Watkins Glen: Wheldon tops 1st practice, Servia crashes

Dan Wheldon led a Target Chip Ganassi Racing 1-2 in the opening practice Friday for the IndyCars. Tony Kanaan was 3rd ahead of Helio Castroneves who sat on the pole the previous 3 years.

Oriol Servia rounded out the top-5 despite spinning and lightly tapping the guardrail when he spun at the top of the hill at Turn 15.

Results

Pos	Driver Name	Best Time	Best Speed	Best Lap	Total Laps
1	Dan Wheldon (10)	1:30.6586	133.821	10	22
2	Scott Dixon (9)	1:30.8769	133.499	16	22
3	Tony Kanaan (11)	1:30.9140	133.445	19	24
4	Helio Castroneves (3)	1:31.0710	133.215	21	25
5	Oriol Servia (5)	1:31.1942	133.035	16	19
6	Buddy Rice (15)	1:31.2580	132.942	25	27
7	Ryan Briscoe (6)	1:31.3227	132.848	20	26
8	Vitor Meira (4)	1:31.5452	132.525	27	27
9	Will Power (8)	1:31.6105	132.430	12	12
10	Darren Manning (14)	1:31.8428	132.095	25	27
11	Bruno Junqueira (18)	1:31.9507	131.940	22	22
12	Marco Andretti (26)	1:31.9566	131.932	8	19
13	Justin Wilson (02)	1:32.0504	131.797	16	17
14	Ryan Hunter-Reay (17)	1:32.2318	131.538	13	22
15	EJ Viso (33)	1:32.4613	131.212	22	22
16	Hideki Mutoh (27)	1:32.5050	131.150	14	19
17	Danica Patrick (7)	1:32.5055	131.149	21	23
18	Graham Rahal (06)	1:32.6289	130.974	24	25
19	A.J. Foyt IV (2)	1:33.0476	130.385	26	32
20	Mario Dominguez (96)	1:33.9315	129.158	18	19
21	Ed Carpenter (20)	1:34.2362	128.740	21	28
22	Enrique Bernoldi (36)	1:34.3057	128.645	10	11
23	Jay Howard (24)	1:35.2493	127.371	21	22
24	Jaime Camara (34)	1:36.6440	125.533	10	12
25	Milka Duno (23)	1:38.0351	123.752	27	28
26	Mario Moraes (19)	1:38.4016	123.291	6	6