Mid-Ohio IndyCar: Ganassi's Dixon fastest in opening practice
Scott Dixon topped a quiet first IndyCar practice session at Mid-Ohio for Chip Ganassi Racing
Dixon set a time of 1m04.449s, with Team Penske's Will Power in second place, 0.1188 seconds slower than the reigning champion.
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Juan Pablo Montoya was third and Dixon's team-mate Tony Kanaan was fourth.
Helio Castroneves made it three Penske drivers in the top five with fifth place, ahead of James Hinchcliffe.
The best of the Honda-powered runners, Hinchcliffe engaged in a sharp exchange of words with ninth-placed Sebastien Bourdais at the end of the session.
Championship leader Simon Pagenaud only managed seventh and Josef Newgarden was eighth, just ahead of Bourdais.
Andretti Autosport's Ryan Hunter-Reay was also noticeably absent from the frontrunners and ended practice in 10th, 0.4568s off the pace set by Dixon.
Turn 2 seemed to be causing issues for many drivers with a reported oil spill in the later part of the session.
Both Power and Conor Daly experienced offs there - the latter bringing out a red flag with just 15 minutes to go, but the session was restarted.
PRACTICE RESULTS:
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Time | Gap | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Scott Dixon | Chip Ganassi Racing | Dallara/Chevrolet | 1m04.4491s | - | 23 |
2 | Will Power | Team Penske | Dallara/Chevrolet | 1m04.5679s | 0.1188s | 31 |
3 | Juan Pablo Montoya | Team Penske | Dallara/Chevrolet | 1m04.6034s | 0.1543s | 27 |
4 | Tony Kanaan | Chip Ganassi Racing | Dallara/Chevrolet | 1m04.6387s | 0.1896s | 21 |
5 | Helio Castroneves | Team Penske | Dallara/Chevrolet | 1m04.7217s | 0.2726s | 24 |
6 | James Hinchcliffe | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports | Dallara/Honda | 1m04.7559s | 0.3068s | 28 |
7 | Simon Pagenaud | Team Penske | Dallara/Chevrolet | 1m04.7712s | 0.3221s | 28 |
8 | Josef Newgarden | Ed Carpenter Racing | Dallara/Chevrolet | 1m04.8258s | 0.3767s | 27 |
9 | Sebastien Bourdais | KVSH Racing | Dallara/Chevrolet | 1m04.8662s | 0.4171s | 25 |
10 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | Andretti Autosport | Dallara/Honda | 1m04.9059s | 0.4568s | 24 |
11 | Charlie Kimball | Chip Ganassi Racing | Dallara/Chevrolet | 1m04.9208s | 0.4717s | 25 |
12 | Marco Andretti | Andretti Autosport | Dallara/Honda | 1m05.0988s | 0.6497s | 23 |
13 | Graham Rahal | Rahal Letterman Lanigan | Dallara/Honda | 1m05.1285s | 0.6794s | 25 |
14 | Carlos Munoz | Andretti Autosport | Dallara/Honda | 1m05.1752s | 0.7261s | 28 |
15 | Conor Daly | Dale Coyne Racing | Dallara/Honda | 1m05.2710s | 0.8219s | 22 |
16 | Takuma Sato | AJ Foyt Enterprises | Dallara/Honda | 1m05.2977s | 0.8486s | 23 |
17 | Mikhail Aleshin | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports | Dallara/Honda | 1m05.3099s | 0.8608s | 29 |
18 | Spencer Pigot | Ed Carpenter Racing | Dallara/Chevrolet | 1m05.3134s | 0.8643s | 25 |
19 | Jack Hawksworth | AJ Foyt Enterprises | Dallara/Honda | 1m05.5073s | 1.0582s | 25 |
20 | Max Chilton | Chip Ganassi Racing | Dallara/Chevrolet | 1m05.5526s | 1.1035s | 27 |
21 | R.C. Enerson | Dale Coyne Racing | Dallara/Honda | 1m05.5533s | 1.1042s | 31 |
22 | Alexander Rossi | Andretti Herta | Dallara/Honda | 1m05.7503s | 1.3012s | 30 |
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