Dixon leads Honda 1-2-3 in opening IndyCar practice
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| Scott Dixon |
Scott Dixon led a strong showing for the Honda powered cars with a time of 1m08.411s to top opening practice for the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.
Andretti Autosport drivers Ryan Hunter-Reay and Alexander Rossi were close behind in the 2nd and 3rd positions. Honda powered cars were 5 of the 6 fastest cars in this session with only Simon Pagenaud in the Penske Chevy spoiling the party in 4th.
Practice 1 Results
| Pos | No | Name | FTime | Diff | Gap | FSpeed | Engine | Team |
| 1 | 9 | Scott Dixon | 1:08.411 | –.—- | –.—- | 103.562 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing Teams |
| 2 | 28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | 1:08.428 | 0.0173 | 0.0173 | 103.536 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
| 3 | 27 | Alexander Rossi | 1:08.608 | 0.1965 | 0.1792 | 103.265 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
| 4 | 22 | Simon Pagenaud | 1:08.779 | 0.3678 | 0.1713 | 103.008 | Chevy | Team Penske |
| 5 | 5 | James Hinchcliffe | 1:08.913 | 0.5021 | 0.1343 | 102.807 | Honda | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports |
| 6 | 30 | Takuma Sato | 1:08.930 | 0.5183 | 0.0162 | 102.783 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
| 7 | 12 | Will Power | 1:08.948 | 0.5369 | 0.0186 | 102.756 | Chevy | Team Penske |
| 8 | 1 | Josef Newgarden | 1:08.960 | 0.5488 | 0.0119 | 102.738 | Chevy | Team Penske |
| 9 | 14 | Tony Kanaan | 1:08.968 | 0.5563 | 0.0075 | 102.727 | Chevy | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
| 10 | 18 | Sebastien Bourdais | 1:09.127 | 0.7158 | 0.1595 | 102.490 | Honda | Dale Coyne Racing |
| 11 | 15 | Graham Rahal | 1:09.235 | 0.8237 | 0.1079 | 102.330 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
| 12 | 21 | Spencer Pigot | 1:09.257 | 0.8460 | 0.0223 | 102.297 | Chevy | Ed Carpenter Racing |
| 13 | 26 | Zach Veach | 1:09.277 | 0.8654 | 0.0194 | 102.268 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
| 14 | 6 | Robert Wickens | 1:09.281 | 0.8695 | 0.0041 | 102.262 | Honda | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports |
| 15 | 20 | Jordan King | 1:09.360 | 0.9486 | 0.0791 | 102.146 | Chevy | Ed Carpenter Racing |
| 16 | 60 | Jack Harvey | 1:09.603 | 1.1922 | 0.2436 | 101.788 | Honda | Meyer Shank Racing |
| 17 | 10 | Ed Jones | 1:09.606 | 1.1948 | 0.0026 | 101.784 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing Teams |
| 18 | 59 | Max Chilton | 1:09.627 | 1.2159 | 0.0211 | 101.753 | Chevy | Carlin |
| 19 | 19 | Zachary Claman De Melo | 1:09.749 | 1.3374 | 0.1215 | 101.576 | Honda | Dale Coyne Racing |
| 20 | 98 | Marco Andretti | 1:09.763 | 1.3520 | 0.0146 | 101.555 | Honda | Andretti Herta Autosport |
| 21 | 88 | Gabby Chaves | 1:09.818 | 1.4070 | 0.0550 | 101.475 | Chevy | Harding Racing |
| 22 | 23 | Charlie Kimball | 1:10.001 | 1.5898 | 0.1828 | 101.210 | Chevy | Carlin |
| 23 | 4 | Matheus Leist | 1:10.198 | 1.7867 | 0.1969 | 100.926 | Chevy | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
| 24 | 32 | Kyle Kaiser | 1:10.748 | 2.3369 | 0.5502 | 100.141 | Chevy | Juncos Racing |