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Indy 500: Former winners dominate first day of practice
Will Power led Ryan Hunter-Reay and Takuma Sato in the opening day of practice for the 105th running of the Indy 500, as seven of the nine participating former winners filled the top 12.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: May 19, 2021, 2:30 AM
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Team Penske-Chevrolet’s 2018 winner Power set a 226.470mph lap on his 35th of 57 laps around the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway to edge 2014 winner Ryan Hunter-Reay in his Andretti Autosport-Honda.
Behind them was defending and two-time winner, Takuma Sato of Rahal Letterman Lanigan-Honda.
The Dreyer & Reinbold Racing-Chevy of Sage Karam landed P4 ahead of Conor Daly in the Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevy, with 2019 winner Simon Pagenaud completing the top six.
Pato O’Ward, IndyCar’s Texas winner for Arrow McLaren SP-Chevy made it seven drivers under the 40sec barrier with a lap of 225.146mph ahead of 2008 Indy winner and reigning IndyCar champ Scott Dixon in the Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda.
Other former winners looking strong were Dixon’s teammate Tony Kanaan in 11th and Juan Pablo Montoya in the third Arrow McLaren SP-Chevy (12th).
In terms of no-tow speeds, Ed Carpenter and one of his teammates Daly were first and third for Chevy, split by Dixon’s Honda.
Daly also owned the best trap speeds at Turns 1 and 3, and the start finish line (239mph).
Colton Herta of Andretti Autosport turned the most laps of the session at 72.
Practice resumes tomorrow at 12 noon local (Eastern) time, weather allowing, although the track will be open at 11am to allow RC Enerson of Top Gun Racing to finish his Rookie Orientation Program following his mechanical issue today .
In terms of mechanical issues, it transpired that Sebastien Bourdais' fire after 27 laps of practice was indeed an engine failure.
P
No
Name
FTime
Diff
Gap
FL
Laps
FSpeed
Engine
Team
1
12
Will Power
39.7403
39.7403
0.000
35
57
226.470
Chevy
Team Penske
2
28
Ryan Hunter-Reay
39.7578
0.0175
0.0175
22
43
226.371
Honda
Andretti Autosport
3
30
Takuma Sato
39.7998
0.0595
0.0420
13
58
226.132
Honda
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
4
24
Sage Karam
39.8332
0.0929
0.0334
31
43
225.942
Chevy
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
5
47
Conor Daly
39.8865
0.1462
0.0533
35
65
225.640
Chevy
Ed Carpenter Racing
6
22
Simon Pagenaud
39.9592
0.2189
0.0727
40
64
225.230
Chevy
Team Penske
7
5
Pato O'Ward
39.9740
0.2337
0.0148
35
56
225.146
Chevy
Arrow McLaren SP
8
9
Scott Dixon
40.0021
0.2618
0.0281
8
48
224.988
Honda
Chip Ganassi Racing
9
18
Ed Jones
40.0621
0.3218
0.0600
55
58
224.651
Honda
Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan
10
8
Marcus Ericsson
40.0686
0.3283
0.0065
49
55
224.615
Honda
Chip Ganassi Racing
11
48
Tony Kanaan
40.0725
0.3322
0.0039
56
58
224.593
Honda
Chip Ganassi Racing
12
86
Juan Pablo Montoya
40.1099
0.3696
0.0374
4
44
224.384
Chevy
Arrow McLaren SP
13
16
Simona De Silvestro
40.1373
0.3970
0.0274
52
71
224.230
Chevy
Paretta Autosport
14
2
Josef Newgarden
40.1714
0.4311
0.0341
9
37
224.040
Chevy
Team Penske
15
21
Rinus VeeKay
40.2158
0.4755
0.0444
42
69
223.793
Chevy
Ed Carpenter Racing
16
29
James Hinchcliffe
40.2180
0.4777
0.0022
30
67
223.780
Honda
Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
17
7
Felix Rosenqvist
40.2246
0.4843
0.0066
28
45
223.744
Chevy
Arrow McLaren SP
18
20
Ed Carpenter
40.2377
0.4974
0.0131
30
57
223.671
Chevy
Ed Carpenter Racing
19
98
Marco Andretti
40.2980
0.5577
0.0603
23
52
223.336
Honda
Andretti Herta-Haupert w/Marco & Curb-Agajanian
20
26
Colton Herta
40.2993
0.5590
0.0013
6
72
223.329
Honda
Andretti Autosport
21
06
Helio Castroneves
40.3480
0.6077
0.0487
26
44
223.059
Honda
Meyer Shank Racing
22
27
Alexander Rossi
40.3581
0.6178
0.0101
31
63
223.004
Honda
Andretti Autosport
23
10
Alex Palou
40.3792
0.6389
0.0211
12
53
222.887
Honda
Chip Ganassi Racing
24
11
Charlie Kimball
40.3938
0.6535
0.0146
25
36
222.806
Chevy
AJ Foyt Enterprises
25
3
Scott McLaughlin
40.4133
0.6730
0.0195
13
50
222.699
Chevy
Team Penske
26
15
Graham Rahal
40.4344
0.6941
0.0211
44
63
222.583
Honda
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
27
4
Dalton Kellett
40.4729
0.7326
0.0385
52
59
222.371
Chevy
AJ Foyt Enterprises
28
1
JR Hildebrand
40.4928
0.7525
0.0199
4
22
222.262
Chevy
AJ Foyt Enterprises
29
60
Jack Harvey
40.5199
0.7796
0.0271
34
56
222.113
Honda
Meyer Shank Racing
30
59
Max Chilton
40.5606
0.8203
0.0407
55
56
221.890
Chevy
Carlin
31
51
Pietro Fittipaldi
40.7657
1.0254
0.2051
46
52
220.774
Honda
Dale Coyne Racing w/Rick Ware Racing
32
45
Santino Ferrucci
40.7761
1.0358
0.0104
4
24
220.718
Honda
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
33
14
Sebastien Bourdais
40.8837
1.1434
0.1076
7
23
220.137
Chevy
AJ Foyt Enterprises
34
25
Stefan Wilson
41.1762
1.4359
0.2925
20
25
218.573
Honda
Andretti Autosport
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