Power favored to win pole in Long Beach

Verizon Penske driver Will Power painted himself as the favorite to win the pole later today for Sunday's Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach after dominating Saturday morning practice under clear skies and mild temperatures.

Power was the only driver to break below the 1m10s barrier with a lap of 1m09.9596s on the 1.98-mile street circuit.

Ganassi Racing's Dario Franchitti, who is the defending race champion, was 2nd quick at 1m10.3147s.

Power's teammate, Helio Castroneves was third, Justin Wilson 4th and yesterday's quick man, Ryan Hunter-Reay 5th.

Results

Rank	No	Name	Laps	Gap	Diff	Best Lap Time
1	12	Will Power	26	–.—-	–.—-	1:09.9596
2	10	Dario Franchitti	24	0.3550	0.3550	1:10.3147
3	3	Helio Castroneves	29	0.0591	0.4141	1:10.3738
4	22	Justin Wilson	27	0.0269	0.4410	1:10.4007
5	37	Ryan Hunter-Reay	24	0.1423	0.5833	1:10.5430
6	6	Ryan Briscoe	27	0.0331	0.6164	1:10.5760
7	24	Mike Conway	28	0.0253	0.6417	1:10.6013
8	77	Alex Tagliani	28	0.0146	0.6563	1:10.6160
9	26	Marco Andretti	29	0.0480	0.7043	1:10.6640
10	78	Simona de Silvestro	27	0.0140	0.7183	1:10.6779
11	9	Scott Dixon	28	0.1056	0.8239	1:10.7836
12	06	Hideki Mutoh	27	0.0339	0.8578	1:10.8174
13	2	Raphael Matos	27	0.0502	0.9080	1:10.8677
14	11	Tony Kanaan	28	0.0253	0.9333	1:10.8930
15	32	Mario Moraes	22	0.0060	0.9393	1:10.8990
16	14	Vitor Meira	34	0.0492	0.9885	1:10.9482
17	7	Danica Patrick	30	0.2120	1.2005	1:11.1602
18	4	Dan Wheldon	27	0.0478	1.2483	1:11.2079
19	67	Graham Rahal	25	0.2023	1.4506	1:11.4103
20	5	Takuma Sato	29	0.0064	1.4570	1:11.4167
21	19	Alex Lloyd	31	0.0789	1.5359	1:11.4955
22	36	Bertrand Baguette	25	0.1503	1.6862	1:11.6458
23	34	Mario Romancini	32	0.1717	1.8579	1:11.8175
24	8	EJ Viso	24	0.0389	1.8968	1:11.8564
25	18	Milka Duno	19	9.2771	11.1739	1:21.1336