Colton Herta topped the times during the IndyCar ‘Spring Training’ afternoon test session. The Harding Steinbrenner driver ran a 1:46:63 at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, and also set the fastest morning session time of 1:48:74. Will Power and Helio Castroneves both improved late on to finish second and third on the timesheets, but with a total of eight sets of Firestone tyres, and still a full day of testing to run tomorrow, many teams were not looking for outright pace. Indeed, there was speculation that Herta’s time, almost half a second clear of the Penske pairing, was likely a fresh-tyre, low-fuel run, perhaps with the aim of generating some positive...
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