INDIANAPOLIS — Less than two weeks after his IndyCar career began with a testing crash, Dale Coyne Racing rookie and 2025 Indy NXT champ Dennis Hauger topped the timing charts for Monday’s seven-car test on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.
But perhaps more importantly than the chart-topping lap of 1:10.768 — fractions of a second quicker than second-fastest Alexander Rossi (1:10.858) and attention-grabbing debutant Mick Schumacher (1:10.980) — are the double-digit hours in the car the "Norwegian Nightmare" has managed to accumulate less than a month into his tenure as Coyne’s newest driver and (for now, at least) the series lone 2026 IndyCar rookie.