VeeKay tops test at Barber, Grosjean within one second

VeeKay lapped the 2.38-mile course in 66.518sec, 0.115sec faster than Sebastien Bourdais of AJ Foyt Racing-Chevrolet, although Bourdais held top spot without use of the push-to-pass overtake.

Graham Rahal turned a marathon 141 laps and wound up third fastest and top Honda-powered driver in the test, driving the #15 Rahal Letterman Lanigan entry.

Former Barber winner Will Power was fastest of the Team Penske-Chevrolet quartet, although a couple of hundredths slower than teammate Josef Newgarden in the morning session, while Conor Daly made it two Carpenter cars in the top five.

Scott McLaughlin, who has just one IndyCar race under his belt, was an impressive seventh fastest for Penske, while Dalton Kellett appeared to have taken a step forward in the offseason as he becomes a fulltime driver for Foyt, finishing the day within 0.7sec of his team leader Bourdais.

The 2016 Indy Lights champion Ed Jones, on his return to IndyCar after a one-year hiatus, was 10^th fastest, and just a tenth quicker than Dale Coyne Racing teammate and Formula 1 exile Romain Grosjean.

RANK	CAR NO.	DRIVER	TEAM	QUICK LAP	DIFF.	TOTAL LAPS
1	21	Rinus VeeKay	Ed Carpenter Racing	66.518		105
2	14	Sebastien Bourdais	A.J. Foyt Racing	66.633	-0.115	107
3	15	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	66.721	-0.203	141
4	12	Will Power	Team Penske	66.902	-0.384	109
5	20	Conor Daly	Ed Carpenter Racing	67.021	-0.503	94
6	2	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	67.039	-0.521	54
7	3	Scott McLaughlin	Team Penske	67.065	-0.547	104
8	22	Simon Pagenaud	Team Penske	67.166	-0.648	107
9	4	Dalton Kellett	A.J. Foyt Racing	67.238	-0.72	73
10	18	Ed Jones	Dale Coyne Racing With Vasser-Sullivan	67.388	-0.87	86
11	30	Takuma Sato	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	67.448	-0.93	111
12	51	Romain Grosjean	Dale Coyne Racing w/ Rick Ware Racing	67.478	-0.96	83