Andretti tops opening IndyCar practice in Long Beach

Marco Andretti, intent on restoring the Andretti name at the top of the Long Beach record book, turned the fastest lap in opening practice for the IndyCars on the 1.97-mile street circuit. On a track that started damp but slowly dried, Andretti's lap of 1m17.2298s was nearly 3/4 of a second up on Takuma Sato in second.

Mike Conway was third for AJ Foyt Racing. Tony Kanaan and J.R. Hildebrand rounded out the top-5.

The times are way off from the record here at Long Beach but the lap times will drop quickly tomorrow on a dry track and sunny weather.

Rank	Car	Driver	Engine	Time	Diff.	Gap	Laps
1	26	Marco Andretti	Chevy	1:17.2298	0.0000s	0.0000s	11
2	15	Takuma Sato	Honda	1:17.9448	0.7150	0.7150	7
3	14	Mike Conway	Honda	1:18.2396	1.0098	0.2948	6
4	11	Tony Kanaan	Chevy	1:19.2201	1.9903	0.9805	5
5	4	JR Hildebrand	Chevy	1:19.5781	2.3483	0.3580	13
6	2	Ryan Briscoe	Chevy	1:19.6077	2.3779	0.0296	4
7	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Chevy	1:19.6864	2.4566	0.0787	6
8	5	EJ Viso	Chevy	1:20.0477	2.8179	0.3613	10
9	3	Helio Castroneves	Chevy	1:20.8696	3.6398	0.8219	12
10	9	Scott Dixon	Honda	1:20.8931	3.6633	0.0235	13
11	7	Sebastien Bourdais	Lotus	1:20.9018	3.6720	0.0087	12
12	8	Rubens Barrichello	Chevy	1:20.9135	3.6837	0.0117	19
13	12	Will Power	Chevy	1:21.2195	3.9897	0.3060	8
14	20	Ed Carpenter	Chevy	1:22.7224	5.4926	1.5029	7
15	22	Oriol Servia	Lotus	1:23.2228	5.9930	0.5004	7
16	98	Alex Tagliani	Lotus	1:24.2307	7.0009	1.0079	3
17	78	Simona de Silvestro	Lotus	1:24.4915	7.2617	0.2608	7
18	6	Katherine Legge	Lotus	1:25.7130	8.4832	1.2215	11
19	27	James Hinchcliffe	Chevy	57:27.5598	56:10.3300	56:01.8468	1
20	10	Dario Franchitti	Honda	0	0.0000	0	0
21	67	Josef Newgarden	Honda	0	0.0000	0	0