The Honda of Simon Pagenaud ran the fastest time in final practice at 1:08.0960. Will Power was second, just 0.0076 seconds back. Mike Conway continues his impressive season debut. He was third ahead of Ryan Hunter-Reay and his teammate Graham Rahal.
Dario Franchitti led his teammate Charlie Kimball in sixth and seventh. AJ Allmendinger returns to Long Beach for the first time since 2006. He was eight. Simona de Silvestro and Helio Castroneves rounded out the top ten. The Chevrolets of Tony Kanaan, JR Hildebrand and Marco Andretti took the next three spots on the timesheet with Tristan Vautier in fourteenth and Sébastien Bourdais in fifteenth.
Other notables from final practice were Takuma Sato in 17th, James Hinchcliffe in 19th, Josef Newgarden 20th, Scott Dixon 22nd and Justin Wilson 24th.
There were two incidents in the session. Power went into the tires in turn one and Castroneves had a off as well.
Should the times carry over to qualifying, the teams advancing to the Fast 12 would look like this:
Group One: Pagenaud, Conway, Rahal, Franchitti, Kanaan, Vautier.
Group Two: Power, Hunter-Reay, Kimball, Allmendinger, de Silvestro, Castroneves.
Qualifying will take place at 5:00 p.m. ET and will air on NBC Sports Network at 6:00 p.m. ET.
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