Hunter-Reay tops opening IndyCar practice in Toronto

Ryan Hunter-Reay

Defending series champion Ryan Hunter-Reay turned the fastest lap to lead opening practice for the Honda Indy Toronto Friday morning in his Chevy. His lap of 1m00.6082s was enough to beat a late charge by Josef Newgarden by 0.07 seconds. James Jakes was second most of the session but did not put on new tires at the end of the session and fell to 8th. Ryan Briscoe was third for Panther Racing.

The session was interrupted by several off-track excursions, two by Dario Franchitti who ended up clipping the wall and breaking his right front wheel that resulted in a lengthy red flag. Will Power also nosed it gently into the tires at the end of the long backstraight but did no damage.

Rookie Tristan Vautier was 4th and Marco Andretti rounded out the top-5.

Will Power, Tony Kanaan, James Jakes, Dario Franchitti and Sebastien Bourdais rounded out the top 10.

Results

Pos Driver No. Time In Lap Speed Laps Difference Gap
1 Ryan Hunter-Reay 1 01:00.6082 31 104.243 31 –.—- –.—-
2 Josef Newgarden 67 01:00.6851 31 104.111 31 0.0769 0.0769
3 Ryan Briscoe 4 01:00.6890 37 104.105 37 0.0808 0.0039
4 Tristan Vautier 55 01:00.7016 37 104.083 37 0.0934 0.0126
5 Marco Andretti 25 01:00.7174 25 104.056 25 0.1092 0.0158
6 Will Power 12 01:00.8987 31 103.746 31 0.2905 0.1813
7 Tony Kanaan 11 01:00.9041 36 103.737 42 0.2959 0.0054
8 James Jakes 16 01:00.9096 10 103.727 33 0.3014 0.0055
9 Dario Franchitti 10 01:00.9518 8 103.656 25 0.3436 0.0422
10 Sebastien Bourdais 7 01:00.9535 30 103.653 31 0.3453 0.0017
11 James Hinchcliffe 27 01:00.9556 21 103.649 21 0.3474 0.0021
12 Scott Dixon 9 01:00.9660 21 103.632 28 0.3578 0.0104
13 Justin Wilson 19 01:00.9713 32 103.623 32 0.3631 0.0053
14 Alex Tagliani 98 01:00.9989 24 103.576 25 0.3907 0.0276
15 Charlie Kimball 83 01:01.1137 27 103.381 27 0.5055 0.1148
16 Helio Castroneves 3 01:01.1784 14 103.272 30 0.5702 0.0647
17 Graham Rahal 15 01:01.3196 25 103.034 42 0.7114 0.1412
18 E.J. Viso 5 01:01.3598 18 102.966 26 0.7516 0.0402
19 Sebastian Saavedra 6 01:01.7237 33 102.359 33 1.1155 0.3639
20 Takuma Sato 14 01:01.7904 23 102.249 23 1.1822 0.0667
21 Simona De Silvestro 78 01:01.8553 32 102.142 33 1.2471 0.0649
22 Simon Pagenaud 77 01:01.9192 31 102.036 32 1.3110 0.0639
23 Mike Conway 18 01:02.0817 28 101.769 35 1.4735 0.1625
24 Ed Carpenter 20 01:02.9043 23 100.438 32 2.2961 0.8226