Watkins Glen: Wheldon tops 1st practice, Servia crashes
Dan Wheldon led a Target Chip Ganassi Racing 1-2 in the opening practice Friday for the IndyCars. Tony Kanaan was 3rd ahead of Helio Castroneves who sat on the pole the previous 3 years.
Oriol Servia rounded out the top-5 despite spinning and lightly tapping the guardrail when he spun at the top of the hill at Turn 15.
Results
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Pos |
Driver Name | Best Time | Best Speed | Best Lap | Total Laps |
| 1 | Dan Wheldon (10) | 1:30.6586 | 133.821 | 10 | 22 |
| 2 | Scott Dixon (9) | 1:30.8769 | 133.499 | 16 | 22 |
| 3 | Tony Kanaan (11) | 1:30.9140 | 133.445 | 19 | 24 |
| 4 | Helio Castroneves (3) | 1:31.0710 | 133.215 | 21 | 25 |
| 5 | Oriol Servia (5) | 1:31.1942 | 133.035 | 16 | 19 |
| 6 | Buddy Rice (15) | 1:31.2580 | 132.942 | 25 | 27 |
| 7 | Ryan Briscoe (6) | 1:31.3227 | 132.848 | 20 | 26 |
| 8 | Vitor Meira (4) | 1:31.5452 | 132.525 | 27 | 27 |
| 9 | Will Power (8) | 1:31.6105 | 132.430 | 12 | 12 |
| 10 | Darren Manning (14) | 1:31.8428 | 132.095 | 25 | 27 |
| 11 | Bruno Junqueira (18) | 1:31.9507 | 131.940 | 22 | 22 |
| 12 | Marco Andretti (26) | 1:31.9566 | 131.932 | 8 | 19 |
| 13 | Justin Wilson (02) | 1:32.0504 | 131.797 | 16 | 17 |
| 14 | Ryan Hunter-Reay (17) | 1:32.2318 | 131.538 | 13 | 22 |
| 15 | EJ Viso (33) | 1:32.4613 | 131.212 | 22 | 22 |
| 16 | Hideki Mutoh (27) | 1:32.5050 | 131.150 | 14 | 19 |
| 17 | Danica Patrick (7) | 1:32.5055 | 131.149 | 21 | 23 |
| 18 | Graham Rahal (06) | 1:32.6289 | 130.974 | 24 | 25 |
| 19 | A.J. Foyt IV (2) | 1:33.0476 | 130.385 | 26 | 32 |
| 20 | Mario Dominguez (96) | 1:33.9315 | 129.158 | 18 | 19 |
| 21 | Ed Carpenter (20) | 1:34.2362 | 128.740 | 21 | 28 |
| 22 | Enrique Bernoldi (36) | 1:34.3057 | 128.645 | 10 | 11 |
| 23 | Jay Howard (24) | 1:35.2493 | 127.371 | 21 | 22 |
| 24 | Jaime Camara (34) | 1:36.6440 | 125.533 | 10 | 12 |
| 25 | Milka Duno (23) | 1:38.0351 | 123.752 | 27 | 28 |
| 26 | Mario Moraes (19) | 1:38.4016 | 123.291 | 6 | 6 |