SpeedCafe’s Stefan Bartholomaeus reports that NASCAR champion Kyle Larson and two-time Indy 500 winner Takuma Sato both emerged unhurt after finding the wall in separate incidents during the morning (yesterday).
The test featured two segments with qualifying boost levels used in the morning before the field switched to race trim for the afternoon.
Team Penske’s McLaughlin topped the morning with a 232.686mph best from Sato (Rahal Letterman Lanigan), Will Power (Penske), Felix Rosenqvist (Meyer Shank) and Alex Paulo (Ganassi).
Paulo paced the afternoon on 223.993mph ahead of Rosenqvist, Kyle Kirkwood (Andretti), Conor Daly (Juncos Hollinger), and Josef Newgarden (Penske), with Power 11th and McLaughlin 13th.