Yahoo Autos Rahal leads damp IndyCar warm-up at Mid-Ohio
Rahal Letterman Lanigan’s Graham Rahal topped the speed charts in damp but drying warm-up for this afternoon’s Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio, while Conor Daly got his first laps as Simon Pagenaud’s sub at Meyer Shank Racing.
The only incident of note came while the track was drying but treacherous off-line. Defending IndyCar champion Will Power found a damp patch entering Turn 4, and fishtailed into the runoff, and thus needed a red flag in order to be rescued.
As the session rolled on, the times dropped toward “fully dry” times, David Malukas of Dale Coyne Racing w/HMD-Honda lapping the 13-turn 2.258-mile course in 1m08.6385s, half a second quicker than Pato O’Ward of Arrow McLaren-Chevrolet.
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With three minutes to go, pole winner Colton Herta jumped into second place, but was then displaced by Scott Dixon of Chip Ganassi Racing. Then Graham Rahal, front-row starter, delivered a 1m08.4255s to land top spot, as Dixon furher improved to displace Malukas.
