Toronto: Franchitti pips Castroneves in opening practice

Target Chip Ganassi ace Dario Franchitti knocked Helio Castroneves from the top of the timesheets on the last lap of the opening practice for the Toronto Honda IndyCar race on the streets around Exhibition Place.

In a relatively incident free session, Franchitti's lap of 1m1.568s was just enough to beat the Penske driver who recorded a best lap of 1m1.632s.

Ryan Hunter-Reay, Justin Wilson and Will Power rounded out the top-5.

Results

Rank	Car	Driver	BL	Diff.	Gap	Laps
1	10	Dario Franchitti	1:01.568	–.—-	–.—-	19
2	3	Helio Castroneves	1:01.632	0.0640	0.0640	29
3	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	1:01.664	0.0968	0.0328	25
4	22	Justin Wilson	1:01.732	0.1648	0.0680	27
5	12	Will Power	1:01.791	0.2236	0.0588	19
6	9	Scott Dixon	1:01.796	0.2283	0.0047	15
7	77	Alex Tagliani	1:01.807	0.2399	0.0116	16
8	5	Takuma Sato	1:01.879	0.3112	0.0713	27
9	82	Tony Kanaan	1:01.891	0.3232	0.0120	12
10	27	Mike Conway	1:01.924	0.3561	0.0329	27
11	06	James Hinchcliffe	1:01.971	0.4039	0.0478	35
12	8	Paul Tracy	1:02.047	0.4798	0.0759	23
13	2	Oriol Servia	1:02.070	0.5028	0.0230	17
14	4	JR Hildebrand	1:02.321	0.7537	0.2509	34
15	83	Charlie Kimball	1:02.343	0.7754	0.0217	38
16	6	Ryan Briscoe	1:02.351	0.7833	0.0079	19
17	38	Graham Rahal	1:02.544	0.9769	0.1936	18
18	19	Sebastien Bourdais	1:02.761	1.1936	0.2167	33
19	59	EJ Viso	1:02.778	1.2099	0.0163	21
20	26	Marco Andretti	1:03.153	1.5850	0.3751	14
21	7	Danica Patrick	1:03.220	1.6523	0.0673	24
22	14	Vitor Meira	1:03.393	1.8255	0.1732	28
23	78	Simona de Silvestro	1:03.562	1.9944	0.1689	30
24	18	James Jakes	1:03.589	2.0210	0.0266	34
25	24	Ana Beatriz	1:03.724	2.1567	0.1357	36
26	34	Sebastian Saavedra	1:04.354	2.7860	0.6293	31