Power Leads Opening Practice

Will Power put the #12 Verizon Team Penske on top of the time sheet during the opening practice for The Grand Prix of Baltimore Presented by SRT. Turning a lap time of 1:20.863, Power, who has won the pole in both races here in downtown Baltimore, was more than two-tenths of a second faster than second-place EJ Viso in the #5 Team Venezuela PDVSA CITGO Chevrolet.

Oriol Servia completed a top-three for the Bowtie Brigade in the #4 National Guard Panther Racing Chevrolet. Graham Rahal was the first Honda in fourth-place, with Scott Dixon rounding out the top-5.

Results

Pos	Driver	Car No.	Time	Speed	Laps	Difference	Gap
1	Will Power	12	01:20.8632	90.82	9	–.—-	–.—-
2	E.J. Viso	5	01:21.1256	90.526	16	0.2624	0.2624
3	Oriol Servia	4	01:21.2977	90.335	11	0.4345	0.1721
4	Graham Rahal	15	01:21.3134	90.317	13	0.4502	0.0157
5	Scott Dixon	9	01:21.3247	90.305	6	0.4615	0.0113
6	Josef Newgarden	67	01:21.4165	90.203	15	0.5533	0.0918
7	Simon Pagenaud	77	01:21.4521	90.163	10	0.5889	0.0356
8	Tristan Vautier	55	01:21.4625	90.152	13	0.5993	0.0104
9	Marco Andretti	25	01:21.5462	90.059	7	0.6830	0.0837
10	Sebastien Bourdais	7	01:21.5508	90.054	14	0.6876	0.0046
11	James Jakes	16	01:21.6477	89.947	11	0.7845	0.0969
12	Helio Castroneves	3	01:21.7964	89.784	11	0.9332	0.1487
13	Ryan Hunter-Reay	1	01:21.8010	89.779	7	0.9378	0.0046
14	Justin Wilson	19	01:21.8058	89.774	11	0.9426	0.0048
15	Takuma Sato	14	01:21.8487	89.727	16	0.9855	0.0429
16	Charlie Kimball	83	01:21.8769	89.696	12	1.0137	0.0282
17	James Hinchcliffe	27	01:22.1269	89.423	6	1.2637	0.2500
18	Sebastian Saavedra	6	01:22.1411	89.407	10	1.2779	0.0142
19	Tony Kanaan	11	01:22.1730	89.372	15	1.3098	0.0319
20	Simona De Silvestro	78	01:22.3078	89.226	18	1.4446	0.1348
21	Luca Filippi	98	01:22.5895	88.922	14	1.7263	0.2817
22	Dario Franchitti	10	01:23.4799	87.973	5	2.6167	0.8904
23	Ed Carpenter	20	01:24.8443	86.559	15	3.9811	1.3644
24	Stefan Wilson	18	01:25.2797	86.117	19	4.4165	0.4354