Indy 500: Ganassi, Penske lead final practice on Carb Day

Dixon got a multi-car tow to send the #9 Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda to the top of the speeds on only his sixth of 47 laps, lapping the 2.5-mile track at 228.323mph.

With every car now running its race engine, it was important for all teams to do a full systems check, and Dixon was content to then pack up 45mins before the end of the scheduled two-hour session. As things transpired, 10mins were knocked off for inclement weather.

That was over 1.2mph ahead of Team Penske-Chevrolet’s Simon Pagenaud who was a further 0.3mph ahead of teammate Josef Newgarden.

Conor Daly found his Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet was handling badly at the start of the session but jumped forward toward the end of the session.

Marco Andretti had an electrical issue at the start of the session and so he hit the track late, but his 64^th of 65 laps delivered fifth best speed, ahead of the other two Penskes.

Tony Kanaan in a second Ganassi entry was eighth ahead of defending winner Takuma Sato of Rahal Letterman Lanigan-Honda, while like fellow back-row starter Power, Sage Karam had an impressive session in the Dreyer & Reinbold Racing entry.

Colton Herta appeared to have one of the most impressive cars, able to slingshot past both Chevrolet- and Honda-powered cars out of Turn 4 to reach the yard of bricks start/finish ahead, but spent a lot of time running at the front of the pack without a tow, hence being only 28th on the speed charts.

Indianapolis 500 Carb Day practice standings

P	No	Name	FL	Laps	FSpeed	Engine	Team
1	9	Scott Dixon	6	47	228.323	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
2	22	Simon Pagenaud	57	89	227.157	Chevy	Team Penske
3	2	Josef Newgarden	88	93	226.856	Chevy	Team Penske
4	47	Conor Daly	53	70	226.399	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
5	98	Marco Andretti	64	65	226.396	Honda	Andretti Herta-Haupert w/Marco & Curb-Agajanian
6	12	Will Power	8	82	226.223	Chevy	Team Penske
7	3	Scott McLaughlin	21	66	226.192	Chevy	Team Penske
8	48	Tony Kanaan	7	48	225.929	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
9	30	Takuma Sato	65	94	225.701	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
10	24	Sage Karam	36	61	225.542	Chevy	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
11	5	Pato O'Ward	57	93	225.511	Chevy	Arrow McLaren SP
12	59	Max Chilton	84	89	225.348	Chevy	Carlin
13	27	Alexander Rossi	47	51	225.324	Honda	Andretti Autosport
14	14	Sebastien Bourdais	27	33	225.163	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
15	06	Helio Castroneves	17	62	225.161	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
16	86	Juan Pablo Montoya	33	54	225.149	Chevy	Arrow McLaren SP
17	1	JR Hildebrand	30	70	224.945	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
18	18	Ed Jones	12	71	224.910	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan
19	15	Graham Rahal	8	100	224.872	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
20	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	33	71	224.719	Honda	Andretti Autosport
21	29	James Hinchcliffe	19	92	224.546	Honda	Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
22	10	Alex Palou	58	71	224.500	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
23	8	Marcus Ericsson	61	84	224.468	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
24	7	Felix Rosenqvist	20	61	224.428	Chevy	Arrow McLaren SP
25	4	Dalton Kellett	19	54	224.051	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
26	25	Stefan Wilson	71	74	224.047	Honda	Andretti Autosport
27	45	Santino Ferrucci	11	77	223.884	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
28	26	Colton Herta	26	78	223.670	Honda	Andretti Autosport
29	60	Jack Harvey	8	76	223.664	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
30	20	Ed Carpenter	24	61	223.654	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
31	21	Rinus VeeKay	10	56	223.068	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
32	16	Simona De Silvestro	25	72	223.023	Chevy	Paretta Autosport
33	51	Pietro Fittipaldi	64	88	222.173	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing w/Rick Ware Racing