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Sonoma IndyCar: Dario Franchitti fastest in final practice

Dario Franchitti finished comfortably on top in the third IndyCar practice session at Sonoma

The Scot waited until the second half of the session before making his first appearance on the track and immediately shot to the top of the timing screens for Ganassi.

His fastest lap of 1m18.0988s, set on his first flying lap, was more than a second quicker than anyone else in the field at that point.

That margin was reduced as others improved, but the lap that took Andretti driver Ryan Hunter-Reay to second-fastest was still more than 0.2s off Franchitti's pace.

Sebastien Bourdias was third fastest for Dragon, ahead of Scott Dixon and Justin Wilson.

Pos  Driver               Team/Engine      Time        Gap
 1.  Dario Franchitti     Ganassi/Honda    1m18.0988s
 2.  Ryan Hunter-Reay     Andretti/Chevy   1m18.3542s  +0.2554s
 3.  Sebastien Bourdais   Dragon/Chevy     1m18.5513s  +0.4525s
 4.  Scott Dixon          Ganassi/Honda    1m18.5643s  +0.4655s
 5.  Justin Wilson        Coyne/Honda      1m18.5695s  +0.4707s
 6.  Helio Castroneves    Penske/Chevy     1m18.6593s  +0.5605s
 7.  Marco Andretti       Andretti/Chevy   1m18.7551s  +0.6563s
 8.  Charlie Kimball      Ganassi/Honda    1m18.7604s  +0.6616s
 9.  Graham Rahal         Rahal/Honda      1m18.7912s  +0.6924s
10.  Simona de Silvestro  KV/Chevy         1m18.8062s  +0.7074s
11.  James Hinchcliffe    Andretti/Chevy   1m18.8745s  +0.7757s
12.  James Jakes          Rahal/Honda      1m18.8927s  +0.7939s
13.  Tristan Vautier      Schmidt/Honda    1m18.9115s  +0.8127s
14.  Ryan Briscoe         Panther/Chevy    1m18.9199s  +0.8211s
15.  Will Power           Penske/Chevy     1m19.0436s  +0.9448s
16.  Sebastian Saavedra   Dragon/Chevy     1m19.0843s  +0.9855s
17.  Simon Pagenaud       Schmidt/Honda    1m19.0889s  +0.9901s
18.  Takuma Sato          Foyt/Honda       1m19.0982s  +0.9994s
19.  EJ Viso              Andretti/Chevy   1m19.1701s  +1.0713s
20.  JR Hildebrand        Herta/Honda      1m19.1808s  +1.0820s
21.  Tony Kanaan          KV/Chevy         1m19.7045s  +1.6057s
22.  Josef Newgarden      Fisher/Honda     1m19.9050s  +1.8062s
23.  Lucas Luhr           Fisher/Honda     1m20.3230s  +2.2242s
24.  James Davison        Coyne/Honda      1m20.5516s  +2.4528s
25.  Ed Carpenter         Carpenter/Chevy  1m20.9619s  +2.8631s

All drivers use Dallara DW12 chassis

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