Indy 500 Carb Day: O’Ward leads Dixon in final practice

Pato O’Ward put Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet at the top of the speed charts in the last on-track session before the 104th running of the Indianapolis 500.

O’Ward, classified as a rookie at Indy after a DNQ in 2019, was the only driver to break the 225mph barrier and the 40sec barrier, his 11^th lap of 84 resulting in 225.355mph.

That put him 0.7mph ahead of the best effort from Scott Dixon, the 2008 Indy winner for Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda, while two more former winners Alexander Rossi and Takuma Sato were third and fourth fastest. All looked confident in traffic and well able to tow up and pass – “wicked fast,” as Dixon described it.

Oliver Askew, another rookie, was fifth in the second Arrow McLaren SP entry ahead of Zach Veach who said yesterday that his car was feeling comfortable in traffic and proved it today.

As in qualifying, Josef Newgarden was the fastest of the Team Penske-Chevrolet runners, while his Indy winning teammates were buried in 14^th, 17^th and 24^th. The last of these, Will Power told NBC the car was “off” at the start of the session but made good gains toward the end, before he reverted to pitstop practice.

Power was just behind Fernando Alonso in terms of speed, but ahead of pole-winner Marco Andretti, who could only manage P28 and whose car looked very nervous in the wake of his rivals.

Marcus Ericsson (Ganassi), Ben Hanley (DragonSpeed) and James Hinchcliffe (Andretti Autosport) all clocked more than half-race distance.

Indy 500 Carb Day times

P	No	Name	FL	Laps	FSpeed	Engine	Team
1	5	Pato O'Ward	11	84	225.355	Chevy	Arrow McLaren SP
2	9	Scott Dixon	37	59	224.646	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
3	27	Alexander Rossi	7	58	224.599	Honda	Andretti Autosport
4	30	Takuma Sato	39	85	224.580	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
5	7	Oliver Askew	50	82	224.128	Chevy	Arrow McLaren SP
6	26	Zach Veach	3	73	223.957	Honda	Andretti Autosport
7	1	Josef Newgarden	7	68	223.764	Chevy	Team Penske
8	8	Marcus Ericsson	9	105	223.700	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
9	60	Jack Harvey	58	72	223.641	Honda	Meyer Shank Racing
10	55	Alex Palou	44	91	223.570	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing with Team Goh
11	4	Charlie Kimball	38	79	223.491	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
12	29	James Hinchcliffe	8	103	223.461	Honda	Andretti Autosport
13	88	Colton Herta	16	88	223.433	Honda	Andretti Harding Steinbrenner Autosport
14	22	Simon Pagenaud	72	89	223.419	Chevy	Team Penske
15	20	Ed Carpenter	29	65	223.410	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
16	21	Rinus VeeKay	58	92	223.385	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
17	3	Helio Castroneves	8	93	223.093	Chevy	Team Penske
18	47	Conor Daly	8	78	223.010	Chevy	Ed Carpenter Racing
19	14	Tony Kanaan	28	51	222.999	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
20	41	Dalton Kellett	14	73	222.951	Chevy	AJ Foyt Enterprises
21	18	Santino Ferrucci	74	95	222.806	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan
22	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	24	81	222.731	Honda	Andretti Autosport
23	66	Fernando Alonso	41	72	222.680	Chevy	Arrow McLaren SP
24	12	Will Power	73	81	222.578	Chevy	Team Penske
25	15	Graham Rahal	3	71	222.158	Honda	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
26	45	Spencer Pigot	16	48	221.789	Honda	RLL with Citrone/Buhl Autosport
27	10	Felix Rosenqvist	23	71	221.675	Honda	Chip Ganassi Racing
28	98	Marco Andretti	6	70	221.314	Honda	Andretti Herta with Marco & Curb-Agajanian
29	51	James Davison	53	64	220.889	Honda	Dale Coyne Racing w/Rick Ware Racing/Byrd/Belardi
30	59	Max Chilton	55	80	220.666	Chevy	Carlin
31	67	JR Hildebrand	28	44	219.727	Chevy	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
32	24	Sage Karam	5	38	219.396	Chevy	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
33	81	Ben Hanley	10	104	217.984	Chevy	DragonSpeed USA

Series	IndyCar
Event	Indy 500
Author	David Malsher-Lopez

Indy 500 Carb Day: O’Ward leads Dixon in final practice

Pato O’Ward put Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet at the top of the speed charts in the last on-track session before the 104th running of the Indianapolis 500.

Indy 500 Carb Day times

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