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| Sébastien Bourdais and KV Racing Begin May On Top of Time Sheet |
Sébastien Bourdais was the fastest in first practice for the Grand Prix of Indianapolis, running a lap of 70.5150 seconds. The Frenchman ran a session high 21 laps as he looks to add another IMS road courses victory to his résumé after winning the inaugural Brickyard Grand Prix with Alex Popow in 2012. The most recent winner in the Verizon IndyCar Series Ryan Hunter-Reay was 0.3903 seconds back of Bourdais in second. Simon Pagenaud was third with Josef Newgarden in fourth and Scott Dixon rounding out the top five.
Mikhail Aleshin was the surprise fastest rookie in sixth position, less than a tenth back of his Schmidt Peterson teammate. James Hinchcliffe was seventh fastest. Ryan Briscoe was eighth. Carlos Muñoz made it three Andretti Autosport cars in the top ten in ninth and Jack Hawksworth made it three rookies in the top ten in tenth.
Will Power was eleventh quickest with Sebastián Saavedra twelfth and Hélio Castroneves thirteenth. Justin Wilsn was fourteen with Marco Andretti fifteenth and the second Dale Coyne entry of Carlos Huertas in sixteenth. The top sixteen were covered by a second.
Juan Pablo Montoya was seventeenth. The Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing cars of Oriol Servià and Graham Rahal were eighteenth and nineteenth respectively. Tony Kanaan rounded out the top twenty. Franck Montagny was twenty-first in his first official session behind the wheel of the DW12 chassis. Martin Plowman was twenty-second with Charlie Kimball in twenty-third. The last two Long Beach winners Takuma Sato and Mike Conway rounded out the field in twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth respectively.
The field was covered by 1.5760 seconds.
Bourdais' fastest lap was 0.9181 seconds slower than the fastest lap at last week's test, a 69.5969 second lap run by Scott Dixon.
IndyCar second practice will take place at 2:00 p.m. ET later today.
