Road America IndyCar: Rossi beats Penskes to top spot in FP2

Rossi was the first driver to crack the 140mph barrier with a guts ’n’ glory run that took in a few curbs, a lot of grass and several violent steering inputs. The result was a tour of the 4.014-mile track that took just 1min43.1206sec, an average speed of 140.131mph.

That was 0.2883sec clear of Power’s best time that eclipsed Newgarden by just 0.0669sec; the pair were the other way around on the primary compound, 0.006sec apart.

Colton Herta was fourth fastest for Harding Steinbrenner Racing, just 0.0049 ahead of fellow rookie Felix Rosenqvist in the faster of the two Chip Ganassi Racing-Hondas, while Graham Rahal was the fastest Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing entry.

Patricio O’Ward again starred with P9 for Carlin Racing-Chevy, as Marco Andretti made the top 10, albeit 0.95sec off Rossi’s top time.

Simon Pagenaud was only 15^th in the third Penske, just ahead of the two AJ Foyt Racing-Chevrolets.

Cla	Driver	Team	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	Mph
1	Alexander Rossi	Andretti Autosport	11	1'43.1206			140.131
2	Will Power	Team Penske	12	1'43.4089	0.2883	0.2883	139.740
3	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	15	1'43.4758	0.3552	0.0669	139.650
4	Colton Herta	Harding Racing	11	1'43.7415	0.6209	0.2657	139.292
5	Felix Rosenqvist	Chip Ganassi Racing	16	1'43.7464	0.6258	0.0049	139.286
6	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	12	1'43.9772	0.8566	0.2308	138.977
7	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	8	1'44.0136	0.8930	0.0364	138.928
8	James Hinchcliffe	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	14	1'44.0423	0.9217	0.0287	138.890
9	Patricio O'Ward	Carlin	12	1'44.0578	0.9372	0.0155	138.869
10	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	10	1'44.0731	0.9525	0.0153	138.849
11	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	14	1'44.1659	1.0453	0.0928	138.725
12	Zach Veach	Andretti Autosport	12	1'44.2018	1.0812	0.0359	138.677
13	Spencer Pigot	Ed Carpenter Racing	12	1'44.2095	1.0889	0.0077	138.667
14	Sébastien Bourdais	Dale Coyne Racing	10	1'44.2436	1.1230	0.0341	138.621
15	Simon Pagenaud	Team Penske	12	1'44.4942	1.3736	0.2506	138.289
16	Matheus Leist	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	12	1'44.5861	1.4655	0.0919	138.168
17	Tony Kanaan	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	13	1'44.6051	1.4845	0.0190	138.142
18	Takuma Sato	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	11	1'44.6141	1.4935	0.0090	138.131
19	Ed Jones	Ed Carpenter Racing	8	1'44.6600	1.5394	0.0459	138.070
20	Santino Ferrucci	Dale Coyne Racing	12	1'44.6992	1.5786	0.0392	138.018
21	Max Chilton	Carlin	14	1'44.9824	1.8618	0.2832	137.646
22	Marcus Ericsson	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	12	1'45.0633	1.9427	0.0809	137.540
23	Jack Harvey	Meyer Shank Racing with Arrow SPM	14	1'45.2417	2.1211	0.1784	137.307
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