Hinchcliffe leads opening IndyCar practice

Canadian James Hinchcliffe gave the locals and sponsor Sprott something to cheer about Saturday morning in Edmonton by turning the fastest lap in practice 1 for the IndyCars on the revamped Edmonton airport circuit.

The track was a bit damp to start but quickly dried out. One thing that is clear is that the new layout is significantly slower than the old layout.

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	No.	Time	Speed	Diff	Gap	Laps
1	James Hinchcliffe	Newman/Haas Racing	06	01:19.9036	100.201	–.—-	–.—-	20
2	Dario Franchitti	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	10	01:20.0022	100.077	0.0986	0.0986	22
3	Will Power	Team Penske	12	01:20.0186	100.057	0.1150	0.0164	20
4	Scott Dixon	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	9	01:20.0362	100.035	0.1326	0.0176	17
5	Ryan Briscoe	Team Penske	6	01:20.0489	100.019	0.1453	0.0127	21
6	E.J. Viso	KV Racing Technology-Lotus	59	01:20.0915	99.966	0.1879	0.0426	18
7	Justin Wilson	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	22	01:20.1213	99.928	0.2177	0.0298	19
8	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske	3	01:20.1293	99.919	0.2257	0.0080	20
9	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing Technology-Lotus	82	01:20.2532	99.764	0.3496	0.1239	17
10	Vitor Meira	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	14	01:20.2837	99.726	0.3801	0.0305	23
11	Graham Rahal	Service Central Chip Ganassi	38	01:20.2857	99.724	0.3821	0.0020	19
12	Takuma Sato	KV Racing Technology-Lotus	5	01:20.2867	99.723	0.3831	0.0010	20
13	Oriol Servia	Newman/Haas Racing	2	01:20.3667	99.623	0.4631	0.0800	15
14	JR Hildebrand	Panther Racing	4	01:20.3686	99.621	0.4650	0.0019	22
15	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	28	01:20.3973	99.585	0.4937	0.0287	17
16	Sebastien Bourdais	Dale Coyne Racing	19	01:20.5368	99.413	0.6332	0.1395	18
17	Alex Tagliani	Sam Schmidt Motorsports	77	01:20.5617	99.382	0.6581	0.0249	17
18	Mike Conway	Andretti Autosport	27	01:20.6309	99.297	0.7273	0.0692	15
19	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	26	01:21.0095	98.833	1.1059	0.3786	20
20	Danica Patrick	Andretti Autosport	7	01:21.2531	98.537	1.3495	0.2436	18
21	Charlie Kimball	Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing	83	01:21.3225	98.452	1.4189	0.0694	17
22	Seb. Saavedra	Conquest Racing	34	01:21.4138	98.342	1.5102	0.0913	21
23	Paul Tracy	Dragon Racing	8	01:21.6754	98.027	1.7718	0.2616	18
24	James Jakes	Dale Coyne Racing	18	01:21.7173	97.977	1.8137	0.0419	21
25	Ana Beatriz	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	24	01:22.1572	97.452	2.2536	0.4399	21
26	S de Silvestro	HVM Racing	78	01:22.1910	97.412	2.2874	0.0338	12