IndyCar GP Indy: VeeKay heads Ganassi pair in warm-up

Most runners ran only primary tires, practicing their fuel save and using the push-to-pass boost which increases turbo pressure from 1.5- to 1.65-bar on road courses.

VeeKay, who will start from seventh, lapped the 14-turn 2.439-mile course in 70.5598sec, an average of 124.439mph, to just shade fellow sophomore Palou who will roll off fourth this afternoon.

Palou’s teammate Dixon will start only 16^th but appears to have the pace to fight through to a podium finish, as he did from a similarly poor grid position here in 2018.

Front-row starter Josef Newgarden was fourth ahead of Ryan Hunter-Reay, the lead Andretti Autosport-Honda, and his own Team Penske-Chevrolet teammate Simon Pagenaud.

Surprise pole-winner Romain Grosjean was only 20^th and, like Palou, survived a minor off-track excursion in his Dale Coyne Racing with RWR-Honda.

The race begins at 2.40pm local (Eastern) time.

P	Name	FTime	Diff	FL	Laps	LapTime	FSpeed	Engine	Tire	Team
1	Rinus VeeKay	1:10.5598	1:10.5598	14	21	1:23.7056	124.439	Chevy	P	Ed Carpenter Racing
2	Alex Palou	1:10.5924	0.0326	8	19	1:12.0267	124.382	Honda	P	Chip Ganassi Racing
3	Scott Dixon	1:10.6617	0.1019	13	15	1:10.9527	124.260	Honda	P	Chip Ganassi Racing
4	Josef Newgarden	1:10.8277	0.2679	11	13	1:24.0263	123.968	Chevy	P	Team Penske
5	Ed Jones	1:10.8735	0.3137	20	20	1:10.8735	123.888	Honda	P	Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan
6	Ryan Hunter-Reay	1:10.8994	0.3396	7	15	1:12.1349	123.843	Honda	P	Andretti Autosport
7	Simon Pagenaud	1:11.0189	0.4591	22	22	1:11.0189	123.635	Chevy	P	Team Penske
8	Conor Daly	1:11.0350	0.4752	6	21	1:11.5321	123.607	Chevy	P	Ed Carpenter Racing
9	Jack Harvey	1:11.0623	0.5025	7	17	1:12.4224	123.559	Honda	P	Meyer Shank Racing
10	Graham Rahal	1:11.1892	0.6294	16	19	1:11.4918	123.339	Honda	P	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
11	Alexander Rossi	1:11.2107	0.6509	8	17	1:11.7176	123.302	Honda	P	Andretti Autosport
12	Takuma Sato	1:11.3163	0.7565	16	18	1:11.3942	123.119	Honda	P	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
13	James Hinchcliffe	1:11.4120	0.8522	16	19	1:13.3268	122.954	Honda	P	Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
14	Will Power	1:11.4197	0.8599	10	22	1:12.6144	122.941	Chevy	P	Team Penske
15	Marcus Ericsson	1:11.4244	0.8646	10	20	1:12.5647	122.933	Honda	P	Chip Ganassi Racing
16	Scott McLaughlin	1:11.4300	0.8702	19	22	1:11.8950	122.923	Chevy	P	Team Penske
17	Pato O'Ward	1:11.5267	0.9669	6	22	1:12.5589	122.757	Chevy	P	Arrow McLaren SP
18	Colton Herta	1:11.5998	1.0400	6	16	1:27.6523	122.632	Honda	P	Andretti Autosport
19	Felix Rosenqvist	1:11.6686	1.1088	19	19	1:11.6686	122.514	Chevy	P	Arrow McLaren SP
20	Romain Grosjean	1:11.7465	1.1867	8	20	1:12.0940	122.381	Honda	P	Dale Coyne Racing w/Rick Ware Racing
21	Sebastien Bourdais	1:11.7698	1.2100	8	17	1:12.5944	122.341	Chevy	P	AJ Foyt Enterprises
22	Dalton Kellett	1:12.0718	1.5120	17	20	1:12.3164	121.829	Chevy	P	AJ Foyt Enterprises
23	Juan Pablo Montoya	1:12.1909	1.6311	17	17	1:12.1909	121.628	Chevy	P	Arrow McLaren SP
24	Charlie Kimball	1:12.4186	1.8588	6	22	1:13.3892	121.245	Chevy	P	AJ Foyt Enterprises
25	Jimmie Johnson	1:12.5622	2.0024	8	19	1:13.2660	121.005	Honda	P	Chip Ganassi Racing