news: All four Penskes make Fast 9, Hinchcliffe bumped

Helio Castroneves topped the first day of qualifying but James Hinchcliffe’s 2018 Indianapolis 500 campaign could already over after he failed to make the top 33.

Castroneves will be joined by his four Team Penske team-mates in Sunday’s (local time) Fast 9 after Simon Pagenaud (#22 Chevrolet) finished the day third, Will Power (#12 Chevrolet) fourth, and Josef Newgarden (#1 Chevrolet) seventh.

The Brazilian and his signature #3 were fastest with a four-lap average speed of 228.919mph (368.409km/h) in what is set to be his second and final IndyCar race meeting this year.

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Hinchcliffe had not made a qualifying attempt before a rain delay of approximately two hours and could only manage an average of 224.784mph (361.755km/h) when the #5 Schmidt Peterson Honda was the first car back on-track.

He aborted a second run due to what he described on his radio as a “wicked vibration”, and ran out of time to make a third run.

The 2016 Indianapolis 500 pole-sitter could still take the start in just over a week’s time given that the car qualifies for the race, as opposed to the driver.

There was better news for Ed Carpenter Racing with all three of its drivers making the Fast 9, namely Carpenter himself (#20 Chevrolet) in second, Spencer Pigot (#21 Chevrolet), and Danica Patrick (#13 Chevrolet) in what is set to be her racing swansong.

Honda’s only drivers on the first three rows of the grid will be Sebastien Bourdais (#18 DCR w/ Vasser-Sullivan) and Scott Dixon (#9 Chip Ganassi).

James Davison just made it into the top 33 only a day after crashing the #33 Foyt w/ Byrd-Hollinger-Belardi Chevrolet in practice.

Pole Day begins with separate practice sessions for the cars which will start in positions 10 to 33 and those in the Fast 9.

The former group will then qualify on Monday morning from 0445 AEST, and the latter from 0700.

