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The 2022 series champion had survived an early off unscathed, but this one - again at Turn 4 - resulted in a lot of rearranged parts at the back of Penske’s No. On this occasion, the culprit was Will Power, who’d gone fastest during testing on Thursday. The final restart came with five minutes remaining – and the final red came one minute later. He was able to keep the car out of the barriers and continue, but moments later Agustin Canapino did exactly the same thing at exactly the same spot and stalled, prompting another red while the No. 3 Penske Chevy was being rescued that teams started reaching for the reds, but no sooner had the session gone green again that Scott Dixon speared off at Turn 6. Next was Team Penske’s Scott McLaughlin, who had the rear step out on the way into Turn 1 with 20 minutes left on the clock and ended up backwards in the gravel. 29 Andretti Honda into a spin that ended with him tank-slapping the tire wall, tearing off the rear wing.
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Several drivers took harmless excursions through the gravel during the opening half of the session before Romain Grosjean became the first to suffer any real consequences when he lost the rear at Turn 4 - the same spot where Alex Palou crashed in testing – and looped the No. The rash of stoppages was reminiscent of Thursday’s test, and the main culprit once again seemed to be the massive drop-off in grip as soon as a car wanders fractionally off-line. It’s like Barber, but I think this will bite sooner.” If you get it slightly wrong, as we’ve seen with a few cars, you’re straight off. “Not as big of a balance difference as usual, but maybe it changes once you are actually in the lap. “From the few corners that I did get sort of at temp, seemed all right,” said O’Ward. Most drivers, including those at the top of the timing screens, set their best times on the harder Firestones. This was illustrated by virtually the entire field switching to the softer-compound red tires for a restart with 15 minutes left on the clock, but being unable to string enough corners together to learn much about how they work before another incident forced them all back to pitlane.
5 Arrow McLaren Chevy, but constant interruptions by red flags during the second half of the 75-minute session hampered everyone’s efforts to set a truly representative time. 26 Andretti Honda was just enough to edge out Pato O’Ward’s best of 1m07.5911s in his No. Colton Herta topped a messy opening practice session for this weekend’s NTT Ind圜ar Series season finale at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on Friday.
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