Kyle Kirkwood led practice session 1 at Toronto this afternoon as Andretti Autosport continues its season long mastery of street circuits. The team has two poles and one win this year on the street circuits.

Kirkwood’s fast ;apof 1:00.8075 was just a tick slower than he 2022 fast Friday time of 1:00.6. Teammmate Romain Grosjean was second, 0.05 seconds behind. Colton Herta in a third Andretti car, finished fourth.

F3lix Rosenqvist from Arrow mMcLaren was third fastest. The Arrow mcLaren team showed quickness as Alexander rossi and Rosenqvist both led the session late. Rossi ended seventh, and pato O’ward was just behind in eighth.

Rahal Lettermman Lanigan drivers showed promise early as Christian Lundgaard led the round early, but graham rahal led the team in sixteenth, followed by Lundgaard. jack harvey was 21st.

Tom Blomqvist’s Indycar debut was decent. He was 26th on the chart, two tenths of a second ahead of Santino Ferrucci, 2.9 seconds behind Kirkwood. Blomqvist is subbiing for the imjured simon Pagenaud, who will be reevaluated this weeekkend by Indycar to detrmine if he can race at iowwa next weekend.

Notes

The cars of Will Power and Josef newgarden are hard to tell apart this weekend. Newgarden’s Snap-On livery is very simlar to Power’s verizon scheme.

Rinus VeeKay was taking some odd lines. His path fortunately did not cause an issue, but there were some close calls.

I hope race officials can repair the manhole cover in that dip in the road. That looks unsafe.

Points leader Alex Palou was 12th fastest today.

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