Pagenaud tops opening practice in Phoenix
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| Simon Pagenaud |
Team Penske's Simon Pagenaud turned the fastest lap in opening practice for the IndyCars on the 1-mile Phoenix oval with a speed of 182.375 mph.
Tony Kanaan was 2nd quick to lead a Chevy 1-2 while the Honda's of Sebastien Bourdais, Ryan Hunter-Reay and Alexander Rossi rounded out the top-5.
Results
| Pos | No | Name | FTime | Diff | Gap | FSpeed | Engine | Team |
| 1 | 22 | Simon Pagenaud | 20.174 | –.—- | –.—- | 182.375 | Chevy | Team Penske |
| 2 | 14 | Tony Kanaan | 20.181 | 0.0069 | 0.0069 | 182.313 | Chevy | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
| 3 | 18 | Sebastien Bourdais | 20.200 | 0.0263 | 0.0194 | 182.138 | Honda | Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan |
| 4 | 28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | 20.214 | 0.0405 | 0.0142 | 182.010 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
| 5 | 27 | Alexander Rossi | 20.229 | 0.0548 | 0.0143 | 181.881 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
| 6 | 5 | James Hinchcliffe | 20.235 | 0.0611 | 0.0063 | 181.824 | Honda | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports |
| 7 | 10 | Ed Jones | 20.319 | 0.1448 | 0.0837 | 181.075 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing Teams |
| 8 | 1 | Josef Newgarden | 20.335 | 0.1610 | 0.0162 | 180.931 | Chevy | Team Penske |
| 9 | 4 | Matheus Leist | 20.372 | 0.1978 | 0.0368 | 180.604 | Chevy | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
| 10 | 6 | Robert Wickens | 20.416 | 0.2426 | 0.0448 | 180.208 | Honda | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports |
| 11 | 9 | Scott Dixon | 20.495 | 0.3212 | 0.0786 | 179.517 | Honda | Chip Ganassi Racing Teams |
| 12 | 12 | Will Power | 20.538 | 0.3643 | 0.0431 | 179.140 | Chevy | Team Penske |
| 13 | 32 | Kyle Kaiser | 20.607 | 0.4332 | 0.0689 | 178.541 | Chevy | Juncos Racing |
| 14 | 19 | Pietro Fittipaldi | 20.657 | 0.4833 | 0.0501 | 178.108 | Honda | Dale Coyne Racing |
| 15 | 98 | Marco Andretti | 20.690 | 0.5162 | 0.0329 | 177.825 | Honda | Andretti Autosport with Curb-Agajanian |
| 16 | 21 | Spencer Pigot | 20.715 | 0.5414 | 0.0252 | 177.609 | Chevy | Ed Carpenter Racing |
| 17 | 15 | Graham Rahal | 20.756 | 0.5823 | 0.0409 | 177.259 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
| 18 | 30 | Takuma Sato | 20.766 | 0.5920 | 0.0097 | 177.176 | Honda | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
| 19 | 88 | Gabby Chaves | 20.860 | 0.6858 | 0.0938 | 176.379 | Chevy | Harding Racing |
| 20 | 20 | Ed Carpenter | 20.927 | 0.7535 | 0.0677 | 175.809 | Chevy | Ed Carpenter Racing |
| 21 | 26 | Zach Veach | 21.102 | 0.9279 | 0.1744 | 174.356 | Honda | Andretti Autosport |
| 22 | 23 | Charlie Kimball | 21.134 | 0.9600 | 0.0321 | 174.091 | Chevy | Carlin |
| 23 | 59 | Max Chilton | 21.419 | 1.2457 | 0.2857 | 171.769 | Chevy | Carlin |