Final Practice of 2014 IndyCar Season Ends Prematurely Due to Aleshin Accident

Ryan Briscoe was fastest in the final practice session for the 2014 Verizon IndyCar Series season after the session end prematurely due to an accident involving Mikhail Aleshin, Charlie Kimball, Sébastien Bourdais, Jack Hawksworth and Marco Andretti.

Indianapolis Star's Curt Cavin providing a description of what happened in the accident. 

Replay: Aleshin spun after getting below white line, spun into Kimball's path, massive crash, Aleshin vaults into the fence. HUGE
— Curt Cavin (@curtcavin) August 30, 2014

Aleshin has been put on a stretcher and been taken immediately to the hospital according to IMS Radio's Jake Query.

Holmatro safety team has Mikhail Aleshin on a stretcher. No condition update or communication from Aleshin.
— Jake Query (@jakequery) August 30, 2014

Update: 11:09 p.m. ET
From IndyCar, Mikhail Aleshin is awake and conscious. Complaining about injuries to right shoulder and right foot.

Update on @mikhailaleshin: He is awake and conscious. Complaining about injuries to his right shoulder and right foot. #IndyCar
— IndyCar Series (@IndyCar) August 30, 2014

Briscoe was the fastest after running a lap at 32.9279 seconds (218.660 MPH). His Ganassi teammate Scott Dixon was second. Will Power was third fastest followed by Kimball. James Hinchcliffe was the top Honda in fifth. 

The pole-sitter for tomorrow's race Hélio Castroneves was sixth ahead of fellow Brazilian Tony Kanaan. Andretti and Bourdais were eighth and ninth at the time of the accident and Ryan Hunter-Reay rounded out the top ten. 

Josef Newgarden was eleventh followed by fellow Honda drivers Graham Rahal and Simon Pagenaud. Aleshin was fourteenth fastest in the abbreviated session, 0.5134 seconds back of Briscoe. Ed Carpenter rounded out the top fifteen. 

Sebastián Saavedra was sixteenth with Justin Wilson in seventeenth followed by Takuma Sato, Jack Hawksworth and Juan Pablo Montoya rounding out the top twenty. Colombians Carlos Muñoz and Carlos Huertas rounded out the field. The field was covered by 1.7982 seconds in this session. 

NBCSN's coverage of the 2014 Verizon IndyCar Series season finale, the MAVTV 500 from Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California is scheduled for 9:00 p.m. ET with green flag at 10:20 p.m.