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Mid-Ohio Honda Indy 200 Qualifying Results for Ganassi and Rahal Teams
LEXINGTON, OHIO (Pittsburgh Racing Now) – A mixed bag in qualifying for the Honda Indy 200 for Chip Ganassi Racing Saturday at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Complex.
Rookie Felix Rosenqvist will start sixth in the No. 10 Clover Honda after surviving the first two rounds of knockout-style qualifying.
“I think we had a great session and I’m really happy with the results,” said Rosenqvist. “Obviously, you want to do better in the third round, but for whatever reason, the tires just weren’t there and there was nothing left to get from them. I was happy with the second qualifying round on both primary and alternate (Firestone) tires and I felt we nailed that and the times we were able to achieve.”
Rosenqvist’s teammate, Scott Dixon, did not advance out of the second round of qualifying and will start eighth in the No. 9 PNC Bank Honda.
“I definitely felt off,” said Dixon. “It was just hard for us. On the initial turn-in for us, we had a lot of understeer and the car was very snappy off the corner. We went fairly different as a result of how the practice went this morning, so the No. 10 went one route and we went another. Maybe we just went a little too far.”
Despite the difficulties, the Ganassi team will start inside the top 10. Bobby Rahal’s team will not.
Graham Rahal will start 15th in the No. 15 Fifth Third Bank Honda and his teammate, Takuma Sato, will start 17th in the Mi-Jack Honda. Neither driver made it out of the first round of qualifying.
“Four cars were within six-hundredths of a second in our group and we weren’t on the right end of that to progress to Round 2,” said Rahal. “Obviously, we’re disappointed to not be faster.”
“We’re just not quite there on the setup,” said Sato. “We made some improvements from practice, but it seems like we need more speed. We want to try a few things in the warmup to make the car faster, and then we will try to work our way forward in the race.”
Team Penske’s Will Power will start on the pole position with Andretti Autosport’s Alexander Rossi will start alongside Power on the front row.
The morning on warmup on Sunday runs from Noon to 12:30 p.m. followed by the green flag at 4:05 p.m. The race will be televised live on CNBC and can be heard on the Advance Auto Parts IndyCar Radio Network.
WASHINGTON D.C. (August 22, 2026) – Alex Palou’s blistering lap of 56.8993 seconds in the No. 10 OpenAI Chip Ganassi Racing Honda puts the four-time NTT IndyCar Series Champion on the pole position for Sunday’s Freedom 250 on the streets of Washington D.C.
“Incredible,” said Palou. “My car was on rails. Super-fun lap, super-fun car to drive. Couldn’t be happier. Looking forward to tomorrow. Tomorrow is going to be a long day, man, 250 miles.”
Andretti Global’s Kyle Kirkwood lines up second after a lap of 57.4661 in the No. 27 Sam’s Club Honda.
“P1 both first and second group, and the last one Alex Palou is just a legend and goes faster on his one-lap dash than he did the whole rest of the run, I think,” Kirkwood said. “He made us look silly out there.”
Scott McLaughlin spoiled the Honda party up front, putting the No. 3 PPG Chevrolet third on the grid after a fast lap of 57.4200.
Palou’s CGR teammates Scott Dixon and Kyffin Simpson did not fare as well as their teammate.
Dixon was on a lap that would have allowed him to transfer into the next round of qualifying, when Simpson hit the wall, triggering a red flag which cancelled Dixon’s lap. The No. 9 PNC Bank Honda will start 14th.
Bringing out the red flag penalized Simpson of his two fastest laps so the No. 8 Sunoco Honda will start last in 25th.
Coverage of the Freedom 250 starts at 11:30 a.m. on Fox and IndyCar Radio with the green flag waving in our nation’s capital at 1 p.m.
MARKHAM, ONTARIO (August 15, 2026) – The NTT IndyCar Series is making it’s first visit to a new street circuit in Markham, Ontario but a familiar face topped the speed charts after the first practice.
Four-time Series Champion Alex Palou turned the fastest lap around the 12-turn, 2.19-mile temporary street course, a 1-minute, 14.9915-seconds (100.811 mph) lap in the No. 10 DHL Chip Ganassi Racing Honda.
A.J. Foyt Racing rookie Caio Collett was second quick with a 1-minute, 15.0454-seconds (100.739) in the No. 4 Chevrolet.
Louis Foster was third quick in the No. 45 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda at 1:15.0278 (100.702) followed by Team Penske’s Scott McLaughlin 1:15.2981 (100.401). Will Power rounded out the Top 5 at 1:15.3152 (100.378).
Palou’s Chip Ganassi Racing teammates were not as strong. Six-time Series Champion Scott Dixon was 20th at 1:16.4583 (98.877) in the No. 9 PNC Bank Honda. Kyffin Simpson was 24th at 1.17.3893 (97.688) in the No. 8 Sunoco Honda. Simpson made contact with the wall at Turn 6, causing damage to the rear suspension. Simpson limped to pits for repair and returned to action later in the session.
Practice 2 is set for 2:30 p.m. as delayed track construction forced officials to cancel Friday’s activities and condense Saturday’s schedule. NTT P1 Pole Qualifying is set for 6:30 p.m. ET
MARKHAM, ONTARIO (August 14, 2026) – Issues with the completion of the temporary street circuit in Markham Ontario has forced the NTT INDYCAR SERIES first practice to be moved to Saturday as all of Friday’s on-track activity had to be scrubbed from the schedule.
“INDYCAR is incredibly disappointed that our promoter was not able to complete the track build on time, despite significant support from our team on site,” INDYCAR President J. Douglas Boles said. “Ontario has always been a magnificent market for our sport and the number of spectators that attended today is a shining example of that. New events can always pose logistical challenges and we join in the frustration of our loyal fans and apologize.”
Green Savoree Promotions also issued a statement.
“Ensuring the safety of the drivers and the completion of the certification process of competing on a brand-new racetrack delayed all on-track activities today. Today’s sessions have been rescheduled to Saturday, August 15, to allow for further track preparations.”
“We greatly appreciate all the fans who made it out to the Ontario Honda Dealers Indy at Markham today and chose to spend the day with us. The attendance and support were overwhelming.”
The revamped schedule calls for the first practice to take place at 10:00 a.m. followed by a second practice at 2:30 p.m. and P1 Pole Qualifying at 6:30 p.m.
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