IndyCar: Power leads opening IndyCar practice in Fontana
Will Power |
Will Power set fast time in opening Verizon IndyCar Series practice for the MAVTV 500 at Auto Club Speedway. With a lap of 221.389 mph, the series championship leader clocked in 0.0051 seconds ahead of teammate Helio Castroneves, who enters the series finale 51 points behind the Aussie.
2012 ACS winner Ed Carpenter was third. Target Chip Ganassi Racing teammates Scott Dixon and Tony Kanaan clocked in fourth and fifth respectively, completing a Chevrolet sweep of the top-5. Mikhail Aleshin was the lead Honda in sixth.
Next up will be qualifying at 2:15 p.m. local time.
Results
Pos | No | Name | Time | Diff | Gap | FL | Laps | Speed | Engine |
1 | 12 | Will Power | 32.522 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 2 | 9 | 221.389 | Chevy |
2 | 3 | Helio Castroneves | 32.527 | 0.0051 | 0.0051 | 2 | 9 | 221.354 | Chevy |
3 | 20 | Ed Carpenter | 32.815 | 0.2928 | 0.2877 | 2 | 31 | 219.413 | Chevy |
4 | 9 | Scott Dixon | 32.828 | 0.3058 | 0.0130 | 2 | 14 | 219.326 | Chevy |
5 | 10 | Tony Kanaan | 32.833 | 0.3112 | 0.0054 | 2 | 15 | 219.290 | Chevy |
6 | 83 | Charlie Kimball | 32.842 | 0.3195 | 0.0083 | 7 | 13 | 219.235 | Chevy |
7 | 7 | Mikhail Aleshin | 32.945 | 0.4233 | 0.1038 | 4 | 38 | 218.544 | Honda |
8 | 2 | Juan Pablo Montoya | 32.961 | 0.4390 | 0.0157 | 10 | 17 | 218.440 | Chevy |
9 | 67 | Josef Newgarden | 32.964 | 0.4420 | 0.0030 | 2 | 46 | 218.420 | Honda |
10 | 8 | Ryan Briscoe | 32.970 | 0.4482 | 0.0062 | 12 | 13 | 218.379 | Chevy |
11 | 28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | 32.971 | 0.4490 | 0.0008 | 18 | 31 | 218.374 | Honda |
12 | 77 | Simon Pagenaud | 32.981 | 0.4593 | 0.0103 | 4 | 40 | 218.306 | Honda |
13 | 27 | James Hinchcliffe | 33.051 | 0.5287 | 0.0694 | 14 | 22 | 217.847 | Honda |
14 | 34 | Carlos Munoz | 33.074 | 0.5520 | 0.0233 | 3 | 19 | 217.694 | Honda |
15 | 25 | Marco Andretti | 33.130 | 0.6076 | 0.0556 | 4 | 24 | 217.328 | Honda |
16 | 11 | Sebastien Bourdais | 33.193 | 0.6708 | 0.0632 | 3 | 34 | 216.915 | Chevy |
17 | 15 | Graham Rahal | 33.200 | 0.6779 | 0.0071 | 7 | 40 | 216.868 | Honda |
18 | 14 | Takuma Sato | 33.208 | 0.6860 | 0.0081 | 27 | 34 | 216.815 | Honda |
19 | 19 | Justin Wilson | 33.285 | 0.7628 | 0.0768 | 3 | 42 | 216.315 | Honda |
20 | 98 | Jack Hawksworth | 33.342 | 0.8198 | 0.0570 | 44 | 45 | 215.945 | Honda |
21 | 17 | Sebastian Saavedra | 33.388 | 0.8660 | 0.0462 | 27 | 36 | 215.646 | Chevy |
22 | 18 | Carlos Huertas | 34.042 | 1.5203 | 0.6543 | 47 | 49 | 211.502 | Honda |