Photo of Scott Dixon by James Black, Indycar

Scott Dixon had the fastest lap in today’s rain delayed and rain shortened Carb day practice for Sunday’s 105th running of the Indianapolis 500. The session began more than two and a half hours late due to morning rain and ended about ten minutes short of the two hour time limit as more rain moved in.

Dixon parked his car for the day after 45 minutes of running. Colton Herta ended his day about 20 minutes early, Both drivers seemed very happy with their cars. Herta hopes for similar conditions on race day.

Rossi and fuel at Indy- Alexander Rossi experienced a fuel spill before the prasctice session began, delaying the start by about six minutes. Indycar assessed a five minute penalty on the 27 car. Rossi has had issues during the 500 with fueling the car, even in 2016 when he won. A longer than normal pit stop due to a fueling issue may have cost him the race in 2019,

“Let’s hope we got our fuel issues out of the way early in Indianapolis,” Rossi told NBC Sports.

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Indianapolis 500 Preview- A Battle of Generations

Notes

Eight Chevys were in the top twelve today, including all four Penske cars. Chevys were virtually invisible during qualifications.

Personal observation- I liked the way and the seemingly easy way Herta and Graham Rahal were able to pass other cars.

Herta and Dixon exchanged the point for several laps, possibly a preview of what we might see Sunday.

The 33 drivers ran a total of 2,350 laps this afternoon.

The results:

1	9	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	228.323	6	47
2	22	Simon Pagenaud	Team Penske	Chevy	227.157	57	89
3	2	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	Chevy	226.856	88	93
4	47	Conor Daly	Ed Carpenter Racing	Chevy	226.399	53	70
5	98	Marco Andretti	Andretti Herta-Haupert w/Marco & Curb-Agajanian	Honda	226.396	64	65
6	12	Will Power	Team Penske	Chevy	226.223	8	82
7	3	Scott McLaughlin	Team Penske	Chevy	226.192	21	66
8	48	Tony Kanaan	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	225.929	7	48
9	30	Takuma Sato	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	225.701	65	94
10	24	Sage Karam	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Chevy	225.542	36	61
11	5	Pato O’Ward	Arrow McLaren SP	Chevy	225.511	57	93
12	59	Max Chilton	Carlin	Chevy	225.348	84	89
13	27	Alexander Rossi	Andretti Autosport	Honda	225.324	47	51
14	14	Sebastien Bourdais	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Chevy	225.163	27	33
15	06	Helio Castroneves	Meyer Shank Racing	Honda	225.161	17	62
16	86	Juan Pablo Montoya	Arrow McLaren SP	Chevy	225.149	33	54
17	1	JR Hildebrand	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Chevy	224.945	30	70
18	18	Ed Jones	Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan	Honda	224.910	12	71
19	15	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	224.872	8	100
20	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Honda	224.719	33	71
21	29	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport	Honda	224.546	19	92
22	10	Alex Palou	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	224.500	58	71
23	8	Marcus Ericsson	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	224.468	61	84
24	7	Felix Rosenqvist	Arrow McLaren SP	Chevy	224.428	20	61
25	4	Dalton Kellett	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Chevy	224.051	19	54
26	25	Stefan Wilson	Andretti Autosport	Honda	224.047	71	74
27	45	Santino Ferrucci	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	223.884	11	77
28	26	Colton Herta	Andretti Autosport	Honda	223.670	26	78
29	60	Jack Harvey	Meyer Shank Racing	Honda	223.664	8	76
30	20	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	Chevy	223.654	24	61
31	21	Rinus VeeKay	Ed Carpenter Racing	Chevy	223.068	10	56
32	16	Simona De Silvestro	Paretta Autosport	Chevy	223.023	25	72
33	51	Pietro Fittipaldi	Dale Coyne Racing w/Rick Ware Racing	Honda	222.173	64	88