Long Beach: Penske team runs 1-2-3-4 in final IndyCar practice

Will Power
Will Power

Will Power led a Team Penske Chevy sweep of the IndyCar final practice ahead of qualifying this afternoon for the 42nd Toyota GP of Long Beach. Power was the only driver in the 1m – 6 sec bracket at 1,06.889s.

Points leader Simon Pagenaud was 2nd fastest followed by Penske teammates Helio Castroneves and Juan Montoya.

Honda drivers Mikhail Aleshin and Graham Rahal were 5th and 6th.

There was a late red in the session when Rahal hit the inside curb at the apex for the righthander at the end of the backstraight.

The Andretti team was still out to lunch with all four cars 15th or worse.

Results

Pos No Name Time Diff Gap FL Laps Speed Engine
1 12 Will Power 1:06.889 0.000 0.000 10 10 105.918 Chevy
2 22 Simon Pagenaud 1:07.116 0.2270 0.2270 15 17 105.560 Chevy
3 3 Helio Castroneves 1:07.263 0.3743 0.1473 13 16 105.329 Chevy
4 2 Juan Pablo Montoya 1:07.316 0.4265 0.0522 14 17 105.247 Chevy
5 7 Mikhail Aleshin 1:07.395 0.5057 0.0792 14 16 105.124 Honda
6 15 Graham Rahal 1:07.407 0.5174 0.0117 18 22 105.105 Honda
7 21 Josef Newgarden 1:07.414 0.5249 0.0075 17 19 105.094 Chevy
8 5 James Hinchcliffe 1:07.490 0.6005 0.0756 11 13 104.976 Honda
9 11 Sebastien Bourdais 1:07.539 0.6494 0.0489 18 19 104.900 Chevy
10 9 Scott Dixon 1:07.595 0.7060 0.0566 13 17 104.812 Chevy
11 41 Jack Hawksworth 1:07.614 0.7247 0.0187 12 14 104.783 Honda
12 83 Charlie Kimball 1:07.619 0.7295 0.0048 14 19 104.776 Chevy
13 10 Tony Kanaan 1:07.713 0.8242 0.0947 11 18 104.629 Chevy
14 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay 1:07.719 0.8298 0.0056 8 15 104.621 Honda
15 26 Carlos Munoz 1:07.828 0.9384 0.1086 10 18 104.453 Honda
16 14 Takuma Sato 1:08.028 1.1392 0.2008 7 15 104.145 Honda
17 27 Marco Andretti 1:08.078 1.1891 0.0499 16 16 104.068 Honda
18 8 Max Chilton 1:08.102 1.2124 0.0233 17 19 104.033 Chevy
19 19 Luca Filippi 1:08.180 1.2913 0.0789 18 18 103.912 Honda
20 18 Conor Daly 1:08.275 1.3860 0.0947 17 18 103.768 Honda
21 98 Alexander Rossi 1:08.389 1.5000 0.1140 8 19 103.595 Honda