Power nips de Silvestro to lead practice 2 in Sao Paulo

Will Power on the streets of Sao Paulo

For the fourth consecutive race, Will Power earned the pick of groups for Segment 1 of qualifications by topping the combined practice time chart.

Power, driving the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske car, posted a quick lap of 1 minute, 24.151 seconds on the 2.563-mile street circuit in the second session. Qualifying for the PEAK Performance Pole Award is set up in three segments, with the first segment composed of two groups of 13 cars.

Power was the winner of the inaugural IZOD IndyCar Series race in Brazil in 2010.

Eight different teams were represented in the top 10. HVM Racing second-year driver Simona de Silvestro was 0.0801 of a second behind Power, while Scott Dixon was third (1:24.302) in the No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car.

The top 21 cars were separated by a second.

Results

Rank	Car	Driver	BLT	Diff.	Gap	Laps
1	12	Will Power	1:24.151	–.—-	–.—-	21
2	78	Simona de Silvestro	1:24.231	0.0801	0.0801	23
3	9	Scott Dixon	1:24.302	0.1510	0.0709	25
4	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	1:24.304	0.1530	0.0020	24
5	10	Dario Franchitti	1:24.394	0.2435	0.0905	16
6	3	Helio Castroneves	1:24.439	0.2878	0.0443	24
7	4	JR Hildebrand	1:24.449	0.2982	0.0104	16
8	18	Sebastien Bourdais	1:24.456	0.3054	0.0072	23
9	77	Alex Tagliani	1:24.510	0.3587	0.0533	20
10	82	Tony Kanaan	1:24.513	0.3619	0.0032	22
11	6	Ryan Briscoe	1:24.542	0.3908	0.0289	22
12	7	Danica Patrick	1:24.588	0.4366	0.0458	24
13	27	Mike Conway	1:24.589	0.4380	0.0014	20
14	38	Graham Rahal	1:24.660	0.5096	0.0716	23
15	2	Oriol Servia	1:24.661	0.5104	0.0008	21
16	26	Marco Andretti	1:24.667	0.5158	0.0054	23
17	22	Justin Wilson	1:24.793	0.6419	0.1261	25
18	55	Takuma Sato	1:24.844	0.6932	0.0513	25
19	14	Vitor Meira	1:24.925	0.7741	0.0809	24
20	17	Raphael Matos	1:24.976	0.8247	0.0506	26
21	83	Charlie Kimball	1:25.202	1.0515	0.2268	24
22	34	Sebastian Saavedra	1:25.383	1.2319	0.1804	21
23	18	James Jakes	1:25.394	1.2433	0.0114	8
24	06	James Hinchcliffe	1:25.607	1.4564	0.2131	13
25	24	Ana Beatriz	1:25.843	1.6921	0.2357	24
26	59	EJ Viso	1:26.250	2.0989	0.4068	5