Warming Up: Everyone Will Be Chasing Colton Herta Today in Toronto
It has been an Andretti Global weekend at the Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto, with last year's race winner, Colton Herta, winning the NTT P1 Award for the third time in four years and Kyle Kirkwood leading a practice session and earning the sixth starting position for today's race.
But in the morning warmup session, it was Arrow McLaren at the front.
SEE: Session Results
Christian Lundgaard, who won the 2023 race, and Nolan Siegel were 1-2 in the practice, although the times were more than six seconds off Herta's pole-winning pace as teams weren't pushing to the maximum as track conditions were not as they will be when the race is held. The Canadian morning offered a damp surface at Exhibition Place.
Herta's best lap was a full 20 seconds slower than he qualified; Kirkwood's was 37 seconds slower. So, those weren't really laps to consider.
The lone incident in the 30-minute session was Santino Ferrucci's trouble in Turn 7. The driver of the No. 14 Sexton Properties/AJ Foyt Racing Chevrolet hit the wall hard with the left slide, leading to a long slide into the Turn 8 run-off area. All four corners of the car were damaged, a tall repair ask for the crew with such limited time before the race.
The broadcast begins at noon ET on FOX, the FOX Sports app and the INDYCAR Radio Network. The green flag will wave at approximately at 12:22 p.m.
The winner of this event has come from the pole each of the past two years and three times in the past four years. This is the fourth and final street race of the season.
After qualifying 11th, four-time Toronto winner Scott Dixon will start 17th as his No. 9 PNC Bank Chip Ganassi Racing will serve a six-position grid penalty for an unapproved engine change. Dixon is one of five former series winners at Exhibition Place. The others are Team Penske's Will Power (three wins) and Josef Newgarden (two). Single winners are Lundgaard and Herta (2024).
This race is 90 laps, which is five more than have been utilized through its history except in 2014 when it was a doubleheader.
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