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Newgarden leads final practice, Harvey crashes

Newgarden leads final practice, Harvey shunts

Harvey, who has qualified only 24th yet was fastest of the Rahal Letterman Lanigan-Hondas in a strangely poor event for the team so far, was on his 26th lap of the 1.5-mile track in final practice when his car understeered in the middle of Turn 2.

Harvey downchanged, his car started oversteering, and its right-rear wheel appeared barely to kiss the wall, but it was enough to unsettle the car and wrench it out of Harvey’s control.

It looped around and across the track to make heavy contact with the inside wall and then slid along the back straight to Turn 3.

Thankfully, Harvey – who struck a wall in St. Petersburg, too – was able to step from the car unaided, and the RLL team started to build up the spare tub for Sunday’s race.

By contrast, Harvey’s team-mates had a somewhat reassuring session, their cars clearly quick in the draft, with rookie Christian Lundgaard fourth and Graham Rahal seventh, but coming from the back of the field will be difficult without taking major…

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