Andretti Global’s Kyle Kirkwood in the No.27 Chili’s Honda was fastest on the opening day of practice at the Firestone Grand Prix of St Petersburg presented by RP Funding setting a fastest time of 01:00.4409s.
Defending NTT INDYCAR SERIES champion Alex Palou in the No.10 DHL Chip Ganassi Racing Honda was second fastest just ahead of Scott McLaughlin who crashed heavily in practice.
Colton Herta was fourth in the No.26 Gainbridge Honda with a time of 01:01.0603s.
Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward was fifth just ahead of Marcus Ericsson and Marcus Armstrong.
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon in the No.9 PNC Bank Honda was eighth fastest just ahead of Josef Newgarden while Will Power rounded out the top ten.
Christian Rasmussen was 11th for Ed Carpenter Racing just ahead of Louis Foster.
Conor Daly who will be in the No.76 Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevrolet as the team will present a new partner for the weekend was 13th fastest with a time of 01:01.6149s.
Alexander Rossi was 14th for Arrow McLaren just ahead of Nolan Siegel and Christian Lundgaard.
Santino Ferrucci was 17th just ahead of Callum Ilott of PREMA Racing.
Felix Rosenqvist was 19th for Meyer Shank Racing just ahead of Graham Rahal who rounded out the top twenty.
David Malukas was 21st just ahead of Kyffin Simpson and Sting Ray Robb. Robert Shwartzman was 24th just ahead of Rinus VeeKay and Devlin DeFrancesco while Jacob Abel rounded out the order.