Long Beach Qualifying Groups, Power tops final practice
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| Will Power tops the time sheets for P3. |
Morning practice has just wrapped here in Long Beach for the Verizon IndyCar Series. Will Power led the session with Josef Newgarden 2nd and Simon Pagenaud 3rd.
Qualifying will begin at 1:15 p.m. local time. Below are the qualifying groups:
Group 1
#10 Tony Kanaan
#11 Sebastian Bourdais
#14 Takuma Sato
#16 Oriol Servia
#18 Carlos Huertas
#19 Justin Wilson
#20 Mike Conway
#27 James Hinchcliffe
#28 Ryan Hunter-Reay
#67 Josef Newgarden
#83 Charlie Kimball
Group 2
#2 Juan Pablo Montoya
#3 Helio Castroneves
#7Mikhail Aleshin
#8 Ryan Briscoe
#9 Scott Dixon
#12 Will Power
#15 Graham Rahal
#17 Sebastian Saavedra
#25 Marco Andretti
#34 Carlos Munoz
#77 Simon Pagenaud
#98 Jack Hawksworth
Final Practice Results
| Driver | No. | Time | Speed | Laps | Difference | Gap |
| Will Power | 12 | 01:08.1696 | 103.929 | 21 | –.—- | –.—- |
| Josef Newgarden | 67 | 01:08.1718 | 103.926 | 23 | 0.0022 | 0.0022 |
| James Hinchcliffe | 27 | 01:08.3552 | 103.647 | 20 | 0.1856 | 0.1834 |
| Sebastien Bourdais | 11 | 01:08.4446 | 103.511 | 20 | 0.2750 | 0.0894 |
| Ryan Hunter-Reay | 28 | 01:08.5296 | 103.383 | 20 | 0.3600 | 0.0850 |
| Justin Wilson | 19 | 01:08.5369 | 103.372 | 20 | 0.3673 | 0.0073 |
| Simon Pagenaud | 77 | 01:08.5513 | 103.35 | 19 | 0.3817 | 0.0144 |
| Juan Pablo Montoya | 2 | 01:08.5605 | 103.336 | 20 | 0.3909 | 0.0092 |
| Jack Hawksworth | 98 | 01:08.6148 | 103.255 | 21 | 0.4452 | 0.0543 |
| Mike Conway | 20 | 01:08.6634 | 103.182 | 24 | 0.4938 | 0.0486 |
| Helio Castroneves | 3 | 01:08.6926 | 103.138 | 23 | 0.5230 | 0.0292 |
| Ryan Briscoe | 8 | 01:08.7153 | 103.104 | 21 | 0.5457 | 0.0227 |
| Mikhail Aleshin | 7 | 01:08.7912 | 102.99 | 20 | 0.6216 | 0.0759 |
| Scott Dixon | 9 | 01:08.8731 | 102.867 | 23 | 0.7035 | 0.0819 |
| Carlos Huertas | 18 | 01:09.0018 | 102.676 | 23 | 0.8322 | 0.1287 |
| Tony Kanaan | 10 | 01:09.0230 | 102.644 | 23 | 0.8534 | 0.0212 |
| Takuma Sato | 14 | 01:09.0718 | 102.572 | 23 | 0.9022 | 0.0488 |
| Carlos Munoz | 34 | 01:09.0837 | 102.554 | 22 | 0.9141 | 0.0119 |
| Oriol Servia | 16 | 01:09.1291 | 102.487 | 19 | 0.9595 | 0.0454 |
| Graham Rahal | 15 | 01:09.1812 | 102.409 | 21 | 1.0116 | 0.0521 |
| Charlie Kimball | 83 | 01:09.1976 | 102.385 | 22 | 1.0280 | 0.0164 |
| Marco Andretti | 25 | 01:09.2509 | 102.306 | 16 | 1.0813 | 0.0533 |
| Sebastian Saavedra | 17 | 01:09.8116 | 101.485 | 22 | 1.6420 | 0.5607 |