By Patrick Stephan
Steve Wittich is attending to a family matter, so I will be pinch hitting on the TSOLadder.com side today. And unfortunately, I was on an airplane (and then in the rental car) from Denver to Milwaukee when the first three official sessions of the weekend were completed.
Here is a quick recap of those sessions (please note, I didn’t actually see them so I can’t comment on red flags, etc.)
I’ll be covering the rest of today’s Road to Indy action live (and more completely of course) now that I am here at beautiful Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.
The first session of the day was Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship practice #1 at 8:00am.
That session was led by Matt Round-Garrido, followed by Prescott Campbell and Spike Kohlbecker.
Pos | Car | Driver | Best Time | Speed | Diff | Gap | Best Lap | Total Laps | ||
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1 | 92 | Matt | Round-Garrido | 02:11.4794 | 109.906 | –.—- | –.—- | 9 | 9 | |
2 | 11 | Prescott | Campbell | 02:11.4888 | 109.898 | 0.0094 | 0.0094 | 4 | 9 | |
3 | 5 | Spike | Kohlbecker | (R) | 02:11.4974 | 109.891 | 0.0180 | 0.0086 | 9 | 10 |
4 | 12 | Kiko | Porto | 02:11.5092 | 109.881 | 0.0298 | 0.0118 | 10 | 10 | |
5 | 4 | Michael | d’Orlando | 02:11.5577 | 109.841 | 0.0783 | 0.0485 | 5 | 5 | |
6 | 10 | Nolan | Siegel | 02:11.5648 | 109.835 | 0.0854 | 0.0071 | 10 | 10 | |
7 | 2 | Thomas | Nepveu | (R) | 02:11.5964 | 109.808 | 0.1170 | 0.0316 | 9 | 9 |
8 | 22 | Yuven | Sundaramoorthy | 02:11.6383 | 109.774 | 0.1589 | 0.0419 | 10 | 10 | |
9 | 29 | Erik | Evans | (R) | 02:11.7183 | 109.707 | 0.2389 | 0.0800 | 8 | 9 |
10 | 33 | Josh | Green | 02:11.7932 | 109.645 | 0.3138 | 0.0749 | 8 | 8 | |
11 | 24 | Josh | Pierson | 02:11.8265 | 109.617 | 0.3471 | 0.0333 | 8 | 9 | |
12 | 6 | Bijoy | Garg | 02:11.9036 | 109.553 | 0.4242 | 0.0771 | 8 | 8 | |
13 | 34 | Dylan | Christie | (R) | 02:11.9388 | 109.524 | 0.4594 | 0.0352 | 8 | 8 |
14 | 23 | Jace | Denmark | (R) | 02:12.3850 | 109.154 | 0.9056 | 0.4462 | 9 | 9 |
15 | 1 | Ely | Navarro | (R) | 02:12.6691 | 108.921 | 1.1897 | 0.2841 | 4 | 4 |
16 | 99 | Myles | Rowe | (R) | 02:12.6802 | 108.912 | 1.2008 | 0.0111 | 9 | 9 |
17 | 19 | Simon | Sikes | 02:12.6832 | 108.909 | 1.2038 | 0.0030 | 3 | 8 | |
18 | 91 | Billy | Frazer | (R) | 02:12.7994 | 108.814 | 1.3200 | 0.1162 | 9 | 9 |
19 | 8 | Jackson | Lee | (R) | 02:13.0741 | 108.589 | 1.5947 | 0.2747 | 8 | 8 |
20 | 9 | Peter | Vodanovich | (R) | 02:13.2325 | 108.460 | 1.7531 | 0.1584 | 7 | 7 |
21 | 3 | Evan | Stamer | (R) | 02:13.3902 | 108.332 | 1.9108 | 0.1577 | 8 | 9 |
22 | 44 | Christian | Brooks | 02:13.6922 | 108.087 | 2.2128 | 0.3020 | 2 | 3 | |
23 | 16 | Kent | Vaccaro | (R) | 02:13.8744 | 107.940 | 2.3950 | 0.1822 | 6 | 6 |
24 | 63 | Trey | Burke | (R) | 02:13.9112 | 107.910 | 2.4318 | 0.0368 | 8 | 8 |
25 | 42 | Michael | Myers | 02:14.0283 | 107.816 | 2.5489 | 0.1171 | 9 | 9 |
The Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship would get back on the track at 11:30am for Race #1 Qualifying.
