Power tops wet opening IndyCar practice at Barber

Will Power was quickest in the opening practice session for this weekend's IndyCar event at Barber Motorsports Park.

The Australian Penske driver only completed five laps of the Alabama track before rain hit, but managed to set a 1m12.750s to beat St Petersburg winner and reigning champion Dario Franchitti (Ganassi) to the top spot.

Ryan Briscoe, Scott Dixon and Mike Conway rounded out the top-5.

Results

Rank	Car	Driver	Time	Speed	Behind	Gap
1	12	Power, Will	01:12.7502	113.814	–.—-	–.—- 5 5
2	10	Franchitti, Dario	01:13.4078	112.795	0.6576	0.6576
3	6	Briscoe, Ryan	01:13.5017	112.65	0.7515	0.0939
4	9	Dixon, Scott	01:13.6461	112.43	0.8959	0.1444
5	27	Conway, Mike	01:13.7786	112.228	1.0284	0.1325
6	3	Castroneves, Helio	01:13.7958	112.202	1.0456	0.0172
7	5	Sato, Takuma	01:13.8155	112.172	1.0653	0.0197
8	22	Wilson, Justin	01:13.9165	112.018	1.1663	0.101
9	28	Hunter-Reay, Ryan	01:14.0133	111.872	1.2631	0.0968
10	83	Kimball, Charlie (R)	01:14.2019	111.587	1.4517	0.1886
11	6	Hinchcliffe, James (R)	01:14.2344	111.539	1.4842	0.0325
12	82	Kanaan, Tony	01:14.2371	111.535	1.4869	0.0027
13	26	Andretti, Marco	01:14.2532	111.51	1.503	0.0161
14	77	Tagliani, Alex	01:14.3615	111.348	1.6113	0.1083
15	7	Patrick, Danica	01:14.3840	111.314	1.6338	0.0225
17	19	Bourdais, Sebastien	01:14.4307	111.244	1.6805	0.0352
18	59	Viso, EJ	01:14.4955	111.148	1.7453	0.0648
19	38	Rahal, Graham	01:14.6531	110.913	1.9029	0.1576
20	2	Servia, Oriol	01:14.6808	110.872	1.9306	0.0277
21	34	Saavedra, Sebastian (R)	01:14.7969	110.7	2.0467	0.1161
22	78	de Silvestro, Simona	01:14.8736	110.586	2.1234	0.0767
23	4	Hildebrand, JR (R)	01:14.9225	110.514	2.1723	0.0489
24	18	Jakes, James (R)	01:15.0750	110.29	2.3248	0.1525
25	24	Pagenaud, Simon (R)	01:15.2944	109.968	2.5442	0.2194
26	17	Matos, Raphael	01:15.2960	109.966	2.5458	0.0016