Milwaukee: Newgarden tops opening IndyCar practice

Josef Newgarden driving for Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing turned the fastest lap in opening practice for Saturday's IndyCar race at the historic 1-mile flat oval in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Newgarden turned at lap at 165.916 mph in his Honda to beat the Chevys of Helio Castroneves (165.268 mph) and EJ Viso (164.021 mph).

Alex Tagliani (Honda) and JR Hildebrand (Chevy) rounded out the top-5 in the incident free session. For being here the first time, Rubens Barrichello was an impressive 6th fastest.

Results

Rank	Car	Driver	Engine	Speed	Diff.	Gap	Laps
1	67	Josef Newgarden	Honda	165.916	0.0000s	0.0000s	48
2	3	Helio Castroneves	Chevy	165.268	0.0863	0.0863	40
3	5	EJ Viso	Chevy	164.021	0.2544	0.1681	67
4	98	Alex Tagliani	Honda	163.377	0.3422	0.0878	55
5	4	JR Hildebrand	Chevy	163.179	0.3694	0.0272	62
6	8	Rubens Barrichello	Chevy	162.285	0.4928	0.1234	66
7	19	James Jakes	Honda	161.810	0.5589	0.0661	52
8	38	Graham Rahal	Honda	161.595	0.5889	0.0300	60
9	15	Takuma Sato	Honda	161.571	0.5922	0.0033	47
10	9	Scott Dixon	Honda	161.568	0.5927	0.0005	27
11	10	Dario Franchitti	Honda	161.461	0.6077	0.0150	36
12	26	Marco Andretti	Chevy	161.449	0.6093	0.0016	25
13	22	Oriol Servia	Chevy	161.101	0.6582	0.0489	39
14	27	James Hinchcliffe	Chevy	160.843	0.6946	0.0364	29
15	18	Justin Wilson	Honda	160.826	0.6970	0.0024	33
16	11	Tony Kanaan	Chevy	160.418	0.7548	0.0578	32
17	2	Ryan Briscoe	Chevy	159.924	0.8252	0.0704	26
18	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Chevy	159.780	0.8458	0.0206	37
19	12	Will Power	Chevy	159.754	0.8495	0.0037	49
20	83	Charlie Kimball	Honda	159.362	0.9058	0.0563	56
21	77	Simon Pagenaud	Honda	158.980	0.9608	0.0550	54
22	14	Mike Conway	Honda	157.372	1.1956	0.2348	36
23	6	Katherine Legge	Chevy	157.339	1.2005	0.0049	52
24	20	Ed Carpenter	Chevy	155.330	1.5009	0.3004	44
25	78	Simona de Silvestro	Lotus	154.897	1.5666	0.0657	41