#HIGPA: Final warmup

On his final lap of the session, Simon Pagenaud claimed the top spot in this morning’s warmup for the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama at Barber Motorsports Park (2 p.m. ET, NBC Sports Network). Pagenaud, who starts 10th today and made his IZOD IndyCar Series debut one year ago at this track, threw down a lap of 71.2414 seconds in his No. 77 HP-Schmidt/Hamilton Motorsports Honda.

Following the Frenchman were Will Power, Takuma Sato, pole sitter Helio Castroneves and Graham Rahal, who has promised to kiss “The Lady of the Lake” — Barber’s latest addition to the array of unique sculptures around its 2.4-mile road course — if he wins this afternoon.

Unfortunately, Lotus’ engine woes continued this morning as Sebastien Bourdais’ engine let go according to Dragon Racing team owner Jay Penske on the IMS Radio Network/INDYCAR.com broadcast. This may wind up being the third engine change for Lotus this week, as Oriol Servia had to switch following Friday’s practice and Alex Tagliani needed a new motor following last weekend’s event in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Both Servia and Tagliani are effectively starting from the back of the field today due to the 10-spot penalty for unapproved engine changes. Bourdais is supposed to start 17th today.

Here are the times from this morning:

Rank Car Driver Engine Diff. BL LL Gap TL BL#
1 Simon Pagenaud Honda Logo 0 1:11.2414 1:11.2414 0 15 15
2 Will Power Chevy Logo 0.3368 1:11.5782 1:13.2445 0.3368 18 4
3 Takuma Sato Honda Logo 0.4513 1:11.6927 1:14.2632 0.1145 16 14
4 Helio Castroneves Chevy Logo 0.6909 1:11.9323 1:13.4263 0.2396 17 11
5 Graham Rahal Honda Logo 0.7961 1:12.0375 1:13.3081 0.1052 18 12
6 Scott Dixon Honda Logo 0.8055 1:12.0469 1:13.8406 0.0094 13 9
7 JR Hildebrand Chevy Logo 0.8752 1:12.1166 1:13.0516 0.0697 18 17
8 Mike Conway Honda Logo 0.9265 1:12.1679 1:13.0411 0.0513 18 12
9 Marco Andretti Chevy Logo 1.0462 1:12.2876 1:13.3542 0.1197 15 5
10 Tony Kanaan Chevy Logo 1.0711 1:12.3125 1:13.5095 0.0249 15 6
11 Rubens Barrichello Chevy Logo 1.1088 1:12.3502 1:13.2218 0.0377 18 15
12 Ryan Briscoe Chevy Logo 1.2912 1:12.5326 1:14.0683 0.1824 18 10
13 James Hinchcliffe Chevy Logo 1.3568 1:12.5982 1:26.1305 0.0656 16 4
14 Dario Franchitti Honda Logo 1.4397 1:12.6811 1:12.8760 0.0829 13 12
15 Ryan Hunter-Reay Chevy Logo 1.4771 1:12.7185 1:14.1105 0.0374 14 8
16 James Jakes Honda Logo 1.4777 1:12.7191 1:13.8061 0.0006 15 7
17 Josef Newgarden Honda Logo 1.5406 1:12.7820 1:12.7820 0.0629 18 18
18 Simona de Silvestro Lotus Logo 1.8446 1:13.0860 1:13.8829 0.3040 16 6
19 Alex Tagliani Lotus Logo 1.8586 1:13.1000 1:14.1128 0.0140 17 10
20 Charlie Kimball Honda Logo 1.9349 1:13.1763 1:13.2981 0.0763 14 11
21 Justin Wilson Honda Logo 1.9799 1:13.2213 1:13.6109 0.0450 13 9
22 Oriol Servia Lotus Logo 2.2357 1:13.4771 1:14.0763 0.2558 14 12
23 EJ Viso Chevy Logo 2.3927 1:13.6341 1:14.3525 0.1570 17 5
24 Ed Carpenter Chevy Logo 3.9004 1:15.1418 1:15.3278 1.5077 10 5
25 Katherine Legge Lotus Logo 4.2719 1:15.5133 1:18.5973 0.3715 14 10
26 Sebastien Bourdais Lotus Logo 5:26.7342 6:37.9756 6:37.9756 5:22.4623 2 2