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| Scott Dixon Topped Second Practice on the IMS Road Course |
Mikhail Aleshin's Thursday turned out to be a wonderful one. After being the top rookie in sixth, the Russian jumped up to fourth in second practice. James Hinchcliffe was fifth. Graham Rahal had his first good session since St. Petersburg in sixth position. Ryan Hunter-Reay was seventh fastest with Justin Wilson in eighth. Marco Andretti made it three Andretti Autosport cars in the top ten as he was ninth. Tony Kanaan rounded out the top ten with his Ganassi teammate right behind him in eleventh.
Sébastien Bourdais went from quickest in first practice to twelfth in second practice. The Penske cars of Juan Pablo Montoya and Helio Castroneves followed the Frenchman. Jack Hawksworth rounded out the top fifteen with fellow rookie Carlos Muñoz in sixteenth. Ryan Briscoe was seventeenth.
Josef Newgarden was eighteenth ahead of Takuma Sato in nineteenth. Sebastián Saavedra rounded out the top twenty. Martin Plowman was twenty-first ahead of fellow Indianapolis one-off Franck Montagny in twenty-second. Oriol Servià, Carlos Huertas and Mike Conway rounded out the twenty-five car field. The entire field was covered buy 1.1033 seconds with Conway being the lone car outside of one second of Dixon.
IndyCar final practice will take place at 10:00 a.m. ET tomorrow morning with qualifying at 2:00 p.m. ET.
