Friday’s Auto Club Speedway Practice Results

Morning practice at ACS was interrupted briefly for a one-car crash, with Justin Wilson hitting the wall. Wilson, winner of the Texas race in June, was working up to speed when his car snapped around and hit the wall. Justin later commented: “I was going into Turn 1, and I was on new tires. I was starting my second lap. I’m not sure why it didn’t stick. It’s disappointing; it set our whole weekend back. We’ll just have to work on trying to get the car ready for tomorrow now."

Leading the speed chart was Ryan Briscoe, followed by Ed Carpenter and Dario Franchitti. Points leader Will power ran 4th, about 8/10 of a second faster than rival Ryan Hunter-Reay (who was 16th on the speed chart).

Simona de Silvestro, in what is (hopefully) the Lotus swan song was a full 3.6 second behind Briscoe's fast lap. This would mean that she'd be lapped in about 8 laps, and no doubt will be quickly pulled off of the track unless a bunch of speed can be found.

Results

Driver

Car No. Best Time In Lap Best Speed Total Laps Difference Gap
Ryan Briscoe 2 00:33.1008 6 217.517 11 –.—- –.—-
Ed Carpenter 20 00:33.1842 5 216.971 21 0.0834 0.0834
Dario Franchitti 10 00:33.2495 8 216.545 9 0.1487 0.0653
Will Power 12 00:33.2651 6 216.443 11 0.1643 0.0156
Helio Castroneves 3 00:33.2787 9 216.355 13 0.1779 0.0136
Scott Dixon 9 00:33.3008 3 216.211 9 0.2000 0.0221
Tony Kanaan 11 00:33.3484 3 215.902 37 0.2476 0.0476
Marco Andretti 26 00:33.4625 28 215.166 33 0.3617 0.1141
JR Hildebrand 4 00:33.5291 21 214.739 23 0.4283 0.0666
Graham Rahal 38 00:33.8624 8 212.625 16 0.7616 0.3333
Katherine Legge 6 00:33.8930 3 212.433 36 0.7922 0.0306
James Hinchcliffe 27 00:33.9226 26 212.248 28 0.8218 0.0296
Justin Wilson 18 00:33.9854 2 211.856 12 0.8846 0.0628
Rubens Barrichello 8 00:33.9949 3 211.796 27 0.8941 0.0095
Charlie Kimball 83 00:34.0648 4 211.362 20 0.9640 0.0699
Ryan Hunter-Reay 28 00:34.0790 18 211.274 19 0.9782 0.0142
Takuma Sato 15 00:34.1331 5 210.939 19 1.0323 0.0541
Simon Pagenaud 77 00:34.2560 23 210.182 30 1.1552 0.1229
E.J. Viso 5 00:34.2830 4 210.017 14 1.1822 0.0270
Sebastian Saavedra 17 00:34.3579 7 209.559 20 1.2571 0.0749
Oriol Servia 22 00:34.3587 9 209.554 27 1.2579 0.0008
James Jakes 19 00:34.4343 14 209.094 26 1.3335 0.0756
Wade Cunningham 14 00:34.5841 8 208.188 28 1.4833 0.1498
Josef Newgarden 67 00:34.9272 2 206.143 3 1.8264 0.3431
Alex Tagliani 98 00:35.2897 11 204.026 15 2.1889 0.3625
Simona de Silvestro 78 00:36.7714 7 195.804 9 3.6706 1.4817