Friday’s Auto Club Speedway Practice Results
Leading the speed chart was Ryan Briscoe, followed by Ed Carpenter and Dario Franchitti. Points leader Will power ran 4th, about 8/10 of a second faster than rival Ryan Hunter-Reay (who was 16th on the speed chart).
Simona de Silvestro, in what is (hopefully) the Lotus swan song was a full 3.6 second behind Briscoe's fast lap. This would mean that she'd be lapped in about 8 laps, and no doubt will be quickly pulled off of the track unless a bunch of speed can be found.
Results
Driver |
Car No. | Best Time | In Lap | Best Speed | Total Laps | Difference | Gap |
Ryan Briscoe | 2 | 00:33.1008 | 6 | 217.517 | 11 | –.—- | –.—- |
Ed Carpenter | 20 | 00:33.1842 | 5 | 216.971 | 21 | 0.0834 | 0.0834 |
Dario Franchitti | 10 | 00:33.2495 | 8 | 216.545 | 9 | 0.1487 | 0.0653 |
Will Power | 12 | 00:33.2651 | 6 | 216.443 | 11 | 0.1643 | 0.0156 |
Helio Castroneves | 3 | 00:33.2787 | 9 | 216.355 | 13 | 0.1779 | 0.0136 |
Scott Dixon | 9 | 00:33.3008 | 3 | 216.211 | 9 | 0.2000 | 0.0221 |
Tony Kanaan | 11 | 00:33.3484 | 3 | 215.902 | 37 | 0.2476 | 0.0476 |
Marco Andretti | 26 | 00:33.4625 | 28 | 215.166 | 33 | 0.3617 | 0.1141 |
JR Hildebrand | 4 | 00:33.5291 | 21 | 214.739 | 23 | 0.4283 | 0.0666 |
Graham Rahal | 38 | 00:33.8624 | 8 | 212.625 | 16 | 0.7616 | 0.3333 |
Katherine Legge | 6 | 00:33.8930 | 3 | 212.433 | 36 | 0.7922 | 0.0306 |
James Hinchcliffe | 27 | 00:33.9226 | 26 | 212.248 | 28 | 0.8218 | 0.0296 |
Justin Wilson | 18 | 00:33.9854 | 2 | 211.856 | 12 | 0.8846 | 0.0628 |
Rubens Barrichello | 8 | 00:33.9949 | 3 | 211.796 | 27 | 0.8941 | 0.0095 |
Charlie Kimball | 83 | 00:34.0648 | 4 | 211.362 | 20 | 0.9640 | 0.0699 |
Ryan Hunter-Reay | 28 | 00:34.0790 | 18 | 211.274 | 19 | 0.9782 | 0.0142 |
Takuma Sato | 15 | 00:34.1331 | 5 | 210.939 | 19 | 1.0323 | 0.0541 |
Simon Pagenaud | 77 | 00:34.2560 | 23 | 210.182 | 30 | 1.1552 | 0.1229 |
E.J. Viso | 5 | 00:34.2830 | 4 | 210.017 | 14 | 1.1822 | 0.0270 |
Sebastian Saavedra | 17 | 00:34.3579 | 7 | 209.559 | 20 | 1.2571 | 0.0749 |
Oriol Servia | 22 | 00:34.3587 | 9 | 209.554 | 27 | 1.2579 | 0.0008 |
James Jakes | 19 | 00:34.4343 | 14 | 209.094 | 26 | 1.3335 | 0.0756 |
Wade Cunningham | 14 | 00:34.5841 | 8 | 208.188 | 28 | 1.4833 | 0.1498 |
Josef Newgarden | 67 | 00:34.9272 | 2 | 206.143 | 3 | 1.8264 | 0.3431 |
Alex Tagliani | 98 | 00:35.2897 | 11 | 204.026 | 15 | 2.1889 | 0.3625 |
Simona de Silvestro | 78 | 00:36.7714 | 7 | 195.804 | 9 | 3.6706 | 1.4817 |