Josef Newgarden, who is attempting to grab third in the championship today at Sonoma’s IndyCar finale, put his Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet top of the timesheets in raceday warm-up. On what may well prove his final raceday for Ed Carpenter Racing, Newgarden lapped the 2.385-mile course in 1min17.6431sec on the 11th of his 16 laps to narrowly edge outgoing champion Scott Dixon, who is trying to give Chip Ganassi Racing’s 27-year sponsor Target the perfect send-off. Takuma Sato was third fastest, and top Honda, in the AJ Foyt Racing machine, ahead of another Ganassi car, that of Charlie Kimball. Alexander Rossi was top Andretti Autosport machine in fifth, with third-row starter Graham...
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