17	98	Marco Andretti	41.2250	0.8144	4	5	218.314	Honda	Andretti Herta-Haupert w/Marco & Curb-Agajanian
18	22	Simon Pagenaud	41.3419	0.9313	4	15	217.697	Chevy	Team Penske
19	21	Rinus VeeKay	41.3718	0.9612	4	4	217.539	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
20	3	Scott McLaughlin	41.4270	1.0164	19	21	217.250	Chevy	Team Penske
21	45	Santino Ferrucci	42.0437	1.6331	7	7	214.063	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
22	18	Ed Jones	10:19.170	578.7598	1	1	14.536	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing
23	51	Pietro Fittipaldi	11:10.858	630.4477	1	1	13.416	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing w/Rick Ware Racing
24	24	Sage Karam	No Time	---	1	1	---	Chevy	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
25	16	Simona De Silvestro	No Time	---	--	---	---	Chevy	Paretta Autosport
26	4	Dalton Kellet	No Time	---	--	---	---	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
27	14	Sebastien Bourdais	No Time	---	--	---	---	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
28	06	Helio Castroneves	No Time	---	--	---	---	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
29	86	Juan Pablo Montoya	No Time	---	--	---	---	Chevy	Arrow McLaren SP
30	29	James Hinchcliffe	No Time	---	--	---	---	Honda	Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
31	52	Cody Ware	No Time	---	--	---	---	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing w/Rick Ware Racing

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Series	IndyCar
Event	Indy April Testing
Author	David Malsher-Lopez

Daly leads first IMS test session, Herta tops no-tow speeds

Conor Daly led the opening Indy 500 test session, some consolation for the Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet team that saw his teammate Rinus VeeKay hit the wall.

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