All three lower levels of the Mazda Road to Indy will be racing on the streets of Toronto this weekend for the first time since St. Petersburg in March.
Canada's own Garett Grist was fastest in the first U.S. F2000 practice ahead of the Frenchman Florian Latorre. American and most recent winner in the U.S. F2000 series Neil Alberico was third. Brazil's Danilo Estrela was fourth with another Canadian Stefan Rzadzinski fifth fastest. U.S. F2000 points leader, Canadian Scott Hargrove was eleventh in the first session.
In Pro Mazda, Matthew Brabham continued his dominance being over sixth-tenths of a second faster than second place Juan Piedrahita in first practice. Spencer Pigot was third fastest with Brabham's Andretti Autosport teammate Shelby Blackstock in fourth. Diego Ferreira was fifth with Scott Anderson sixth. The only Canadian in the Pro Mazda field, Zach Meyer was eighth fastest.
Jack Hawksworth was fastest in Indy Lights practice 0.3501 seconds ahead of the Andretti driver Zach Veach and Carlos Muñoz was 0.5134 seconds back. Peter Dempsey was fourth fastest ahead of Gabby Chaves. Second place in the Firestone Indy Lights standings Sage Karam was sixth, 0.8782 seconds back. Juan Pablo Garcia, Jorge Goncalvez and Canadian Matthew Di Leo rounded out the field.
U.S. F2000 second practice will take place at 12:10 p.m. ET followed by Pro Mazda second practice at 12:45 p.m. U.S. F2000 qualifying will take place at 3:40 p.m. with Pro Mazda qualifying at 4:15 p.m. Firestone Indy Lights second practice will round out the day at 5:00 p.m. with Indy Lights qualifying beginning Saturday's on-track activities at 7:45 a.m.
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