Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship points leader Braden Eves led the first official practice session of the 2019 “Month of May.” The Cape Motorsports rookie turned a lap of 85.665 seconds.
Fellow rookie Hunter McElrea and Cape Motorsports teammate Darren Keane turned in the second and third quickest laps with Colin Kaminsky (Pabst Racing) and Anthony Famularo (BN Racing) rounding out the top five.
The 30-minute session late afternoon session began with a light mist and ended with the sun just peaking through the clouds. The temperatures was 71F, and the wind was a brisk 12mph and blowing from the southwest.
The entire session was run under green flag conditions, and the 21 drivers turned a total of 318 laps of the 2.439-mile, 14-turn road course.
Sixteen of the 21 drivers were within one second of Eves.
Of note is Jak Crawford, the Darren Manning coached 14-year-old pilot is making his Road To Indy Presented by Cooper Tires debut in USF2000 this weekend with DEForce Racing and turned the sixth quickest time of the session.
Veteran Keane turned the quickest lap in the pair of 50-minute test sessions earlier in the day with a lap of 85.688 seconds, just two-hundredths behind the lap turned by his teammate Eves in the first practice session.
Fourteen-year-old Jak Crawford led his first ever Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship session on a wet Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course (Photo Courtesy Of Andersen Promotions)
The first test session was run on a wet track with 15 of the 21 entered drivers electing to turn laps. The session was led by newcomer Crawford, who was joined in the top five by Yuven Sundaramoorthy (Pabst Racing), Bruna Tomaselli (Pabst Racing), Eves and Cameron Shields (Newman Wachs Racing).
Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Grand Prix of Indianapolis Practice #1 Results
|
RANK |
CAR NO. |
DRIVER |
TEAM |
QUICK LAP |
DIFFERENCE |
TOTAL LAPS |
|
1 |
8 |
Braden Eves |
Cape Motorsports |
1:25.665 |
–.—- |
16 |
|
2 |
22 |
Hunter McElrea |
Pabst Racing |
1:25.794 |
0.1287 |
17 |
|
3 |
2 |
Darren Keane |
Cape Motorsports |
1:25.829 |
0.1637 |
16 |
|
4 |
23 |
Colin Kaminsky |
Pabst Racing |
1:25.958 |
0.2929 |
15 |
|
5 |
28 |
Anthony Famularo |
BN Racing |
1:26.244 |
0.5786 |
12 |
|
6 |
52 |
Jak Crawford |
DEForce Racing |
1:26.250 |
0.5849 |
16 |
|
7 |
90 |
Manuel Cabrera |
Exclusive Autosport |
1:26.261 |
0.5956 |
18 |
|
8 |
3 |
Reece Gold |
Cape Motorsports |
1:26.316 |
0.6505 |
18 |
|
9 |
27 |
Zach Holden |
BN Racing |
1:26.422 |
0.7565 |
13 |
|
10 |
73 |
Cameron Shields |
Newman Wachs Racing |
1:26.480 |
0.8142 |
17 |
|
11 |
24 |
Bruna Tomaselli |
Pabst Racing |
1:26.487 |
0.8215 |
18 |
|
12 |
21 |
Yuven Sundaramoorthy |
Pabst Racing |
1:26.511 |
0.8454 |
16 |
|
13 |
12 |
Manuel Sulaiman |
DEForce Racing |
1:26.567 |
0.9017 |
13 |
|
14 |
40 |
Jack William Miller |
Miller Vinatieri Motorsports |
1:26.574 |
0.9091 |
17 |
|
15 |
41 |
Eduardo Barrichello |
Miller Vinatieri Motorsports |
1:26.672 |
1.0067 |
17 |
|
16 |
14 |
Alex Baron |
Legacy Autosport |
1:26.739 |
1.0735 |
13 |
|
17 |
5 |
Matt Round-Garrido |
Jay Howard Driver Development |
1:26.907 |
1.2415 |
16 |
|
18 |
36 |
Nolan Siegel |
Newman Wachs Racing |
1:27.036 |
1.3705 |
18 |
|
19 |
77 |
Dakota Dickerson |
Legacy Autosport |
1:27.206 |
1.5405 |
12 |
|
20 |
6 |
Christian Rasmussen |
Jay Howard Driver Development |
1:27.416 |
1.7507 |
4 |
|
21 |
7 |
Christian Bogle |
Jay Howard Driver Development |
1:27.707 |
2.0422 |
16 |
The Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship drivers will have a busy Friday. They are first cars on track tomorrow morning for an 8 am qualifying session. Qualify again at 10:55 am and the first of two races rolls off at 2:45 pm.