IndyCar: Simon Pagenaud tops seventh 2019 Indianapolis 500 practice session

2019 Indianapolis 500 polesitter Simon Pagenaud topped the speed chart in the seventh practice session for this year’s edition of the famed IndyCar race.

Team Penske’s Simon Pagenaud, who took the pole position for the 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, topped the speed chart in the seventh practice session for the crown jewel on the IndyCar schedule.

Pagenaud topped the speed chart in this practice session by recording a top lap time of 39.3975 seconds (228.441 miles per hour) around the four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval in Speedway, Indiana in his #22 Chevrolet.

Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden finished in second place on the speed chart in this practice session in his #2 Chevrolet to give Team Penske and Chevrolet a top two sweep.

Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports’ James Hinchcliffe was the highest finishing Honda driver in this practice session. He finished in third place in his #5 Honda.

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Honda drivers Scott Dixon of Chip Ganassi Racing and Alexander Rossi of Andretti Autosport rounded out the top five on the speed chart in this practice session by finishing in fourth and fifth place in their #9 Honda and #27 Honda, respectively.

Carlin’s Charlie Kimball, Team Penske teammates Helio Castroneves and Will Power, Chip Ganassi Racing rookie Felix Rosenqvist and Dale Coyne Racing with Byrd-Hollinger-Belardi’s James Davison rounded out the top 10 on the speed chart in this practice session by finishing in sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th place in their #23 Chevrolet, #3 Chevrolet, #12 Chevrolet, #10 Honda and #33 Honda, respectively.

While only the 33 drivers who qualified for this race participated in this practice session, 34 positions were occupied on the speed chart. This is the case because of the fact that A.J. Foyt Enterprises’ Tony Kanaan completed laps driving both his #14 Chevrolet and the #4 Chevrolet of teammate Matheus Leist.

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

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

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The 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500 is the sixth race on the 17-race 2019 IndyCar schedule, and it is scheduled to take place on Memorial Day Sunday, May 26. It is set to be broadcast live from Indianapolis Motor Speedway on NBC beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET, and the race itself is scheduled to get underway slightly after 12:30 p.m. ET.