SALINAS, Calif — An unexpected rainstorm that brought forth a lightning delay put Saturday’s on track activity behind this morning. As a result, the lone NTT INDYCAR SERIES practice session of the day was 25-minutes behind schedule.

Still, in the 60-minute session, we saw more incidents for which Christian Lundgaard led the way in the cleanest session of the weekend thus far. The Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing driver turned in a lap of 1:07.6154-seconds in his No. 45 Dallara-Honda.

RLL looks like the class of the field thus far. They went 1-7-12 on Saturday after being 6-7-25 on Friday and 2-4-11 on Thursday.

Rinus VeeKay (1:07.6546-seconds), Alex Palou (1:07.7993-seconds), Alexander Rossi (1:07.8522-seconds), Kyle Kirkwood (1:07.8714-seconds) and Colton Herta (1:07.888-seconds) rounded out the Fast Six.

While RLL looks the best, Andretti and Ganassi also look stout.

Andretti went 5-6-14-17 while Ganassi was 3-8-10-13. That’s 10 Honda’s in the top 14 of the speed chart.

The top Chevy team looks like McLaren. Alexander Rossi was P4 on Saturday as well as P6 on Thursday and P3 on Friday.

The thing is, it’s just too hard though to decide who’s truly quick or not with so much on track carnage.

During Thursday’s test, there was an astounding 11 stoppages. On Friday, the 75-minute-long session, there were five more incidents that brought out the red flag, four of which for cars getting off track.

After having the first 32 minutes clean on Friday, the final 32 minutes saw just 13 minutes of green flag action with the most consecutive minutes of green flag practice being five.

It was one car after another going off course.

Saturday was a little less. There was a 9-minute green flag run early before Pato O’Ward ran off course in Turn 3 and made contact with the tire barriers ending his session early. The green would come back out at 10:42 a.m. locally but only for seven minutes. Will Power got off course again. This time in Turn 8.

At 10:54 a.m. locally, the green was back displayed. It was out for 16 minutes before Santino Ferrucci stalled on course in Turn 2 with smoke trailing from his car. That was the longest green flag stint as the teams got just under 4 minutes of green flag action in the end.

That’s just 35 minutes of green flag time and 25 of red flag.

Due to all this carnage, everyone is guessing. A lot of the laps over the course of both days were in traffic and not much clean track to get a good read on things. With Saturday’s practice only having the Firestone primary tires available, no one knows what to expect for qualifying later on with not many laps turned this weekend on the alternate tires.

The only session they were available for was Friday’s but with that much time under red flag conditions, there wasn’t many laps turned on them.

Juri Vips had an engine problem on Friday and as a result, will take a six-spot grid penalty for an engine change. Agustin Canapino’s No. 78 Dallara-Chevrolet will also have a grid penalty. Now, does Ferrucci join them?