Marco Andretti was fastest in the final practice session of the season. Another practice session where Chevrolets swept the top five positions. Less than a tenth of a second covered the top four as Andretti was only 0.0016 seconds ahead of Helio Castroneves. Ed Carpenter was third with Tony Kanaan in fourth, only 0.0006 seconds off Carpenter for third. Will Power rounded out the top five.
Scott Dixon was the fastest Honda in sixth ahead of the the defending Izod IndyCar champion Ryan Hunter-Reay. Dixon's Gannasi teammates Alex Tagliani and Charlie Kimball were eighth and ninth with Simona de Silvestro rounding out the top ten.
De Silvestro led a string of five consecutive Chevrolets. Behind her was AJ Allmendinger eleventh fastest, James Hinchcliffe twelfth, Oriol Servià thirteenth and Sébastien Bourdais fourteenth. Josef Newgarden was fifteenth.
James Jakes was sixteenth fastest in the #16 Acorn Stairlifts Honda. The Dale Coyne teammates of Justin Wilson and Pippa Mann were next on the time sheet. JR Hildebrand was nineteenth with Takuma Sato twentieth.
Carlos Muñoz was twenty-first in what will be his third career IndyCar start. Simon Pagenaud was twenty-second with Sebastián Saavedra, Graham Rahal and Pagenaud's Schmidt Peterson Hamilton Racing teammate, fellow Frenchman and 2013 IndyCar Rookie of the Year Tristan Vautier rounding out the field.
Vautier only did one lap in the session while Tagliani and Servià both ran a session leading forty-one laps.
The 2013 Izod IndyCar Series season finale can be seen tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. ET on NBCSN with green flag around 9:10 p.m. ET.
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