Ryan Hunter-Reay heads Long Beach IndyCar warm-up for Andretti Autosport
Ryan Hunter-Reay set the quickest time in an incident-filled final warm-up session ahead of Sunday's IndyCar race at Long Beach
The Andretti Autosport driver topped the charts with a 1m09.4724s lap, 0.9s better than his closest rival Scott Dixon (Ganassi). But four red flags punctuated the session, the final being caused by polesitter Dario Franchitti (Ganassi) becoming the latest victim of the barrier at Turn 5.
Dragon Racing's Katherine Legge hit the tyres at the same spot a few minutes earlier, also bringing out a red flag. Four cars have now been caught out at the same spot so far this weekend. The other stoppages were triggered by Sarah Fisher Hartman driver Josef Newgarden, who shot down an escape road, and Takuma Sato, who spun to a halt at the exit of Turn 8 in his Rahal Letterman Lanigan car.
Rubens Barrichello (KV Racing) was third-fastest ahead of Penske's Will Power, KV's EJ Viso and Penske's Ryan Briscoe.
Pos Driver Team/Car Time Gap 1. Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti DW12-Chevy 1m09.4724s 2. Scott Dixon Ganassi DW12-Honda 1m10.3754s + 0.9030s 3. Rubens Barrichello KV DW12-Chevy 1m10.4945s + 1.0221s 4. Will Power Penske DW12-Chevy 1m10.5937s + 1.1213s 5. EJ Viso KV DW12-Chevy 1m10.6448s + 1.1724s 6. Ryan Briscoe Penske DW12-Chevy 1m10.7304s + 1.2580s 7. Tony Kanaan KV DW12-Chevy 1m10.7882s + 1.3158s 8. James Jakes Coyne DW12-Honda 1m10.8012s + 1.3288s 9. Charlie Kimball Ganassi DW12-Honda 1m10.8349s + 1.3625s 10. Simon Pagenaud Schmidt DW12-Honda 1m10.8492s + 1.3768s 11. Dario Franchitti Ganassi DW12-Honda 1m10.8882s + 1.4158s 12. Justin Wilson Coyne DW12-Honda 1m10.8892s + 1.4168s 13. Josef Newgarden Fisher DW12-Honda 1m11.0404s + 1.5680s 14. JR Hildebrand Panther DW12-Chevy 1m11.1277s + 1.6553s 15. Marco Andretti Andretti DW12-Chevy 1m11.2738s + 1.8014s 16. Helio Castroneves Penske DW12-Chevy 1m11.2967s + 1.8243s 17. Graham Rahal Ganassi DW12-Honda 1m11.6092s + 2.1368s 18. Mike Conway Foyt DW12-Honda 1m11.6999s + 2.2275s 19. James Hinchcliffe Andretti DW12-Chevy 1m11.7011s + 2.2287s 20. Oriol Servia Dreyer & Reinbold DW12-Lotus 1m12.4225s + 2.9501s 21. Ed Carpenter Carpenter DW12-Chevy 1m12.5132s + 3.0408s 22. Takuma Sato Rahal DW12-Honda 1m12.6491s + 3.1767s 23. Sebastien Bourdais Dragon DW12-Lotus 1m13.1743s + 3.7019s 24. Alex Tagliani BHA DW12-Lotus 1m13.3129s + 3.8405s 25. Katherine Legge Dragon DW12-Lotus 1m13.6374s + 4.1650s 26. Simona de Silvestro HVM DW12-Lotus 1m14.8725 + 5.4028s
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