Hinchcliffe tops opening IndyCar practice in Long Beach

James Hinchliffe turned the fastest lap in opening practice for the 39th running of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Hinchcliffe had a best lap of 1 minute, 09.8157 seconds on the 1.968-mile, 11-turn course. Mike Conway, who won the race in 2011 with Andretti Autosport, was second in the No. 17 blu eCigs car for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (1:09.8290) and Takuma Sato was third (1:10.0180) in the No. 14 ABC Supply car for A.J. Foyt Racing.

Simona de Silvestro was fourth and reigning IZOD IndyCar Series champion and 2010 Long Beach race winner Ryan Hunter-Reay was fifth.

The session was red-flagged one minute early when JR Hildebrand went into the runoff area.

Results

Rank	Car	Driver	Engine	Time	Speed	Diff	Gap	Laps
1	27	Hinchcliffe, James	Chevy	01:09.8157	101.479	0.0000	0.0000	9
2	17	Conway, Mike	Honda	01:09.8290	101.459	0.0133	0.0133	21
3	14	Sato, Takuma	Honda	01:10.0180	101.185	0.2023	0.1890	15
4	78	de Silvestro, Simona	Chevy	01:10.0767	101.101	0.2610	0.0587	13
5	1	Hunter-Reay, Ryan	Chevy	01:10.0834	101.091	0.2677	0.0067	7
6	19	Wilson, Justin	Honda	01:10.1028	101.063	0.2871	0.0194	13
7	9	Dixon, Scott	Honda	01:10.1479	100.998	0.3322	0.0451	8
8	15	Rahal, Graham	Honda	01:10.1906	100.937	0.3749	0.0427	15
9	67	Newgarden, Josef	Honda	01:10.2081	100.911	0.3924	0.0175	17
10	4	Hildebrand, JR	Chevy	01:10.4001	100.636	0.5844	0.1920	19
11	16	Jakes, James	Honda	01:10.4236	100.603	0.6079	0.0235	15
12	77	Pagenaud, Simon	Honda	01:10.4703	100.536	0.6546	0.0467	11
13	12	Power, Will	Chevy	01:10.4809	100.521	0.6652	0.0106	12
14	10	Franchitti, Dario	Honda	01:10.4976	100.497	0.6819	0.0167	14
15	3	Castroneves, Helio	Chevy	01:10.6486	100.282	0.8329	0.1510	10
16	11	Kanaan, Tony	Chevy	01:10.7120	100.192	0.8963	0.0634	6
17	25	Andretti, Marco	Chevy	01:10.7322	100.164	0.9165	0.0202	11
18	83	Kimball, Charlie	Honda	01:10.8156	100.046	0.9999	0.0834	9
19	7	Bourdais, Sebastien	Chevy	01:10.8196	100.040	1.0039	0.0040	15
20	5	Viso, EJ	Chevy	01:10.8341	100.020	1.0184	0.0145	10
21	55	Vautier, Tristan(R)	Honda	01:10.8972	99.931	1.0815	0.0631	14
22	18	Beatriz, Ana	Honda	01:11.0011	99.784	1.1854	0.1039	22
23	98	Tagliani, Alex	Honda	01:11.0580	99.704	1.2423	0.0569	8
24	22	Servia, Oriol	Chevy	01:11.0586	99.704	1.2429	0.0006	16
25	6	Saavedra, Sebastian	Chevy	01:11.0693	99.689	1.2536	0.0107	14
26	2	Allmendinger, AJ	Chevy	01:11.1686	99.550	1.3529	0.0993	17
27	20	Carpenter, Ed	Chevy	01:12.2408	98.072	2.4251	1.0722	17