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| Fastest in Second Practice: The #14 ABC Supply AJ Foyt Racing Honda of Takuma Sato |
Takuma Sato was fastest in second practice, 0.0507 seconds faster than Graham Rahal. The Japanese driver set the fastest lap of the weekend at 62.5615 seconds. Will Power and Helio Castroneves were third and fourth respectively with Power 0.0828 seconds back of Sato and Castroneves 0.2563 seconds back. Simon Pagenaud rounded out the top five.
Ryan Briscoe was sixth quickest ahead of James Hinchcliffe who was fastest in first practice. Briscoe's Ganassi teammate Scott Dixon was eighth. Just over a half second off of Sato was Sébastien Bourdais in ninth with Jack Hawksworth rounding out the top ten in the session, the top rookie of second practice.
Ryan Hunter-Reay was eleventh fastest, a tenth back of Hawksworth. Hunter-Reay's Andertti Autosport teammate Carlos Muñoz was twelfth, just 0.0018 seconds back. Fellow rookie Mikhail Aleshin was thirteenth fastest. Josef Newgarden was fourteenth. His session ended early after having an off. Tony Kanaan rounded out the top fifteen, 0.7452 seconds back of Sato.
Charlie Kimball follows his teammate in sixteenth. Marco Andretti was seventeenth with Juan Pablo Montoya in nineteenth. Montoya had a minor incident, putting his nose in the tire wall at the end of the session. Justin Wilson was nineteenth after being second in the first practice session. He was 0.9861 seconds back.
Mike Conway was 1.0721 seconds off Sato in twentieth. For the second consecutive session, Colombians Sebastián Saavedra and Carlos Huertas rounded out the time chart. Saavedra was 1.2807 seconds back with Huertas just over a half second back of his fellow Colombian.
IndyCar wil have a third practice session at 10:00 a.m. ET tomorrow morning with qualifying taking place at 2:00 p.m. ET.
