Road America IndyCar: O’Ward leads Power in Second Practice Day | FormulaNASCAR

 Road America IndyCar: O’Ward leads Power in Second Practice Day | FormulaNASCAR

Pato O’Ward, who took his first IndyCar pole position at Road America two years ago, again mastered the track in second practice for tomorrow’s Sonsio Grand Prix to put Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet on top.

In cool conditions, and with no alternate-compound tires available in FP2 (they were used in yesterday’s first practice session) Conor Daly held top spot for Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet after 15mins, with a 1min46.5240sec. But then defending race-winner Alex Palou delivered a third lap in his Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda was over a second quicker, a 1min45.4062.

Romain Grosjean, who had his lap on the softer Firestones yesterday ruined by a red flag, showed he had latent pace on the primaries, too, but as he moved up to second, he was still 0.6sec off Palou’s benchmark, and he was swiftly pushed down to third by Pato O’Ward of Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet.

Yesterday’s pacesetter and 2019 Road America dominator Alexander Rossi had sat on pitlane for the first 20mins with a clutch issue. It wasn’t entirely fixed by the time the #27 rolled out for its first laps, because the Andretti Autosport crew had to get Rossi to spin up his tires in first while the car was on the jacks, and then they simply released the jack so he hit the asphalt in a cloud of tire smoke. The tactic worked, the Firestones bit and Rossi was able to head on out.

However, the problem wasn’t solved, and that initial band-aid for leaving pitlane met with disapproval from IndyCar, so the next times Rossi departed his pitbox, he was being pushed by his crew.

With just under 15mins remaining, several drivers took on fresh primaries, and Marcus Ericsson moved up to second with a 1min45.8079 to make it a Ganassi 1-2, but with 10mins remaining, Colton Herta split the pair with a 45.7.

Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden and Will Power then moved into second and third, and Power then stayed out for an extra lap and finally displaced Palou at the top of the table by a mere 0.0213sec.

Rossi’s early patience and subsequent efforts were then rewarded with third… which became fourth when Pato O’Ward delivered the fastest time of the session, a 1min45.2681sec, an average speed of 137.272mph around the 4.048-mile 14-turn track. He told Peacock livestream that the team had done a lot of good work overnight and the car was now ‘in the window’.

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Christian Lundgaard of Rahal Letterman Lanigan was fastest of the rookies, in 12th with his final lap, ahead of the two Meyer Shank Racing-Hondas.

Series returnee Simona De Silvestro was 3.2sec off the pace in the Paretta Autosport-Chevy, about 1.8sec off Ed Carpenter Racing pair Conor Daly and Rinus VeeKay, with whom Paretta has a technical partnership.

Cla

Driver

Team

Laps

Time

Gap

Mph

1

Patricio O'Ward

Arrow McLaren SP

12

1'45.2681

 

137.272

2

Will Power

Team Penske

14

1'45.3849

0.1168

137.120

3

Alex Palou

Chip Ganassi Racing

11

1'45.4062

0.1381

137.093

4

Alexander Rossi

Andretti Autosport

10

1'45.5576

0.2895

136.896

5

Josef Newgarden

Team Penske

13

1'45.5744

0.3063

136.874

6

Colton Herta

Andretti Autosport

14

1'45.7664

0.4983

136.626

7

Marcus Ericsson

Chip Ganassi Racing

12

1'45.8079

0.5398

136.572

8

Romain Grosjean

Andretti Autosport

15

1'46.0022

0.7341

136.322

9

Scott McLaughlin

Team Penske

15

1'46.0373

0.7692

136.277

10

Scott Dixon

Chip Ganassi Racing

14

1'46.0617

0.7936

136.245

11

Felix Rosenqvist

Arrow McLaren SP

14

1'46.0998

0.8317

136.196

12

Christian Lundgaard

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing

16

1'46.1046

0.8365

136.190

13

Helio Castroneves

Meyer Shank Racing

11

1'46.2389

0.9708

136.018

14

Simon Pagenaud

Meyer Shank Racing

10

1'46.2553

0.9872

135.997

15

David Malukas

Dale Coyne Racing with HMD

11

1'46.2816

1.0135

135.963

16

Callum Ilott

Juncos Hollinger Racing

13

1'46.4851

1.2170

135.703

17

Conor Daly

Ed Carpenter Racing

14

1'46.5240

1.2559

135.654

18

Devlin DeFrancesco

Andretti Autosport

12

1'46.5438

1.2757

135.629

19

Graham Rahal

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing

15

1'46.6307

1.3626

135.518

20

Rinus van Kalmthout

Ed Carpenter Racing

10

1'46.6619

1.3938

135.479

21

Jack Harvey

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing

14

1'46.8522

1.5841

135.237

22

Takuma Sato

Dale Coyne Racing

13

1'46.9109

1.6428

135.163

23

Jimmie Johnson

Chip Ganassi Racing

14

1'47.8402

2.5721

133.998

24

Dalton Kellett

A.J. Foyt Enterprises

15

1'47.9272

2.6591

133.890

25

Kyle Kirkwood

A.J. Foyt Enterprises

5

1'48.1562

2.8881

133.607

26

Tatiana Calderon

A.J. Foyt Enterprises

14

1'48.1969

2.9288

133.557

27

Simona de Silvestro

Paretta Autosport

13

1'48.4582

3.1901

133.23

 

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