Alex Palou will go to the first race of the year of the IndyCar from seventh place on the grid of the St. Petersburg GP. The Spaniard passed the first round solvent but in the second he stayed at the gates and could not access the Fast 6, where the pole is decided and the Andretti commanded. The consolation is that several favorites like Dixonor the Penske of power either newgarden They come from behind and that a seventh does not compromise their options for victory. But the concern is that it forces a comeback. As so many other times the pilot of the ganassi number 10.
He left palou to the classification in the second group, according to the division that is made taking into account the times of the free practice, in which the Spaniard finished fifth. By then they were already in the Fast 12 Rosenqvist, Lundgaard O’Ward, McLaughlin, Kirkwood, and Ericcson. Pagenaud had the dubious honor of raising the first red flag of the day. He couldn’t control his car as he did with a spectacular save canapino. the swedish of McLaren He set the best time with 59.939 and his compatriot Ericsson, from Ganassi, the cut with a 1:00.120.
With rivals the size of newgarden, Dixon, rossi, power, Hertha either Grosjean in group 2, access to the next round required an uneventful and flawless lap within the walls of the urban of St. Petersburg. The 1,00,649 with black tires did not improve the access time of the first group, but it served to maintain fifth place in their series, which improved with the attack with the green tires (the red ones from before, the alternatives) to 59,887, which earned him fourth place with a bitter complaint included from Barcelona when he was bothered by veekay in his attempt. of the favorites failed newgardenseventh and sentenced to 14th on the grid, and agreed Dixon, Hertha, grosjean ahead of Spanish and rossi and power from behind, the latter with 1:00.060. behind.
The table showed that those from the second group were significantly faster than those from the first, but it was time to prove it in the Fast 12. Palou came out of the first attempt provisional sixth, one tenth above the cut, but the momentary 1 had to be improved: 00,766, because from behind they tightened and the first positions were moving away. The 59.778 of the Spaniard left him, by less than a tenth, in an insufficient seventh place, from which he will start the race and which deprived him of the Fast 6. They also fell rosenqvist, Dixon Power, lundgaard and rossi. The pole took her grosjean ahead of Herta, who completed the double of Andretti, O’Ward, Ericsson, Kirkwood and McLaughlin, the latter two without times due to red flags.
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