Christian Lundgaard ended Saturday morning’s practice for The Thermal Club IndyCar Grand Prix with the fastest lap in his No. 7 Chevy.
The Arrow McLaren driver turned a 1m40.6421s lap despite being forced to sit out the last 10 minutes of the session due to missing the mandatory visit to the scales to log driver weights after FP1 on Friday.
Behind Lundgaard in the No. 10 Honda was Alex Palou, Friday’s fastest driver (+0.4826s) and Andretti Global’s Marcus Ericsson in the No. 28 Honda was third (+0.6410s).
Meyer Shank Racing’s Marcus Armstrong was fourth in the No. 66 Honda (+0.7153s), followed by Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward in fifth (+0.7913s) and Team Penske’s Will Power in sixth (+0.8379s),
PREMA Racing, which lost most of Friday’s session with Robert Schwartzman’s No. 83 Chevy after a fuel line came loose and set the back of the car on fire, worked throughout the night to prepare a backup chassis that hit pit lane in the final minutes of the session. Shwartzman was sent out for an installation lap before the checkered flag.
The hot 45-minute session was run under blue skies and had teams focusing heavily on qualifying setups for the grid-setting run this afternoon.
UP NEXT: Qualifying, 5:05-6:30 pm PT.
