Race No. 16
Toyota Grand Prix of Monterey
Monterey — California
September 5 — September 7, 1997
Saturday Individual Practice Report
| car | driver | laptime | mph | km/h | % best time |
| 8X | Bryan Herta | 68.853 | 117.015 | 188.276 | 100.00% |
| 4 | Alex Zanardi | 69.236 | 116.367 | 187.235 | 100.56% |
| 99X | Greg Moore | 69.372 | 116.139 | 186.868 | 100.75% |
| 40 | Raul Boesel | 69.573 | 115.804 | 186.328 | 101.05% |
| 5 | Gil de Ferran | 69.593 | 115.770 | 186.274 | 101.07% |
| 7 | Bobby Rahal | 69.673 | 115.637 | 186.060 | 101.19% |
| 9X | Dario Franchitti | 69.893 | 115.273 | 185.475 | 101.51% |
| 17 | Mauricio Gugelmin | 69.940 | 115.196 | 185.350 | 101.58% |
| 1 | Jimmy Vasser | 70.241 | 114.702 | 184.556 | 102.02% |
| 19 | Michel Jourdain Jr. | 70.246 | 114.694 | 184.543 | 102.02% |
| 27 | Parker Johnstone | 70.267 | 114.660 | 184.488 | 102.05% |
| 18 | Mark Blundell | 70.277 | 114.643 | 184.461 | 102.07% |
| 11 | Christian Fittipaldi | 70.304 | 114.599 | 184.391 | 102.11% |
| 9 | Dario Franchitti | 70.411 | 114.425 | 184.110 | 102.26% |
| 77 | Gualter Salles | 70.428 | 114.398 | 184.066 | 102.29% |
| 6X | Michael Andretti | 70.478 | 114.317 | 183.935 | 102.36% |
| 25 | Max Papis | 70.483 | 114.308 | 183.922 | 102.37% |
| 31 | Andre Ribeiro | 70.711 | 113.940 | 183.329 | 102.70% |
| 3 | Paul Tracy | 70.801 | 113.795 | 183.096 | 102.83% |
| 21 | Richie Hearn | 70.860 | 113.700 | 182.944 | 102.91% |
| 16 | Partick Carpentier | 71.041 | 113.411 | 182.478 | 103.18% |
| 2 | Al Unser Jr. | 71.106 | 113.307 | 182.311 | 103.27% |
| 32 | Adrian Fernandez | 71.250 | 113.078 | 181.942 | 103.48% |
| 36 | Juan Manuel Fangio II | 71.268 | 113.049 | 181.896 | 103.51% |
| 98 | PJ Jones | 71.862 | 112.115 | 180.393 | 104.37% |
| 24 | Hiro Matsushita | 72.505 | 111.121 | 178.793 | 105.30% |
| 3X | Paul Tracy | 73.611 | 109.451 | 176.107 | 106.91% |
| 64 | Dennis Vitolo | 74.073 | 108.768 | 175.008 | 107.58% |
| 34 | Charlie Nearburg | 75.167 | 107.185 | 172.461 | 109.17% |