IndyCar: Power leads opening IndyCar practice in Fontana

Will Power

Will Power set fast time in opening Verizon IndyCar Series practice for the MAVTV 500 at Auto Club Speedway. With a lap of 221.389 mph, the series championship leader clocked in 0.0051 seconds ahead of teammate Helio Castroneves, who enters the series finale 51 points behind the Aussie.

2012 ACS winner Ed Carpenter was third. Target Chip Ganassi Racing teammates Scott Dixon and Tony Kanaan clocked in fourth and fifth respectively, completing a Chevrolet sweep of the top-5. Mikhail Aleshin was the lead Honda in sixth.

Next up will be qualifying at 2:15 p.m. local time.

Results

Pos	No	Name	Time	Diff	Gap	FL	Laps	Speed	Engine
1	12	Will Power	32.522	0.000	0.000	2	9	221.389	Chevy
2	3	Helio Castroneves	32.527	0.0051	0.0051	2	9	221.354	Chevy
3	20	Ed Carpenter	32.815	0.2928	0.2877	2	31	219.413	Chevy
4	9	Scott Dixon	32.828	0.3058	0.0130	2	14	219.326	Chevy
5	10	Tony Kanaan	32.833	0.3112	0.0054	2	15	219.290	Chevy
6	83	Charlie Kimball	32.842	0.3195	0.0083	7	13	219.235	Chevy
7	7	Mikhail Aleshin	32.945	0.4233	0.1038	4	38	218.544	Honda
8	2	Juan Pablo Montoya	32.961	0.4390	0.0157	10	17	218.440	Chevy
9	67	Josef Newgarden	32.964	0.4420	0.0030	2	46	218.420	Honda
10	8	Ryan Briscoe	32.970	0.4482	0.0062	12	13	218.379	Chevy
11	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	32.971	0.4490	0.0008	18	31	218.374	Honda
12	77	Simon Pagenaud	32.981	0.4593	0.0103	4	40	218.306	Honda
13	27	James Hinchcliffe	33.051	0.5287	0.0694	14	22	217.847	Honda
14	34	Carlos Munoz	33.074	0.5520	0.0233	3	19	217.694	Honda
15	25	Marco Andretti	33.130	0.6076	0.0556	4	24	217.328	Honda
16	11	Sebastien Bourdais	33.193	0.6708	0.0632	3	34	216.915	Chevy
17	15	Graham Rahal	33.200	0.6779	0.0071	7	40	216.868	Honda
18	14	Takuma Sato	33.208	0.6860	0.0081	27	34	216.815	Honda
19	19	Justin Wilson	33.285	0.7628	0.0768	3	42	216.315	Honda
20	98	Jack Hawksworth	33.342	0.8198	0.0570	44	45	215.945	Honda
21	17	Sebastian Saavedra	33.388	0.8660	0.0462	27	36	215.646	Chevy
22	18	Carlos Huertas	34.042	1.5203	0.6543	47	49	211.502	Honda