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IndyCar: Ed Jones tops no-tow speed chart in first 2019 Indianapolis 500 practice

By Asher Fair

FORT WORTH, TX - JUNE 08: Ed Jones, driver of the #10 NTT Data Chip Ganassi Racing Honda, prepares to drive during practice for the Verizon IndyCar Series DXC Technology 600 at Texas Motor Speedway on June 8, 2018 in Fort Worth, Texas. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
FORT WORTH, TX - JUNE 08: Ed Jones, driver of the #10 NTT Data Chip Ganassi Racing Honda, prepares to drive during practice for the Verizon IndyCar Series DXC Technology 600 at Texas Motor Speedway on June 8, 2018 in Fort Worth, Texas. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images) /
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Ed Jones topped the no-tow speed chart in the first practice session for the 2019 IndyCar season’s sixth race, the Indianapolis 500, at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Ed Carpenter Racing Scuderia Corsa’s Ed Jones topped the no-tow speed chart in the opening practice session for the 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500, which is the sixth race on the 17-race 2019 IndyCar schedule, at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

All 35 of the drivers who participated in this practice session completed at least one lap without a tow. These 35 drivers occupied 36 positions on the no-tow speed chart.

Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports’ James Hinchcliffe completed at least one lap without a tow driving not only his #5 Honda but the #60 Honda of partial teammate Jack Harvey of Meyer Shank Racing.

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Jones topped the no-tow speed chart with a top lap time of 40.0816 seconds (224.542 miles per hour) around the four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval in Speedway, Indiana in his #63 Chevrolet, and he led a top five Chevrolet sweep of the speed chart.

Dreyer & Reinbold Racing’s J.R. Hildebrand, A.J. Foyt Enterprises’ Tony Kanaan, Carlin’s Charlie Kimball and Ed Carpenter Racing’s Ed Carpenter rounded out the top five on the no-tow speed chart in this practice session by finishing in second, third, fourth and fifth place in their #48 Chevrolet, #14 Chevrolet, #23 Chevrolet and #20 Chevrolet, respectively.

Andretti Autosport’s Alexander Rossi was the fastest Honda drivers of this practice session without a tow. He finished in sixth place in his #27 Honda.

Dale Coyne Racing’s Sebastien Bourdais, Ed Carpenter Racing’s Spencer Pigot, Harding Steinbrenner Racing rookie Colton Herta and Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s Takuma Sato rounded out the top 10 on the no-tow speed chart in this practice session by finishing in seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th place in their #18 Honda, #21 Chevrolet, #88 Honda and #30 Honda, respectively.

Here are the full no-tow practice results of the opening practice session for the 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Practice Results
1st – Ed Jones
2nd – J.R. Hildebrand
3rd – Tony Kanaan
4th – Charlie Kimball
5th – Ed Carpenter
6th – Alexander Rossi
7th – Sebastien Bourdais
8th – Spencer Pigot
9th – Colton Herta
10th – Takuma Sato
11th – Felix Rosenqvist
12th – Sage Karam
13th – Zach Veach
14th – Conor Daly
15th – Ryan Hunter-Reay
16th – Marco Andretti
17th – Scott Dixon
18th – Pippa Mann
19th – Matheus Leist
20th – Kyle Kaiser
21st – Simon Pagenaud
22nd – Max Chilton
23rd – Helio Castroneves
24th – Marcus Ericsson
25th – Josef Newgarden
26th – Ben Hanley
27th – Jack Harvey
28th – James Hinchcliffe
29th – Oriol Servia
30th – Will Power
31st – Jordan King
32nd – Graham Rahal
33rd – James Hinchcliffe
34th – Santino Ferrucci
35th – Fernando Alonso
36th – James Davison

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The second practice session for the 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500 is scheduled to take place tomorrow from 11:00 a.m. ET to 6:00 p.m. ET. It is set to be broadcast live on NBC Sports Gold from Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and you can follow along live on IndyCar RaceControl.