Barber IndyCar: Ilott tops final practice for Juncos Hollinger

The 30-minute session which substitutes for the Sunday morning warm-up sees drivers able to run primaries and alternate tire compounds, and Ilott did use the softer compound on his 13^th and fastest lap of his 18-lap total. Nonetheless, his 1min07.0906sec was highly impressive, given that Juncos Hollinger-Chevy is a single-car team, so Ilott has no one with whom to cross-reference his data.

His closest opposition came from Alex Palou, Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda’s defending race winner here, who was a tenth of a second off and Palou’s CGR teammate Marcus Ericsson. Fourth was their senior teammate Scott Dixon, who has scored nine podiums in his 11 races at Barber but is still seeking his first win at the 2.366-mile course.

Alexander Rossi was top of the Andretti Autosport-Hondas, as in qualifying, and he was a tenth ahead of Scott McLaughlin, Team Penske-Chevrolet’s pacesetter this weekend.

The 2019 Barber winner Takuma Sato slotted his Dale Coyne Racing-Honda with RWR entry into seventh ahead of the leading driver from his old team Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Christian Lundgaard. Thus Ilott, Lundgaard and the second Coyne driver, David Malukas, ensured there were three rookies in the Top 10.

There was a long red flag after Tatiana Calderon lost it on the approach to Turn 2 and had to be rescued after a trip through the gravel trap.

Josef Newgarden had a minor off at Turn 5, running the beautifully liveried PPG-colored Penske-Chevrolet off the road but regaining the track without assistance and eventually finishing 11^th.

The Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama starts at 12.10pm local (Central) time on Sunday.

P	Name	FTime	Diff	Gap	FL	Laps	FSpeed	Engine	Tire	Team
1	Callum Ilott	1:07.0906		0.000	13	18	123.415	Chevy	A	Juncos Hollinger Racing
2	Alex Palou	1:07.1916	0.1010	0.1010	12	18	123.230	Honda	P	Chip Ganassi Racing
3	Marcus Ericsson	1:07.2745	0.1839	0.0829	16	18	123.078	Honda	A	Chip Ganassi Racing
4	Scott Dixon	1:07.3412	0.2506	0.0667	17	17	122.956	Honda	A	Chip Ganassi Racing
5	Alexander Rossi	1:07.3529	0.2623	0.0117	14	17	122.935	Honda	A	Andretti Autosport
6	Scott McLaughlin	1:07.4618	0.3712	0.1089	9	19	122.736	Chevy	P	Team Penske
7	Takuma Sato	1:07.5935	0.5029	0.1317	16	16	122.497	Honda	A	Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR
8	Christian Lundgaard	1:07.7778	0.6872	0.1843	16	16	122.164	Honda	A	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
9	David Malukas	1:07.7849	0.6943	0.0071	19	19	122.151	Honda	A	Dale Coyne Racing with HMD
10	Colton Herta	1:07.8972	0.8066	0.1123	12	16	121.949	Honda	P	Andretti Autosport
11	Josef Newgarden	1:07.9304	0.8398	0.0332	9	18	121.889	Chevy	P	Team Penske
12	Conor Daly	1:07.9815	0.8909	0.0511	11	18	121.798	Chevy	A	Ed Carpenter Racing
13	Pato O'Ward	1:08.0377	0.9471	0.0562	14	18	121.697	Chevy	P	Arrow McLaren SP
14	Helio Castroneves	1:08.1015	1.0109	0.0638	18	19	121.583	Honda	P	Meyer Shank Racing
15	Jack Harvey	1:08.2485	1.1579	0.1470	13	18	121.321	Honda	A	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
16	Will Power	1:08.3181	1.2275	0.0696	18	18	121.198	Chevy	P	Team Penske
17	Romain Grosjean	1:08.3416	1.2510	0.0235	18	18	121.156	Honda	P	Andretti Autosport
18	Simon Pagenaud	1:08.4035	1.3129	0.0619	13	18	121.046	Honda	P	Meyer Shank Racing
19	Kyle Kirkwood	1:08.4439	1.3533	0.0404	18	18	120.975	Chevy	A	AJ Foyt Enterprises
20	Rinus VeeKay	1:08.4941	1.4035	0.0502	17	20	120.886	Chevy	A	Ed Carpenter Racing
21	Graham Rahal	1:08.5036	1.4130	0.0095	12	12	120.870	Honda	P	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
22	Devlin DeFrancesco	1:08.9696	1.8790	0.4660	11	17	120.053	Honda	P	Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
23	Felix Rosenqvist	1:09.2245	2.1339	0.2549	12	18	119.611	Chevy	A	Arrow McLaren SP
24	Jimmie Johnson	1:09.3675	2.2769	0.1430	11	18	119.364	Honda	P	Chip Ganassi Racing
25	Dalton Kellett	1:09.4407	2.3501	0.0732	17	18	119.238	Chevy	P	AJ Foyt Enterprises
26	Tatiana Calderon	1:20.0404	12.9498	10.5997	4	4	103.448	Chevy	P	AJ Foyt Enterprises