IndyCar Barber: McLaughlin tops incident-packed first practice

Inevitably, after a warm-up lap at the start of the session, the veterans parked and let the rookies use their extra set of primary tires to clean the track and add grip to the surface already baptized with Firestone rubber thanks to the Indy NXT cars on track earlier in the afternoon.
Despite a lurid moment at Turn 9 in his #11 Chip Ganassi Racing entry, Marcus Armstrong was the first to lap …Keep reading