The fifteen Indy Pro 2000 drivers followed the first NTT IndyCar Series practice that had three rookie drivers lead the timesheet.

The sun was shining brightly, and the temperature was in the lower 70s when the session began at 11:30 am.

Sting Ray Robb, Parker Thompson, Kory Enders, and Kyle Kirkwood all spent time at the top of the timing screens in the first half of the session.

Just before the halfway point of the session, the majority of the field was on pit road for adjustments and fresh tires.

At the halfway point of the session, a lap of 81.919 seconds by Enders led the way. Thompson and Kirkwood were both within one-hundredth of Enders. Robb, Lindh, de la Vara, Frost, Petrov, Abel, and Lastochkin made up the rest of the top ten.

With ten minutes remaining, the drivers started to get there Cooper Tires up to optimal operating temperature and started to go quicker.

With eight minutes remaining, championship leader, Kirkwood supplanted Enders at the top of the timing screen. The RP Motorsport rookie wasn’t there for long before Parker Thompson went quicker.

The track remained busy, for the final five minutes, but nobody could get close to Thompson at the top of the timesheet.

Indy Pro 2000 Championship Presented by Cooper Tires Practice #1 Results

RANK CAR NO. DRIVER TEAM QUICK LAP DIFFERENCE TOTAL LAPS
1 8 Parker Thompson Abel Motorsports 1:21.522 –.—- 15
2 28 Kyle Kirkwood RP Motorsport USA 1:21.679 0.1566 17
3 7 Kory Enders DEForce Racing 1:21.919 0.3966 16
4 2 Sting Ray Robb Juncos Racing 1:21.988 0.4658 18
5 90 Nikita Lastochkin Exclusive Autosport 1:21.998 0.4763 16
6 6 Moises de la Vara DEForce Racing 1:22.301 0.7790 16
7 10 Rasmus Lindh Juncos Racing 1:22.363 0.8413 18
8 68 Danial Frost Exclusive Autosport 1:22.399 0.8769 18
9 51 Jacob Abel Abel Motorsports 1:22.542 1.0203 18
10 5 Artem Petrov RP Motorsport USA 1:22.677 1.1545 19
11 27 Matt Round-Garrido Jay Howard Driver Development/BN Racing 1:23.083 1.5612 19
12 11 Antonio Serravalle Pserra Racing/RP Motorsports USA 1:23.175 1.6534 17
13 91 Phillippe Denes FatBoy Racing 1:23.640 2.1181 14
14 3 Antoine Comeau Turn 3 Motorsport 1:23.740 2.2177 17
15 83 Charles Finelli FatBoy Racing 1:27.781 6.2588 19

The middle rung of the Road To Indy Presented by Cooper Tires is back on track at for qualifying at 5:15 pm.

Race Weekend Basics

Race #1: Cooper Tires Indy Lights Grand Prix Presented by Allied Building Products
Race #2: Cooper Tires Indy Lights Grand Prix Presented by Allied Building Products

Race #1 green flag time: Saturday, September 21 at 3:10pm
Race #2 green flag time: Sunday, September 22 at 9:10am 

Race #1 distance: 30 laps or 45 minutes
Race #2 distance: 35 laps or 60 minutes

WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca qualifying track record: 74.2329 seconds by Max Chilton (Carlin) in 2015
WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca race track records: 76.1633 by by Max Chilton (Carlin) in 2015

  • Each entry can utilize four new sets of Cooper Tire slicks as well as one set of used/scuffed tires from the race at Portland International Raceway
  • The timing line is located at Turn 10
  • Drivers failing to slow at least 15% in a timing sector with a local yellow will be subject to a two-place grid spot penalty
  • Drivers who fail to heed the checkered flag at the end of a session will receive a two-grid spot penalty
  • Causing one red flag will result in a driver losing their fastest lap
  • Causing a second red flag will wipe out all of drivers laps, and they will be parked for the remainder of the session
  • Driver points are distributed as follows: 30 – 25 – 22 – 19 – 17 – 15 -14 – 13 – 12 – 11 – 10 – 9 – 8 – 7 – 6 – 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 – an additional one point will be awarded to the pole sitter and to the driver who leads the most laps.

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