The previous Penske driver lapped the course in 52.11s to narrowly shade his former and present teammate Helio Castroneves, with whom he received the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona final month.
Castroneves in flip was simply a few hundredths sooner than the quickest of the Honda-powered Chip Ganassi Racing quartet, Marcus Ericsson, across the 1.7-mile model of the course.
Rinus VeeKay of Ed Carpenter Racing was quickest Chevrolet driver in fourth, simply forward of one other Chevy automobile, the AJ Foyt Racing entry of rookie Kyle Kirkwood.
The Indy Lights champion’s #14 Foyt automobile had topped the morning occasions, forward of Ganassi teammates Scott Dixon and Alex Palou. However he was unable to match his 52.286s within the afternoon and slipped to fifth.
Defending champion Palou was sixth forward of the second Carpenter automobile of Conor Daly, whereas six-time champion Dixon was a mere one-hundredth behind that.
Callum Ilott, who began the final three races of 2021, was an encouraging ninth for Juncos Hollinger Racing.
David Malukas, who completed runner-up in final yr’s Lights championship, outpaced by simply zero.08s Takuma Sato, his teammate at Dale Coyne Racing. The 2-time Indy 500 winner was having fun with his first take a look at with the staff, and evolving his working relationship with veteran race engineer Don Bricker.
Jimmie Johnson’s 52.95 within the #48 Carvana-backed Ganassi automobile was sufficient to present him 12th quickest time forward of the opposite two Foyt vehicles of Dalton Kellett (#four) and rookie Tatiana Calderon.
Calderon has been signed to race the #11 Foyt automobile for all street and avenue programs this yr.
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