Indy 500: Newgarden puts Penske on top again in Day 2 practice

On a day when both Formula 1 legend Fernando Alonso and IndyCar super-rookie Felix Rosenqvist suffered sizeable shunts, Josef Newgarden lapped the legendary Indianapolis Motor Speedway at 228.856mph to edge Scott Dixon of Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda by 0.021mph.

Spencer Pigot led the usual Ed Carpenter Racing charge with third fastest while teammates Ed Jones and Carpenter himself were ninth and tenth.

Santino Ferrucci was top rookie, clocking P4 for Dale Coyne Racing-Honda, ahead of three-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves and his own teammate Sebastien Bourdais.

Zach Veach was top Andretti Autosport-Honda driver with seventh fastest, the last driver in the 228mph bracket, with Charlie Kimball – third place finisher here in 2015 – running eighth for Carlin-Chevrolet.

In the no-tow speeds – speeds set without the aid of a draft from a car or cars ahead, Andretti’s Alexander Rossi led the rankings on 224.648mph, with AJ Foyt Racing’s Tony Kanaan second fastest. Jones and Kimball were third and fourth.

Patricio O’Ward, who suffered a mechanical issue in his Carlin car yesterday, breezed through all three phases of his Rookie Orientation practice this morning before the track opened. The Mexican rookie went on to finish the day 22^nd, and 13^th in the no-tow speeds.

P	No	Name	FTime	Diff	Gap	FL	Laps	FSpeed	Engine	Team
1	2	Josef Newgarden	39.326	--.----	--.----	28	82	228.856	Chevy	Team Penske
2	9	Scott Dixon	39.330	0.0036	0.0036	6	109	228.835	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
3	21	Spencer Pigot	39.360	0.0341	0.0305	93	108	228.658	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
4	19	Santino Ferrucci	39.377	0.0508	0.0167	10	90	228.561	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing
5	3	Helio Castroneves	39.398	0.0715	0.0207	28	68	228.441	Chevy	Team Penske
6	18	Sebastien Bourdais	39.427	0.1008	0.0293	52	104	228.271	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan
7	26	Zach Veach	39.464	0.1378	0.0370	71	107	228.057	Honda	Andretti Autosport
8	23	Charlie Kimball	39.565	0.2393	0.1015	86	94	227.472	Chevy	Carlin
9	63	Ed Jones	39.594	0.2685	0.0292	2	91	227.304	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
10	20	Ed Carpenter	39.614	0.2880	0.0195	52	90	227.192	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
11	32	Kyle Kaiser	39.634	0.3078	0.0198	69	79	227.079	Chevy	Juncos Racing
12	4	Matheus Leist	39.641	0.3150	0.0072	74	85	227.038	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
13	98	Marco Andretti	39.641	0.3152	0.0002	36	80	227.037	Honda	Andretti Herta Autosport with Curb-Agajanian
14	15	Graham Rahal	39.646	0.3201	0.0049	69	100	227.008	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
15	22	Simon Pagenaud	39.677	0.3512	0.0311	25	85	226.831	Chevy	Team Penske
16	10	Felix Rosenqvist	39.685	0.3588	0.0076	74	95	226.787	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
17	30	Takuma Sato	39.689	0.3627	0.0039	65	120	226.765	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
18	25	Conor Daly	39.703	0.3770	0.0143	33	112	226.683	Honda	Andretti Autosport
19	77	Oriol Servia	39.703	0.3771	0.0001	77	88	226.683	Honda	Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
20	48	JR Hildebrand	39.709	0.3835	0.0064	75	86	226.646	Chevy	Dreyer and Reinbold Racing
21	12	Will Power	39.716	0.3899	0.0064	48	97	226.609	Chevy	Team Penske
22	31	Patricio O'Ward	39.745	0.4195	0.0296	3	70	226.441	Chevy	Carlin
23	60	Jack Harvey	39.754	0.4275	0.0080	53	58	226.395	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing with Arrow SPM
24	14	Tony Kanaan	39.759	0.4330	0.0055	56	63	226.364	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
25	33	James Davison	39.812	0.4859	0.0529	98	106	226.063	Honda	Dale Coyne with Byrd and Belardi
26	24	Sage Karam	39.849	0.5232	0.0373	29	37	225.851	Chevy	Dreyer and Reinbold Racing
27	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	39.877	0.5507	0.0275	15	99	225.696	Honda	Andretti Autosport
28	7	Marcus Ericsson	39.879	0.5526	0.0019	47	111	225.685	Honda	Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
29	66	Fernando Alonso	39.923	0.5971	0.0445	18	46	225.433	Chevy	McLaren Racing
30	59	Max Chilton	39.924	0.5977	0.0006	75	114	225.430	Chevy	Carlin
31	42	Jordan King	39.948	0.6224	0.0247	22	132	225.291	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
32	5	James Hinchcliffe	39.954	0.6280	0.0056	108	112	225.259	Honda	Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
33	88	Colton Herta	40.053	0.7267	0.0987	19	111	224.704	Honda	Harding Steinbrenner Racing
34	27	Alexander Rossi	40.063	0.7367	0.0100	34	46	224.648	Honda	Andretti Autosport
35	39	Pippa Mann	40.098	0.7723	0.0356	46	55	224.448	Chevy	Clauson-Marshall Racing
36	81	Ben Hanley	40.114	0.7879	0.0156	82	90	224.361	Chevy	DragonSpeed