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Long Beach IndyCar: Rossi edges Rahal, Dixon in third practice

Defending Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach winner Alexander Rossi hit the top of the times in the final seconds of third practice, nudging aside Graham Rahal by 0.1278sec.

David Malsher-Lopez

Edited: Apr 13, 2019, 8:29 PM

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Alexander Rossi, Andretti Autosport Honda

Rossi’s Andretti Autosport-Honda lapped the 1.968-mile street course in 67.0588sec, an average speed of 105.651mph, to jump ahead of Rahal’s Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda and Scott Dixon’s Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda.

Fourth fastest, and within quarter of a second of the top spot was Friday morning pacesetter Ryan Hunter-Reay in the second-quickest Andretti Autosport car.

Simon Pagenaud, echoing his fine performance in practice and qualifying here at Long Beach last year, was fifth fastest and top Chevrolet runner, edging Penske teammate Josef Newgarden by 0.045sec.

Their teammate Will Power was 10th, as he plays catch up after yesterday’s issue, when his rear tires were mounted left on right and right on left.

In between Newgarden and Power lay three rookies – Colton Herta of Harding Steinbrenner Racing, Felix Rosenqvist in the second Ganassi entry and Carlin-Chevrolet’s new star, Patricio O’Ward.

Several drivers rubbed walls and ended up in runoff areas, including pacesetter Rossi, but there were no session stoppages, despite Matheus Leist needing a push-start from the AMR Safety Team.

Qualifying begins at 12.10pm local (Pacific) Time.

Practice times:

Pos. # Driver Team Time Gap 1 27 United States Alexander Rossi Andretti Autosport 1'07.0588 2 15 Graham Rahal Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 1'07.1866 0.1278 3 9 New Zealand Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing 1'07.2257 0.1669 4 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti Autosport 1'07.2949 0.2361 5 22 France Simon Pagenaud Team Penske 1'07.4032 0.3444 6 2 United States Josef Newgarden Team Penske 1'07.4484 0.3896 7 88 Colton Herta Harding Racing 1'07.4785 0.4197 8 10 Sweden Felix Rosenqvist Chip Ganassi Racing 1'07.4954 0.4366 9 31 Mexico Patricio O'Ward United Kingdom Carlin 1'07.5045 0.4457 10 12 Australia Will Power Team Penske 1'07.5261 0.4673 11 18 France Sébastien Bourdais United States Dale Coyne Racing 1'07.5318 0.4730 12 5 Canada James Hinchcliffe Schmidt Peterson Motorsports 1'07.5363 0.4775 13 26 Zach Veach Andretti Autosport 1'07.5684 0.5096 14 7 Sweden Marcus Ericsson Schmidt Peterson Motorsports 1'07.6431 0.5843 15 60 United Kingdom Jack Harvey Meyer Shank Racing 1'07.6433 0.5845 16 30 Japan Takuma Sato United States Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 1'07.7473 0.6885 17 98 Marco Andretti Andretti Autosport 1'07.8318 0.7730 18 20 United Arab Emirates Ed Jones Ed Carpenter Racing 1'07.8936 0.8348 19 21 Spencer Pigot Ed Carpenter Racing 1'07.9158 0.8570 20 19 Santino Ferrucci Dale Coyne Racing 1'07.9663 0.9075 21 59 United Kingdom Max Chilton Carlin 1'07.9799 0.9211 22 14 Brazil Tony Kanaan United States A.J. Foyt Enterprises 1'08.1576 1.0988 23 4 Brazil Matheus Leist A.J. Foyt Enterprises 1'08.1692 1.1104

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