This time it was Kiko Porto, the 17 year old from Brazil, that picked up the pole position for DE Force Racing. He will start the race alongside his teammate Nolan Siegel, with Michael d’Orlando starting third.
Porto goes in to today’s 3:30pm Central Time race trailing 5th starting Yuven Sundaramoorthy by just 7 points (177-170). Spike Kohlbecker will start the race in 4th.
d’Orlando is tied for third in the points, with Christian Brooks, who will have to come from the 12th starting spot.
Porto has a win already this season on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.
Pos | Car # | Driver | Best Time | Diff | Total Laps | Fast Lap | Team | |||
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1 | 12 | Kiko | Porto | 2:10.7892 | 6 | 3 | DEForce | Racing | ||
2 | 10 | Nolan | Siegel | 2:11.0411 | 0.2519 | 5 | 2 | DEForce | Racing | |
3 | 4 | Michael | d’Orlando | 2:11.2916 | 0.5024 | 6 | 3 | Cape | Motorsports | |
4 | 5 | Spike | Kohlbecker | 2:11.3259 | 0.5367 | 5 | 2 | Ignite | Autosports | w/Cape |
5 | 22 | Yuven | Sundaramoorthy | 2:11.3968 | 0.6076 | 5 | 2 | Pabst | Racing | |
6 | 11 | Prescott | Campbell | 2:11.4094 | 0.6202 | 6 | 4 | DEForce | Racing | |
7 | 24 | Josh | Pierson | 2:11.5483 | 0.7591 | 5 | 2 | Pabst | Racing | |
8 | 33 | Josh | Green | 2:11.5819 | 0.7927 | 5 | 2 | Turn | 3 | Motorsport |
9 | 23 | Jace | Denmark | 2:11.6630 | 0.8738 | 5 | 2 | Pabst | Racing | |
10 | 92 | Matt | Round-Garrido | 2:11.7005 | 0.9113 | 7 | 6 | Exclusive | Autosport | |
11 | 6 | Bijoy | Garg | 2:11.7744 | 0.9852 | 6 | 2 | Jay | Howard | Driver |
12 | 44 | Christian | Brooks | 2:11.8479 | 1.0587 | 6 | 2 | Exclusive | Autosport | |
13 | 2 | Thomas | Nepveu | 2:11.8565 | 1.0673 | 3 | 2 | Cape | Motorsports | |
14 | 34 | Dylan | Christie | 2:11.9074 | 1.1182 | 5 | 3 | Turn | 3 | Motorsport |
15 | 1 | Ely | Navarro | 2:12.1118 | 1.3226 | 6 | 3 | DEForce | Racing | |
16 | 19 | Simon | Sikes | 2:12.1244 | 1.3352 | 7 | 4 | Legacy | Autosport | |
17 | 8 | Jackson | Lee | 2:12.2632 | 1.4740 | 5 | 5 | Jay | Howard | Driver |
18 | 29 | Erik | Evans | 2:12.3180 | 1.5288 | 7 | 4 | Velocity | Racing | Development |
19 | 99 | Myles | Rowe | 2:12.3203 | 1.5311 | 6 | 3 | Force | Indy | |
20 | 63 | Trey | Burke | 2:12.4888 | 1.6996 | 7 | 5 | Joe | Dooling | Autosports |
21 | 9 | Peter | Vodanovich | 2:12.5592 | 1.7700 | 5 | 4 | Jay | Howard | Driver |
22 | 91 | Billy | Frazer | 2:12.7529 | 1.9637 | 6 | 6 | Exclusive | Autosport | |
23 | 3 | Evan | Stamer | 2:12.7715 | 1.9823 | 7 | 6 | Ignite | Autosports | w/Cape |
24 | 16 | Kent | Vaccaro | 2:13.7131 | 2.9239 | 8 | 4 | Miller | Vinatieri | Motorsports |
25 | 42 | Michael | Myers | 2:14.2880 | 3.4988 | 7 | 5 | Michael | Myers | Racing |
IndyPro 2000 presented by Cooper Tires took to the track at 9:45am, and Artem Petrov just bested his Exclusive Autosport teammate Braden Eves by 0.0333 of a second. Reece Gold was third quickest.
Point leader Christian Rasmussen was 5th quick, but is only 0.0849 off the fast time. In fact, the Top-5 are within a tenth of a second and 11 of the 12 cars here are within a single second. That’s amazingly close, especially for a 4.014 mile 14 Turn race course.
