Detroit: Kanaan leads Chevy sweep of top 8 in opening practice
Tony Kanaan has led the opening practice for the Verizon IndyCar Series’ Chevrolet Dual in Detroit Presented by Quicken Loans.
Kanaan, in the Taylor Swift THE 1989 WORLD TOUR livery, topped the timesheets with a 1:16.2931 near the end of the incident-filled session.
There were five red flags but no major incidents.
Sage Karam, who caused one of the reds with an off exiting Turn 3, ended an impressive second with three Team Penske drivers: Will Power, Simon Pagenaud and Helio Castroneves completing the top five.
Results
| Pos | No | Name | Speed | Time | Diff | Gap | FL | Laps | Team |
| 1 | 10 | Tony Kanaan | 110.888 | 1:16.293 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 22 | 23 | Chip Ganassi Racing Teams |
| 2 | 8 | Sage Karam | 110.598 | 1:16.493 | 0.2004 | 0.2004 | 27 | 28 | Chip Ganassi Racing Teams |
| 3 | 1 | Will Power | 110.200 | 1:16.769 | 0.4762 | 0.2758 | 16 | 22 | Verizon Team Penske |
| 4 | 22 | Simon Pagenaud | 110.051 | 1:16.873 | 0.5803 | 0.1041 | 27 | 28 | Team Penske |
| 5 | 3 | Helio Castroneves | 110.017 | 1:16.897 | 0.6038 | 0.0235 | 20 | 22 | Team Penske |
| 6 | 4 | Stefano Coletti | 109.884 | 1:16.990 | 0.6971 | 0.0933 | 26 | 27 | KV Racing Technology |
| 7 | 11 | Sebastien Bourdais | 109.713 | 1:17.110 | 0.8169 | 0.1198 | 14 | 26 | KVSH Racing |
| 8 | 9 | Scott Dixon | 109.667 | 1:17.143 | 0.8498 | 0.0329 | 12 | 20 | Chip Ganassi Racing Teams |
| 9 | 14 | Takuma Sato | 109.662 | 1:17.146 | 0.8533 | 0.0035 | 17 | 22 | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
| 10 | 2 | Juan Pablo Montoya | 109.538 | 1:17.233 | 0.9401 | 0.0868 | 21 | 22 | Team Penske |
| 11 | 27 | Marco Andretti | 109.332 | 1:17.379 | 1.0858 | 0.1457 | 21 | 21 | Andretti Autosport |
| 12 | 41 | Jack Hawksworth | 109.177 | 1:17.489 | 1.1957 | 0.1099 | 15 | 20 | AJ Foyt Enterprises |
| 13 | 15 | Graham Rahal | 108.972 | 1:17.635 | 1.3418 | 0.1461 | 13 | 19 | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
| 14 | 67 | Josef Newgarden | 108.867 | 1:17.710 | 1.4166 | 0.0748 | 14 | 20 | CFH Racing |
| 15 | 20 | Luca Filippi | 108.793 | 1:17.762 | 1.4690 | 0.0524 | 12 | 24 | CFH Racing |
| 16 | 7 | James Jakes | 108.650 | 1:17.864 | 1.5713 | 0.1023 | 17 | 26 | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports |
| 17 | 83 | Charlie Kimball | 108.615 | 1:17.890 | 1.5969 | 0.0256 | 15 | 19 | Chip Ganassi Racing Teams |
| 18 | 28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | 108.555 | 1:17.933 | 1.6399 | 0.0430 | 18 | 18 | Andretti Autosport |
| 19 | 19 | Tristan Vautier | 108.304 | 1:18.113 | 1.8202 | 0.1803 | 19 | 20 | Dale Coyne Racing |
| 20 | 26 | Carlos Munoz | 107.948 | 1:18.371 | 2.0779 | 0.2577 | 14 | 22 | Andretti Autosport |
| 21 | 5 | Conor Daly | 107.841 | 1:18.449 | 2.1557 | 0.0778 | 20 | 25 | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports |
| 22 | 18 | Rodolfo Gonzalez | 107.341 | 1:18.814 | 2.5208 | 0.3651 | 17 | 21 | Dale Coyne Racing |
| 23 | 98 | Gabby Chaves | 106.659 | 1:19.318 | 3.0253 | 0.5045 | 23 | 24 | BHA with Curb-Agajanian |