IndyCar Iowa: Newgarden remains the man to beat

Newgarden, who will start today’s race from pole, lapped the 0.894-mile course in 18.910sec, an average speed of 170.199mph, while Pagenaud, who will start the race at the back due to fuel pressure problems in qualifying, lapped at 168.515mph.

Scott Dixon, who finished second to Pagenaud last night was third fastest in his Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda, ahead of the AJ Foyt Racing-Chevrolet of Tony Kanaan, who is making his final Iowa start.

Takuma Sato and Graham Rahal signaled an upturn in form from Rahal Letterman Lanigan-Honda with fifth and eight best laps, sandwiching the fastest of the Andretti Autosport quintet, Alexander Rossi, and the second Ganassi car of Felix Rosenqvist.

Conor Daly, last night’s polesitter and starting from third today, has kept his Carlin-Chevy competitive and was P10 this afternoon, just behind Hunter-Reay.

Colton Herta, Rinus VeeKay and Will Power, all of whom wrecked last night, got some miles under their rebuilt cars and finished 13^th, 14^th and 20^th respectively.

Santino Ferrucci turned the most laps of the session with 104 in his Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan Honda.

Tonight's race starts at 8.45pm Eastern Time.

Cla	Driver	Team	Laps	Gap	Mph
1	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	42		170.199
2	Simon Pagenaud	Team Penske	25	0.189	168.515
3	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	46	0.229	168.156
4	Tony Kanaan	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	41	0.323	167.337
5	Takuma Sato	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	63	0.377	166.869
6	Alexander Rossi	Andretti Autosport	39	0.508	165.741
7	Felix Rosenqvist	Chip Ganassi Racing	74	0.663	164.426
8	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	63	0.674	164.334
9	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	63	0.695	164.163
10	Conor Daly	Carlin	76	0.700	164.116
11	Marcus Ericsson	Chip Ganassi Racing	75	0.755	163.663
12	Alex Palou	Dale Coyne Racing with Team Goh	86	0.760	163.618
13	Colton Herta	Andretti Harding Steinbrenner Autosport	64	0.769	163.546
14	Rinus van Kalmthout	Ed Carpenter Racing	40	0.844	162.925
15	Patricio O'Ward	Arrow McLaren SP	82	0.873	162.688
16	Jack Harvey	Meyer Shank Racing	78	0.877	162.655
17	Charlie Kimball	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	63	0.924	162.264
18	Marco Andretti	Andretti Herta Autosport with Marco & Curb-Agajani	55	0.946	162.083
19	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	53	0.955	162.015
20	Will Power	Team Penske	80	1.031	161.394
21	Oliver Askew	Arrow McLaren SP	53	1.042	161.310
22	Santino Ferrucci	Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan	104	1.083	160.975
23	Zach Veach	Andretti Autosport	78	1.258	159.579
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