Bourdais leads opening Portland practice
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| Sebastien Bourdais |
Dale Coyne Racing's Sebastien Bourdais placed the No. 18 Honda atop the time sheets in today's opening practice for the Grand Prix of Portland at Portland International Raceway. Series championship leader Scott Dixon was second, with Josef Newgarden, Marco Andretti and Will Power rounding out the top-five.
The Verizon IndyCar Series will be back on track at 5:35 Eastern Time for Practice 2.
RESULTS
| P | No | Name | FTime | Diff | Gap | Laps | FSpeed | Engine | Team |
| 1 | 18 | Sebastien Bourdais | 57.398 | –.—- | –.—- | 16 | 123.183 | Honda | Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan |
| 2 | 9 | Scott Dixon | 57.422 | 0.0246 | 0.0246 | 13 | 123.130 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing Teams |
| 3 | 1 | Josef Newgarden | 57.584 | 0.1861 | 0.1615 | 16 | 122.785 | Chevy | Team Penske |
| 4 | 98 | Marco Andretti | 57.711 | 0.3139 | 0.1278 | 18 | 122.513 | Honda | Andretti Herta Autosport with Curb-Agajanian |
| 5 | 12 | Will Power | 57.766 | 0.3688 | 0.0549 | 17 | 122.397 | Chevy | Team Penske |
| 6 | 20 | Jordan King | 57.787 | 0.3898 | 0.0210 | 18 | 122.352 | Chevy | Ed Carpenter Racing |
| 7 | 27 | Alexander Rossi | 57.789 | 0.3917 | 0.0019 | 21 | 122.348 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
| 8 | 30 | Takuma Sato | 57.791 | 0.3940 | 0.0023 | 18 | 122.343 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
| 9 | 10 | Ed Jones | 57.882 | 0.4841 | 0.0901 | 17 | 122.153 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing Teams |
| 10 | 26 | Zach Veach | 57.976 | 0.5787 | 0.0946 | 16 | 121.953 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
| 11 | 60 | Jack Harvey | 57.981 | 0.5831 | 0.0044 | 19 | 121.944 | Honda | Meyer Shank Racing with SPM |
| 12 | 39 | Santino Ferrucci | 57.997 | 0.5994 | 0.0163 | 20 | 121.910 | Honda | Dale Coyne Racing |
| 13 | 59 | Max Chilton | 58.046 | 0.6489 | 0.0495 | 20 | 121.806 | Chevy | Carlin |
| 14 | 22 | Simon Pagenaud | 58.067 | 0.6697 | 0.0208 | 20 | 121.762 | Chevy | Team Penske |
| 15 | 28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | 58.090 | 0.6923 | 0.0226 | 16 | 121.715 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
| 16 | 15 | Graham Rahal | 58.106 | 0.7084 | 0.0161 | 18 | 121.681 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
| 17 | 88 | Gabby Chaves | 58.127 | 0.7290 | 0.0206 | 21 | 121.638 | Chevy | Harding Racing |
| 18 | 5 | James Hinchcliffe | 58.228 | 0.8306 | 0.1016 | 18 | 121.426 | Honda | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports |
| 19 | 21 | Spencer Pigot | 58.285 | 0.8880 | 0.0574 | 18 | 121.306 | Chevy | Ed Carpenter Racing |
| 20 | 4 | Matheus Leist | 58.377 | 0.9797 | 0.0917 | 28 | 121.116 | Chevy | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
| 21 | 23 | Charlie Kimball | 58.390 | 0.9922 | 0.0125 | 17 | 121.090 | Chevy | Carlin |
| 22 | 6 | Carlos Munoz | 58.495 | 1.0979 | 0.1057 | 17 | 120.871 | Honda | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports |
| 23 | 14 | Tony Kanaan | 58.520 | 1.1222 | 0.0243 | 19 | 120.821 | Chevy | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
| 24 | 32 | Alfonso Celis Jr | 58.965 | 1.5679 | 0.4457 | 20 | 119.908 | Chevy | Juncos Racing |
| 25 | 19 | Pietro Fittipaldi | No Time | — | — | — | — | Honda | Dale Coyne Racing |