IndyCar: Colton Herta tops second 2019 Indianapolis practice session

Colton Herta topped the speed chart in the second and final practice session for the fifth race of the 2019 IndyCar season, the IndyCar Grand Prix, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.

Harding Steinbrenner Racing rookie Colton Herta topped the speed chart in the second and final practice session for the fifth race on the 17-race 2019 IndyCar schedule, the IndyCar Grand Prix, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.

Herta topped the speed chart in the practice session by recording a top lap time of 68.0393 seconds (129.049 miles per hour) around the 13-turn, 2.439-mile (-kilometer) Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course in Speedway, Indiana in his #88 Honda.

Chip Ganassi Racing rookie Felix Rosenqvist finished in second place on the speed chart in this practice session his #10 Honda, giving Honda drivers, Honda rookies to be more specific, a top two sweep. He finished ahead of Ed Carpenter Racing’s Spencer Pigot, the highest finishing Chevrolet driver of this session, in third in his #21 Chevrolet.

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Dale Coyne Racing’s Sebastien Bourdais and Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon rounded out the top five on the speed chart in this practice session by finishing in fourth and fifth place in their #18 Honda and #9 Honda, respectively.

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s Takuma Sato, Andretti Autosport’s Ryan Hunter-Reay, Meyer Shank Racing’s Jack Harvey and Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports rookie Marcus Ericsson rounded out the top nine on the speed chart in this practice session by finishing in sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth place in their #30 Honda, #28 Honda, #60 Honda and #7 Honda, respectively, giving Honda drivers eight of the top nine positions.

Ed Carpenter Racing’s Ed Jones finished in 10th place in his #20 Chevrolet. The highest finishing non-Ed Carpenter Racing Chevrolet drivers of this practice session were Team Penske teammates Josef Newgarden, Simon Pagenaud and Will Power. They finished in 14th, 15th and 16th in their #2 Chevrolet, #22 Chevrolet and #12 Chevrolet, respectively.

Qualifying for this 85-lap race is scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m. ET this afternoon. NBC Sports Network is set to broadcast it live. The morning warmup session for this race is scheduled to begin at 11:15 a.m. ET tomorrow morning. NBC Sports Gold is set to broadcast it live. The race itself is scheduled to begin at 3:40 p.m. ET tomorrow afternoon. NBC is set to broadcast it live beginning at 3:00 p.m. ET.

Here are the full practice results of the second and final practice session for the 2019 IndyCar Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.

Practice Results
1st – Colton Herta
2nd – Felix Rosenqvist
3rd – Spencer Pigot
4th – Sebastien Bourdais
5th – Scott Dixon
6th – Takuma Sato
7th – Ryan Hunter-Reay
8th – Jack Harvey
9th – Marcus Ericsson
10th – Ed Jones
11th – Santino Ferrucci
12th – Alexander Rossi
13th – Graham Rahal
14th – Josef Newgarden
15th – Simon Pagenaud
16th – Will Power
17th – James Hinchcliffe
18th – Helio Castroneves
19th – Max Chilton
20th – Marco Andretti
21st – Zach Veach
22nd – Matheus Leist
23rd – Tony Kanaan
24th – Patricio O’Ward

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Be sure not to miss the qualifying session or the morning warmup session for the IndyCar Grand Prix, the 2019 IndyCar season’s fifth race, at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and be sure not to miss the race itself.