Hunter-Reay Dominants Friday at Barber

Ryan Hunter-Reay topped the second session at Barber.

Ryan Hunter-Reay rounded out Friday on top of the time sheets as the 2012 IndyCar champion ran the fastest lap of the weekend, a 1:08.7836 lap. Second place in the second session was Sébastien Bourdais, who was 0.1475 back of the American. Will Power was 0.1910 seconds back in third while Hunter-Reay's Andretti Autosport teammate James Hinchcliffe was fourth fastest with Helio Castroneves rounding out the top five.

Josef Newgarden was sixth fastest, just a little over three-tenths of a second back. Scott Dixon recovered from his mechanical issues in first practice to be seventh fastest. Simon Pagenaud was eighth. Pagenaud's #77 Honda is on it's second engine change of the season after a change after Long Beach. Ryan Briscoe was ninth with Carlos Muñoz rounding out the top ten. Chevrolet and Honda split the top ten 5-to-5.

Marco Andretti was 0.5399 seconds back of his teammate in eleventh. Charlie Kimball was twelfth. Takuma Sato was thirteenth with Justin Wilson in fourteenth. Mike Conway rounded out the top fifteen. Mikhail Aleshin was sixteenth fastest. Just like his Schmidt Peterson teammate, Aleshin had his engine changed after Long Beach.

Juan Pablo Montoya was seventeenth after the second session. He was fifth in the first practice. Sebastián Saavedra followed his fellow Colombian in eighteenth. Graham Rahal was nineteenth. Carlos Huertas rounded out the top twenty, 1.0162 seconds back of Hunter-Reay. Tony Kanaan was twenty-first with Oriol Servià twenty-second. Less than a tenth of a second covered Huertas, Kanaan and Servià. Jack Hawksworth rounded out the field in twenty-third, 1.2666 seconds back of Hunter-Reay.

There was only one red flag in the second session and that was for a piece of debris.

IndyCar will have one final practice session tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. ET with qualifying at 3:00 p.m. ET.