IndyCar: Conor Daly tops fourth 2019 Indianapolis 500 practice session

Conor Daly topped the speed chart in the fourth practice session for the 2019 IndyCar season’s sixth race, the 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500.

Andretti Autosport’s Conor Daly topped the fourth practice session, the Fast Friday practice session, for the sixth race on the 17-race IndyCar schedule, the 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500, at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Daly topped the speed chart in this practice session by recording a top lap time of 38.8427 seconds (231.704 miles per hour) around the four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval in Speedway, Indiana in his #25 Honda.

Daly led a top two Andretti Autosport sweep and a top three Honda sweep of the speed chart in this practice session, as Andretti Herta Autosport’s Marco Andretti and Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s Takuma Sato finished in second and third place in their #98 Honda and #30 Honda, respectively.

More from IndyCar

Ed Carpenter Racing’s Spencer Pigot was the highest finishing Chevrolet driver of the practice session. He finished in fourth place in his #21 Chevrolet. Ryan Hunter-Reay gave Andretti Autosport three of the top five positions on the speed chart by finishing in fifth in his #28 Honda.

Chevrolet drivers rounded out the top 13 on the speed chart in this practice session. Ed Carpenter Racing’s Ed Carpenter, Team Penske’s Simon Pagenaud, Carlin’s Charlie Kimball and Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden finished in sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth place in their #20 Chevrolet, #22 Chevrolet, #23 Chevrolet and #2 Chevrolet, respectively.

Ed Carpenter Racing Scuderia Corsa’s Ed Jones, Team Penske’s Will Power, A.J. Foyt Enterprises’ Tony Kanaan and Dreyer & Reinbold Racing’s Sage Karam finished in 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th place in their #63 Chevrolet, #12 Chevrolet, #14 Chevrolet and #24 Chevrolet, respectively.

While 36 drivers participated in this practice session, a total of 37 positions were occupied on the speed chart. This is the case because of the fact that Dreyer & Reinbold Racing’s J.R. Hildebrand also completed a few laps behind the wheel of Karam’s #24 Chevrolet.

Juncos Racing’s Kyle Kaiser, who was the only one of the 36 drivers who participated in this practice session but did no complete an up-to-speed lap, was involved in a massive crash early in the session. He was checked, cleared and released from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway infield medical care center following this incident.

Here is a video of Kaiser’s wreck.

After this incident in Turn 3, @KyleKRacing has been checked, cleared and released from the @IMS Infield Medical Center.#INDYCAR // #ThisIsMay pic.twitter.com/CtMEuNr9Wr
— NTT INDYCAR SERIES (@IndyCar) May 17, 2019

Here are the full practice results of the fourth practice session for the 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Practice Results
1st – Conor Daly
2nd – Marco Andretti
3rd – Takuma Sato
4th – Spencer Pigot
5th – Ryan Hunter-Reay
6th – Ed Carpenter
7th – Simon Pagenaud
8th – Charlie Kimball
9th – Josef Newgarden
10th – Ed Jones
11th – Will Power
12th – Tony Kanaan
13th – Sage Karam
14th – Alexander Rossi
15th – Sebastien Bourdais
16th – Scott Dixon
17th – Zach Veach
18th – Helio Castroneves
19th – Santino Ferrucci
20th – Marcus Ericsson
21st – Jack Harvey
22nd – Graham Rahal
23rd – James Davison
24th – Fernando Alonso
25th – Colton Herta
26th – J.R. Hildebrand
27th – Matheus Leist
28th – Oriol Servia
29th – James Hinchcliffe
30th – Felix Rosenqvist
31st – Pippa Mann
32nd – Jordan King
33rd – Max Chilton
34th – Patricio O’Ward
35th – Ben Hanley
36th – J.R. Hildebrand
37th – Kyle Kaiser

dark. Next. Top 10 Indianapolis 500 drivers of all-time

The fifth and final pre-qualifying practice session for the 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500 is scheduled to take place tomorrow morning from 8:00 a.m. ET to 9:30 a.m. ET. From 8:00 a.m. ET to 8:30 a.m. ET, one group of drivers is set to take to the track, and at 8:30 a.m. ET to 9:00 a.m. ET, another group of drivers is set to do so. From 9:00 a.m. ET to 9:30 a.m. ET, the track will be open for all drivers. This entire practice session is set to be broadcast live from Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and live coverage is set to be provided by IndyCar RaceControl as well.