Listen to this article The 30-minute session which substitutes for the Sunday morning warm-up sees drivers able to run primaries and alternate tire compounds, and Ilott did use the softer compound on his 13th and fastest lap of his 18-lap total. Nonetheless, his 1min07.0906sec was highly impressive, given that Juncos Hollinger-Chevy is a single-car team, so Ilott has no one with whom to cross-reference his data. His closest opposition came from Alex Palou, Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda’s defending race winner here, who was a tenth of a second off and Palou’s CGR teammate Marcus Ericsson. Fourth was their senior teammate Scott Dixon, who has scored nine podiums in his 11 races at Barber but is still seeking his first win at the 2.366-mile course. Alexander Rossi was top of the Andretti Autosport-Hondas, as in qualifying, and he was a tenth ahead of Scott McLaug …

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