Sage Karam topped the speed chart in the eighth and penultimate practice session for the 102nd running of the Indy 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing’s Sage Karam topped the speed chart in the eighth practice session for the 102nd running of the Indy 500, the sixth race of the 2018 IndyCar season, on Monday afternoon after he qualified in the 24th position on the grid in yesterday’s qualifying session.
Karam did so by recording a lap at 226.461 miles per hour (39.7419 seconds) around the four-turn, 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval in Speedway, Indiana. That lap was more than one mile an hour faster than anyone else’s fastest lap of the practice session.
Karam led a 1-2 Chevrolet sweep of the practice session in his #24 Chevrolet, as A.J. Foyt Enterprises’ Tony Kanaan finished in second place in his #14 Chevrolet. The highest finishing Honda driver in the session was Andretti Autosport’s Ryan Hunter-Reay, who finished in third in his #28 Honda.
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Chevrolet drivers took five of the top seven positions in the practice session, while Honda drivers took seven of the top 12 positions in what was a fairly even session from top to bottom. Race polesitter Ed Carpenter finished in 14th place as the seventh fastest Chevrolet driver in his #20 Chevrolet.
Without a tow, Juncos Racing rookie Kyle Kaiser ended up recording the fastest lap of the practice session at 221.107 miles per hour (40.7043 seconds) in his #32 Chevrolet. He led a 1-2-3 Chevrolet sweep of the no tow chart, as Carpenter in his #20 Chevrolet and Carlin Motorsports’s Charlie Kimball in his #23 Chevrolet finished in second and third place, respectively.
Andretti Herta Autosport’s Marco Andretti, who finished the practice session in eighth place overall, was the fastest Honda driver on the no tow speed chart in the session. He finished in fourth in his #98 Honda.
Here are the full practice results from the eighth practice session for the 2018 Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
| Rank | Driver | Car, Team, Engine |
| 1 | Sage Karam | #24, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, Chevrolet |
| 2 | Tony Kanaan | #14, A.J. Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet |
| 3 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | #28, Andretti Autosport, Honda |
| 4 | Charlie Kimball | #23, Carlin Motorsport, Chevrolet |
| 5 | Alexander Rossi | #27, Andretti Autosport, Honda |
| 6 | Will Power | #12, Team Penske, Chevrolet |
| 7 | Helio Castroneves | #3, Team Penske, Chevrolet |
| 8 | Marco Andretti | #98, Andretti Herta Autosport, Honda |
| 9 | Zachary Claman DeMelo | #19, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda |
| 10 | Scott Dixon | #9, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda |
| 11 | Sebastien Bourdais | #18, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda |
| 12 | Stefan Wilson | #25, Andretti Autosport, Honda |
| 13 | Kyle Kaiser | #32, Juncos Racing, Chevrolet |
| 14 | Ed Carpenter | #20, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet |
| 15 | J.R. Hildebrand | #66, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, Chevrolet |
| 16 | Carlos Munoz | #29, Andretti Autosport, Honda |
| 17 | Graham Rahal | #15, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda |
| 18 | Matheus Leist | #4, A.J. Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet |
| 19 | Danica Patrick | #13, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet |
| 20 | Gabby Chaves | #88, Harding Racing, Chevrolet |
| 21 | Jack Harvey | #60, Meyer Shank Racing, Honda |
| 22 | Jay Howard | #7, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Honda |
| 23 | Takuma Sato | #30, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda |
| 24 | Zach Veach | #26, Andretti Autosport, Honda |
| 25 | Robert Wickens | #6, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Honda |
| 26 | Ed Jones | #10, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda |
| 27 | Spencer Pigot | #21, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet |
| 28 | Josef Newgarden | #1, Team Penske, Chevrolet |
| 29 | Max Chilton | #59, Carlin Motorsport, Chevrolet |
| 30 | James Davison | #33, A.J. Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet |
| 31 | Oriol Servia | #64, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda |
| 32 | Conor Daly | #17, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda |
| 33 | Simon Pagenaud | #22, Team Penske, Chevrolet |
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The next and final practice session for the 2018 Indianapolis is not set to take place until Carb Day, which is Friday, May 25. That practice session is set to take place from 11:00 a.m. ET to 12:00 p.m. ET on that date. Tune into to RaceControl and the Advance Auto Parts IndyCar Radio Network or NBC Sports Network at that time for live coverage of that session.