For the second time this season, Pabst Racing rookie Rasmus Lindh has led a USF2000 practice session with a fast lap of 1:11.013, only four-hundredths quicker than his teammate Kaylen Frederick.

Lindh’s lap, along with the laps of 17 of the 18 drivers was under the track record of 1:12.748 set by J.R. Hildebrand in 2006.

The Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda drivers are used to being the first cars on track during a race weekend, but today, the 18 entries were the fifth series on tack, following the featured Verizon IndyCar Series.

The green flag for the half-hour session came out at 11:45 AM.

The first red flag came out only seven minutes into the session when ArmsUp Motorsports returnee Max Peichel made contact with the barriers in Turn 11 on his third lap of the session.

At that point in the session, newcomer Braden Eves was leading the way with a lap of 1:11.8925. Most drivers had completed four or five laps of running. Rasmus Lindh, Igor Fraga, Colin Kaminsky, and Julian Van der Watt rounded out the top five.

The green flag came back out with 18 minutes remaining in the session with most drivers heading back out on the track.

It didn’t take long for Rasmus Lindh to go to the top of the timing screens and with 10 minutes in the session was joined by Pabst Racing teammates Lucas Kohl, Kaylen Frederick and Calvin Ming in the top five.

At this point in the session, Kyle Kirkwood, the 2018 USF2000 Champion was on pit road undergoing adjustments by his Cape Motorsports crew. The 19-year-old got back on the 1.964-mile, 12-turn natural terrain circuit with seven minutes remaining.

With four minutes remaining, Kirkwood was able to move into the top three but was not able to improve on his next flying lap.

Lindh, Fraga, and Kohl, the three drivers in contention for second place in the championship ended with the quickest, ninth quickest and fourth quickest times respectively.

Portland International Raceway – USF2000 Practice Session #1 results

RANK CAR NO. DRIVER FAST LAP DIFFERENCE TOTAL LAPS
1 23 Rasmus Lindh 1:11.013 –.—- 18
2 24 Kaylen Frederick 1:11.059 0.0460 17
3 8 Kyle Kirkwood 1:11.312 0.2990 15
4 22 Lucas Kohl 1:11.361 0.3480 20
5 80 Julian Van der Watt 1:11.438 0.4242 21
6 41 Braden Eves 1:11.444 0.4303 19
7 11 Kory Enders 1:11.509 0.4955 20
8 21 Calvin Ming 1:11.535 0.5220 19
9 91 Igor Fraga 1:11.600 0.5866 17
10 9 Dakota Dickerson 1:11.764 0.7504 18
11 81 Kyle Dupell 1:11.806 0.7931 21
12 27 Colin Kaminsky 1:11.907 0.8935 20
13 82 Bruna Tomaselli 1:12.033 1.0192 19
14 12 Jose Sierra 1:12.100 1.0861 15
15 29 Russell McDonough 1:12.118 1.1047 19
16 38 Oscar DeLuzuriaga 1:12.720 1.7063 20
17 90 Kellen Ritter 1:12.736 1.7227 19
18 14 Max Peichel 1:13.881 2.8673 3

The Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda drivers are back on track at 4:15 PM for their first qualifying session. That will be the last official track activity of the day.