Pagenaud Powers To Top of Time Sheet in Second Practice

Simon Pagenaud looks for his second consecutive victory at Belle Isle

Simon Pagenaud won his first career at Belle Isle in 2013. He paced second practice in one of the best liveries of the season so far. The Frenchman ran a lap of 1:17.6502 seconds, the fastest of the weekend. Following him on the time sheet was the other Belle Isle winner from 2013, Mike Conway. The Brit was 0.0647 seconds back of Pagenaud. Hélio Castroneves was third quickest for the second consecutive session, 0.0669 seconds behind Pagenaud. Will Power was fourth quickest with fastest from first practice Ryan Hunter-Reay rounding out the top five.

Scott Dixon was sixth quickest with Takuma Sato in seventh. James Hinchcliffe was eighth for the second consecutive session. Ryan Briscoe made it two Ganassi cars in the top ten by being ninth fastest and Graham Rahal made it two consecutive session in the top ten in tenth.

Tony Kanaan was eleventh with Carlos Muñoz the top rookie in twelfth. Muñoz's fellow Colombian Sebastián Saavedra was thirteenth. Josef Newgarden was 1.0842 seconds back in fourteenth. Marco Andretti rounded out the top fifteen, making it eight Hondas in the top fifteen.

Justin Wilson was sixteenth after being second in the first session. His fellow Brit Jack Hawksworth was seventeenth. Carlos Huertas was eighteenth with his fellow Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya directly behind him for the second consecutive session. Charlie Kimball rounded out the top twenty with Sébastien Bourdais and Mikhail Aleshin in twenty-second.

Race one qualifying will take place at 8:35 a.m. ET. The Fast Six format will be used for race one qualifying. Coverage of race one from Belle Isle begins at 3:30 p.m. ET on ABC.