Hinchcliffe Fastest in Final Practice

Fastest in final practice James Hinchcliffe with team owner Michael Andretti.

Andretti Autosport went three-for-three in practice for the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama from Barber Motorsports Park. Canadian James Hinchcliffe ran the fastest lap of the weekend, a 1:07.9206 lap and 0.1084 seconds faster than Sébastien Bourdais in second. Bourdais led a four Chevrolet train with Scott Dixon and Penske teammates Helio Castroneves and Will Power rounding out the top five.

Honda took the next four times on the time sheet. Ryan Hunter-Reay was sixth quickest in final practice after leading both sessions on Friday. Simon Pagenaud was seventh with Josef Newgarden in eighth. Takuma Sato was ninth. Ryan Briscoe rounded out the top ten.

Carlos Muñoz was the top rookie in eleventh and his fellow Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya was twelfth. Justin Wilson was thirteenth followed by Charlie Kimball. Kimball's former teammate Graham Rahal was fifteenth.

Mikhail Aleshin was sixteenth followed by Oriol Servià. Long Beach winner Mike Conway was eighteenth and was the last driver within a second of the fastest time in the session. Marco Andretti was nineteenth. Sebastián Saavedra rounded out the top twenty. Tony Kanaan was twenty-first while rookies Jack Hawksworth and Carlos Huertas rounded out the field. The field was covered by 1.3672 seconds.

Should these times carry over to qualifying, here are the drivers that would advance to round two.

Group One: Bourdais, Castroneves, Power, Pagenaud, Muñoz, Montoya. Not advancing: Kimball, Servià, Conway, Saavedra, Huertas.
Group two: Hinchcliffe, Dixon, Hunter-Reay, Newgarden, Sato, Briscoe. Not advancing: Wilson, Rahal, Aleshin, Andretti, Kanaan, Hawksworth.

Qualifying will take place at 3:00 p.m. ET.