Practice Results<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s good to top the Friday 500 here in Elkhart Lake,\u201d the wry Armstrong said. \u201cIt\u2019s OK. The car feels good \u2013 that\u2019s the main thing. I\u2019m as sick as a dog. I don\u2019t feel great. At least I\u2019ve proven to myself I can still be fast with two hours of sleep. It\u2019s going around \u2013 flu season, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s good that you roll out on blacks (Firestone Firehawk primary tires) and you\u2019re fast, and you put reds (Firestone Firehawk alternate tires) on and you\u2019re fast. And we didn\u2019t do anything spectacular. I don\u2019t think I did a perfect lap, either, so it\u2019s nice Felix is right up there, too. It\u2019s all good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Series leader and reigning Road America winner Alex Palou was third at 1:44.3659 in the No. 10 DHL Chip Ganassi Racing Honda. Palou, who leads runner-up Kyle Kirkwood by 49 points, has three career victories in seven starts at the 14-turn, 4.014-mile road course.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis place, it\u2019s so enjoyable as a driver, especially when you have a fast car like we seem to have today,\u201d Palou said of the longest track on the schedule. \u201cIt\u2019s hard work; it\u2019s never easy to put up a lap together here at Road America, but it feels so fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
Arrow McLaren teammates filled the last two spots in the top five. Pato O\u2019Ward was fourth at 1:44.3688 in the No. 5 Chevrolet, while Nolan Siegel enjoyed perhaps his best session of the season in the No. 6 Chevrolet by rounding out the top five at 1:44.4328.<\/p>\n
Kirkwood, the only driver within a race\u2019s worth of points of Palou, was 15th at 1:45.0332 in the No. 27 Sam\u2019s Club Honda of Andretti Global.<\/p>\n
Two rookies ended up in the top 10. Caio Collet was the quickest first-year driver, sixth at 1:44.4651 in the No. 4 Combitrans Amazonia Chevrolet of AJ Foyt Racing. Mick Schumacher produced arguably his best session since qualifying fourth in March for his first oval race at Phoenix Raceway, ending up eighth at 1:44.7864 in the No. 47 ENVE Honda of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing.<\/p>\n
There was one incident that triggered a red flag. Sting Ray Robb was unhurt after spinning on the exit curb at Turn 14 and hitting the outside wall, bending the left front suspension and rear wing of his No. 77 Juncos Hollinger \u2013 Goodheart Chevrolet.<\/p>\n
Up next is practice at 11 a.m. ET Saturday, followed by NTT P1 Award qualifying at 2 p.m. ET. FS1, FOX One and INDYCAR Radio powered by OnlyBulls are broadcasting both sessions live.<\/p>\n
Live coverage of the 55-lap race starts at 2 p.m. ET Sunday on FOX, FOX One, FOX Deportes and INDYCAR Radio powered by OnlyBulls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marcus Armstrong wasn\u2019t feeling great Friday, but his race car was at full strength during the first practice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-487156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}