These same drivers will be back out at 1:45pm Central Time for their first qualifying session.
Pos | Car # | Driver | Best Time | Diff | Total Laps | Best Lap | Gap | Team | ||||
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1 | 42 | Artem | Petrov | 2:05.3626 | 8 | 6 | 0.000 | Exclusive | Autosport | |||
2 | 91 | Braden | Eves | 2:05.3959 | 0.0333 | 9 | 4 | 0.0333 | Exclusive | Autosport | ||
3 | 55 | Reece | Gold | 2:05.4019 | 0.0393 | 8 | 8 | 0.0060 | Juncos | Racing | ||
4 | 22 | Manuel | Sulaiman | 2:05.4268 | 0.0642 | 9 | 7 | 0.0249 | Juncos | Racing | ||
5 | 1 | Christian | Rasmussen | 2:05.4475 | 0.0849 | 6 | 4 | 0.0207 | Jay | Howard | Driver | Development |
6 | 40 | Jack William | Miller | 2:05.6263 | 0.2637 | 9 | 6 | 0.1788 | Miller | Vinatieri | Motorsports | |
7 | 21 | Kyffin | Simpson | 2:05.7644 | 0.4018 | 9 | 9 | 0.1381 | Juncos | Racing | ||
8 | 51 | Jacob | Abel | 2:05.8131 | 0.4505 | 9 | 7 | 0.0487 | Abel | Motorsports | ||
9 | 3 | James | Roe | 2:05.9182 | 0.5556 | 9 | 3 | 0.1051 | Turn | 3 | Motorsport | |
10 | 18 | Hunter | McElrea | 2:05.9571 | 0.5945 | 10 | 10 | 0.0389 | Pabst | Racing | ||
11 | 5 | Wyatt | Brichacek | 2:06.1943 | 0.8317 | 8 | 5 | 0.2372 | Jay | Howard | Driver | Development |
12 | 11 | Hunter | Yeany | 2:06.4782 | 1.1156 | 10 | 4 | 0.2839 | Velocity | Racing | Development |
The drivers in the incredibly tight Indy Lights presented by Cooper Tires points battle made it’s way on to the track at 10:30am this morning, but it was 9th in the season standings Robert Megennis that topped the practice session over Alex Peroni and Toby Sowery.
Point Leader Linus Lundqvist was 7th quick. Trailing him by just a single point coming in to this weekend is David Malukus, who was 9th. Third (by 4 points) Kyle Kirkwood was 4th quickest.
The Indy Lights drivers will be back on the track at 2:30pm for their first qualifying session of the weekend.
Pos | Car # | Driver | Best Time | Diff | Total Laps | Fast Lap | Team | ||
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1 | 27 | Robert | Megennis | 1:56.0097 | 14 | 4 | Andretti | Autosport | |
2 | 5 | Alex | Peroni | 1:56.2950 | 0.2853 | 8 | 5 | Carlin | |
3 | 51 | Toby | Sowery | 1:56.7138 | 0.7041 | 12 | 3 | Juncos | Racing |
4 | 28 | Kyle | Kirkwood | 1:57.0261 | 1.0164 | 14 | 3 | Andretti | Autosport |
5 | 7 | Christian | Bogle | 1:57.1973 | 1.1876 | 13 | 3 | Carlin | |
6 | 17 | Devlin | DeFrancesco | 1:57.3066 | 1.2969 | 12 | 3 | Andretti | Steinbrenner |
7 | 26 | Linus | Lundqvist | 1:57.3943 | 1.3846 | 14 | 10 | Global | Racing |
8 | 68 | Danial | Frost | 1:57.4236 | 1.4139 | 5 | 5 | Andretti | Autosport |
9 | 79 | David | Malukas | 1:57.6210 | 1.6113 | 14 | 7 | HMD | Motorsports |
10 | 2 | Sting Ray | Robb | 1:57.8748 | 1.8651 | 14 | 4 | Juncos | Racing |
11 | 59 | Nikita | Lastochkin | 1:57.9368 | 1.9271 | 16 | 7 | HMD | Motorsports |
12 | 24 | Benjamin | Pedersen | 1:58.0628 | 2.0531 | 17 | 4 | Global | Racing |
13 | 11 | Antonio | Serravalle | 1:58.3118 | 2.3021 | 16 | 5 | Pserra | Racing |