The first practice session of the 2013 Izod IndyCar season is in the bag. And Ryan Hunter-Reay has picked up where he left off in 2012. Car #1 was #1 on the time sheets with a time of 1:02.4534. His teammate James Hinchcliffe was only 0.0010 seconds off that time with Will Power also under a tenth of a second back. Viso was fourth in his first session with Andretti Autosport and Tony Kanaan was fifth.
Dario Franchitti was the fastest Honda in sixth (1:02.6823). Simona de Silvestro was seventh ahead of Josef Newgarden, the only other Honda to crack the top ten. Sébastien Bourdais and Marco Andretti rounded out the top ten.
The next Honda after Newgarden was James Jakes in 12th, followed by Tristan Vautier, Scorr Dixon and Charlie Kimball.
The bottom of the time sheet had names usually found at the top starting with Justin Wilson in 19th, Simon Pagenaud in 20th, Alex Tagliani in 22nd and Graham Rahal in 23rd. However, it is only first practice and there is still one more session today and one tomorrow morning before qualifying at 2pm tomorrow.
The top 22 cars were within a second of Hunter-Reay's 1:02.4534. Ed Carpenter and Ana Beatriz were the bottom two.
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