For the fourth practice day, we had a fourth different name on the top of the timesheet. James Hinchcliffe set the fastest average speed on Tuesday at 224.210 MPH while driving Marco Andretti's #25 RC Cola Chevrolet. JR Hildebrand was second (223.652 MPH) with Marco Andretti (223.570 MPH), Helio Castroneves (223.556 MPH) and Ryan Hunter-Reay (223.332 MPH) rounding out the top five. Josef Newgarden was the fastest Honda in seventh (223.123 MPH). The next Honda on the timesheet was Charlie Kimball in nineteenth (220.722 MPH).
Ganassi Racing's two Target entries of Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon were twenty-second (220.502 MPH) and twenty-fifth (219.848 MPH) respectively. The other Panther/Dreyer & Reinbold cars were in the top half of the timesheet with Oriol Serviá in ninth (222.093 MPH) and Townsend Bell in twelfth (221.898 MPH).
Fan-favorite Tony Kanaan was twentieth (220.645 MPH), the slowest of the Chevrolets. None of the three Rahal-Letterman-Lanigan Racing cars were better than twenty-ninth and that was James Jakes (219.191 MPH). Michel Jourdain, Jr. was thirty-second (217.118 MPH) and Graham Rahal was thirty-third (216.633 MPH). Points leader Takuma Sato posted the slowest average speed on the day at 216.616 MPH.
Other notable names on the timesheet: Will Power fourteenth (221.654 MPH), Sébastien Bourdais sixteenth (221.088 MPH), Simon Pagenaud twenty-first (220.591 MPH), Ryan Briscoe twenty-third (220.100 MPH) and Alex Tagliani thirty-first (218.213 MPH).
1996 Indianapolis 500 winner Buddy Lazier has yet to make a practice lap.
Weather forecast for today calls for a high of 84 degrees Fahrenheit with winds WSW at 15 to 25 MPH. Chance of rain is twenty percent.
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