Magnussen, who made his IndyCar debut at Mid-Ohio last season as a late substitute for an injured Felix Rosenqvist at Arrow McLaren SP, completed 143 laps in Alex Palou’s 2021 title-winning #10 machine.
The Dane, who will return to Ganassi’s IMSA SportsCar Championship lineup for the Sebring 12 Hours before taking up his Peugeot Le Mans Hypercar commitments, was the slowest of the 17 cars attending the first of the two days testing.
He whittled down to a 52.84s effort, which was fractionally under a second off Herta’s front-running pace, although the final classification is heavily caveated by the fact that some drivers tried push-to-pass boost while others did not.
Fresh from his LMP2 class victory in last month’s Daytona 24 Hours, Herta pipped Dale Coyne Racing rookie David Malukas to the top spot with a time of 51.85s that was just 0.01s faster than the Indy Lights graduate.
Malukas, who finished second in the Lights standings behind Kyle Kirkwood last season, took a full…
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