Highlights: Bump Day

Results: Bump Day Qualifying

Pos	Num	Driver	C/E/T	Lap 1	Lap 2	Lap 3	Lap 4	Total time	Avg speed (mph)	Qual on	Status
1	3	Helio Castroneves	D/C/F	39.3460	39.2828	39.2875	39.3444	2:37.2607	228.919	Day 1
2	20	Ed Carpenter	D/C/F	39.2557	39.3170	39.3552	39.4888	2:37.4167	228.692	Day 1
3	22	Simon Pagenaud	D/C/F	39.4325	39.3977	39.4066	39.4477	2:37.6845	228.304	Day 1
4	12	Will Power	D/C/F	39.4830	39.4398	39.4305	39.4071	2:37.7604	228.194	Day 1
5	18	Sebastien Bourdais	D/H/F	39.4156	39.4224	39.5001	39.4941	2:37.8322	228.090	Day 1
6	21	Spencer Pigot	D/C/F	39.4337	39.4239	39.4618	39.5394	2:37.8588	228.052	Day 1
7	1	Josef Newgarden	D/C/F	39.4263	39.4308	39.4464	39.5573	2:37.8608	228.049	Day 1
8	9	Scott Dixon	D/H/F	39.4394	39.4830	39.5551	39.5682	2:38.0457	227.782	Day 1
9	13	Danica Patrick	D/C/F	39.4684	39.5436	39.5527	39.6007	2:38.1654	227.610	Day 1
10	27	Alexander Rossi	D/H/F	39.4294	39.5200	39.6090	39.6412	2:38.1996	227.561	Day 1
11	14	Tony Kanaan	D/C/F	39.6028	39.5189	39.5403	39.5743	2:38.2363	227.508	Day 1
12	4	Matheus Leist	D/C/F	39.5120	39.6111	39.5717	39.5878	2:38.2826	227.441	Day 1
13	10	Ed Jones	D/H/F	39.5935	39.6425	39.6612	39.6969	2:38.5941	226.995	Day 1
14	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	D/H/F	39.5556	39.6166	39.7279	39.7237	2:38.6238	226.952	Day 1
15	29	Carlos Munoz	D/H/F	39.6732	39.7171	39.7207	39.7592	2:38.8702	226.600	Day 1
16	66	JR Hildebrand	D/C/F	39.6965	39.6848	39.7542	39.8054	2:38.9409	226.499	Day 1
17	98	Marco Andretti	D/H/F	39.7218	39.8197	39.7832	39.8590	2:39.1837	226.154	Day 1
18	7	Jay Howard	D/H/F	39.7591	39.7870	39.8063	39.8709	2:39.2233	226.098	Day 1
19	24	Sage Karam	D/C/F	39.8609	39.7629	39.7871	39.8350	2:39.2459	226.065	Day 1
20	6	Robert Wickens	D/H/F	39.7459	39.8424	39.8592	39.8766	2:39.3241	225.955	Day 1
21	32	Kyle Kaiser	D/C/F	39.7450	39.8074	39.8642	39.9222	2:39.3388	225.934	Day 1
22	25	Stefan Wilson	D/H/F	39.7846	39.8047	39.8599	39.9069	2:39.3561	225.909	Day 1
23	88	Gabby Chaves	D/C/F	39.7941	39.8300	39.8761	39.9271	2:39.4273	225.808	Day 1
24	26	Zach Veach	D/H/F	39.7337	39.8180	39.9202	39.9579	2:39.4298	225.805	Day 1
25	23	Charlie Kimball	D/C/F	39.7501	39.8494	39.9953	39.8725	2:39.4673	225.752	Day 1
26	19	Zachary Claman DeMelo	D/H/F	39.8091	39.8800	39.8841	39.9149	2:39.4881	225.722	Day 1
27	60	Jack Harvey	D/H/F	39.7996	39.8525	39.9158	39.9215	2:39.4894	225.720	Day 1
28	59	Max Chilton	D/C/F	39.8661	39.8524	39.8671	39.9419	2:39.5275	225.666	Day 1
29	30	Takuma Sato	D/H/F	39.7577	39.8607	40.1544	39.8634	2:39.6362	225.513	Day 1
30	15	Graham Rahal	D/H/F	39.9401	39.9292	39.9339	39.9082	2:39.7114	225.407	Day 1
31	64	Oriol Servia	D/H/F	39.9216	39.9581	39.9219	40.1937	2:39.9953	225.007	Day 1
32	17	Conor Daly	D/H/F	39.9928	40.0111	40.0315	40.0543	2:40.0897	224.874	Day 1
33	33	James Davison	D/C/F	39.9033	39.9934	40.0588	40.1884	2:40.1439	224.798	Day 1	On Bubble
34	9	Scott Dixon	D/H/F	39.5344	39.5292	39.5404	39.5747	2:38.1787	227.591	Day 1	Retired
35	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	D/H/F	39.6541	39.6726	39.6538	39.6682	2:38.6487	226.916	Day 1	Retired
36	6	Robert Wickens	D/H/F	39.7550	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000	0:39.7550	226.387	Day 1	No Attempt
37	27	Alexander Rossi	D/H/F	39.6725	39.5854	39.7919	40.0933	2:39.1431	226.212	Day 1	Retired
38	60	Jack Harvey	D/H/F	39.9106	39.9438	39.9739	40.0065	2:39.8348	225.233	Day 1	Retired
39	15	Graham Rahal	D/H/F	39.9211	39.9389	39.9738	40.0473	2:39.8811	225.167	Day 1	Failed Attempt
40	5	James Hinchcliffe	D/H/F	39.9378	40.0206	40.1031	40.0926	2:40.1541	224.784	Day 1	Withdrawn
41	17	Conor Daly	D/H/F	39.9498	40.0617	40.0995	40.0769	2:40.1879	224.736	Day 1	Withdrawn
42	63	Pippa Mann	D/H/F	40.0303	40.0467	40.1535	40.2260	2:40.4565	224.360	Day 1	Withdrawn
43	63	Pippa Mann	D/H/F	40.1200	40.1771	40.2679	40.3967	2:40.9617	223.656	Day 1	Waved Off
44	63	Pippa Mann	D/H/F	40.1929	40.3275	40.3347	40.3320	2:41.1871	223.343	Day 1	Failed Attempt
45	17	Conor Daly	D/H/F	40.0243	40.5358	40.4942	40.6099	2:41.6642	222.684	Day 1	Withdrawn
46	64	Oriol Servia	D/H/F	40.5583	40.8462	41.2861	0.0000	2:02.6906	220.066	Day 1	Waved Off
47	64	Oriol Servia	D/H/F	44.6739	45.8510	46.2987	0.0000	2:16.8236	197.334	Day 1	Waved Off
48	5	James Hinchcliffe	D/H/F	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000	0:00.0000		Day 1	No Attempt