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Fast Friday Results – Marco Sets Fastest Lap of May at IMS

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Marco Andretti turned the fastest time at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on the final practice day before Pole Day.  His speed of 227.540 mph (39.5535 lap time) put his Chevrolet powered Andretti Autosport #26 on the top of the sheet ahead of the Ryan Briscoe’s Team Penske#2 by a scant 0.1229 seconds.  Four of Marco’s Andretti Autosport teammates are also in the top ten.

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Marco Andretti of Andretti Autosport

The top ten:

  1. Marco Andretti, 227.540
  2. Ryan Briscoe, 226.835
  3. Helio Castroneves, 226.716
  4. Ryan Hunter-Reay, 226.400
  5. Scott Dixon, 226.224
  6. James Hinchcliffe, 225.874
  7. Ana Beatriz, 225.653
  8. JR Hildebrand, 225.571
  9. Dario Franchitti, 225.370
  10. Tony Kanaan, 225.322

Current IZOD IndyCar points leader Will Power was in 11th, rookie Josef Newgarden was 13th, and SoCal’s Charlie Kimball was 14th.

The last time someone named Andretti was on pole at the Indy 500 was in 1987, and his name was Mario.  Incidentally, that was also the year Marco was born.

Fast Friday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway!

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I’ll be paying extra attention to IZOD IndyCar action throughout the summer because IndyCar is the only major professional racing series to have multiple races in SoCal.  First was the Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, also thought of by many as the ‘Monaco of the US’.  And we are also fortunate in SoCal to have the season finale at Auto Club Speedway in September.

Today is Fast Friday at IMS, the last day of practice before Pole Day.  You can watch and listen to the action live at IZOD IndyCar Series Race Control.  So far Ryan Hunter-Reay is topping the time sheets, and SoCal’s own Charlie Kimball is 25th.  Come on Charlie!

More later…