With the major caveat that some drivers tried push-to-pass boost while others did not, Herta’s lap time of 51.85sec, set on the 67th of 78 laps this afternoon, was just 0.01sec faster than Malukas in the Dale Coyne Racing-Honda around the 1.7-mile short course. Herta had finished the morning in fifth with a 52.409 but as the track rubbered in he moved into P1, while Malukas took a full second off his morning time to slot into P2.
Herta’s teammate Romain Grosjean was 0.17sec off top spot in third, after setting a near identical time in the afternoon as he had in the morning, when it was good enough for top spot.
The Team Penske-Chevrolet pairing of former champions Josef Newgarden and Will Power were fourth and fifth, separated by 0.15sec, while Graham Rahal led the Rahal Letterman Lanigan-Honda contingent in sixth. His two new teammates Jack Harvey and Christian Lundgaard were separated by a mere hundredth, and only about one tenth off Rahal.
Felix Rosenqvist, who endured…
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