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Fontana IndyCar: Will Power tops opening session for Penske

Will Power opened this weekend's IndyCar season finale at Fontana by setting the fastest time in the first practice session

Penske driver Power set the 220.889mph benchmark right at the beginning of the 90-minute session and it held right through to the end.

KV's Tony Kanaan came closest to matching it, but the Indianapolis 500 winner's best effort was still 1mph shy of the Australian's time.

James Hinchcliffe and AJ Allmendinger were third and fourth-fastest, the latter having been entered in a third Penske car for the weekend to assist with Helio Castroneves' title bid. The Brazilian finished the morning with the fifth-best time, putting him one place ahead of championship rival Scott Dixon.

The session was red-flagged twice following heavy accidents at Turn 4.

Pippa Mann, who takes over the second Dale Coyne Racing entry this weekend, caught a seam and crashed heavily into the wall on her seventh lap; her badly damaged car eventually spinning to a stop on the track's apron.

Later, Takuma Sato did almost exactly the same thing, and with more or less identical results. Both drivers were checked and cleared by IndyCar's medical team.

Meanwhile, Carlos Munoz was confirmed as the stand-in for EJ Viso in Andretti Autosport's #5 car. The Venezuelan withdrew from the race last night citing an illness. Munoz was 24th fastest.

Pos  Driver               Team/Engine        Time     Gap      Speed
 1.  Will Power           Penske/Chevy       32.596s           220.889
 2.  Tony Kanaan          KV/Chevy           32.758s  +0.162s  219.796
 3.  James Hinchcliffe    Andretti/Chevy     32.805s  +0.209s  219.479
 4.  AJ Allmendinger      Penske/Chevy       32.870s  +0.275s  219.045
 5.  Helio Castroneves    Penske/Chevy       32.937s  +0.341s  218.601
 6.  Scott Dixon          Ganassi/Honda      32.953s  +0.357s  218.495
 7.  Marco Andretti       Andretti/Chevy     32.955s  +0.359s  218.483
 8.  Oriol Servia         Panther/Chevy      32.963s  +0.368s  218.426
 9.  James Jakes          Rahal/Honda        33.038s  +0.443s  217.930
10.  Ryan Hunter-Reay     Andretti/Chevy     33.060s  +0.465s  217.786
11.  Justin Wilson        Coyne/Honda        33.085s  +0.489s  217.622
12.  Alex Tagliani        Ganassi/Honda      33.104s  +0.509s  217.495
13.  Josef Newgarden      Fisher/Honda       33.129s  +0.533s  217.335
14.  Takuma Sato          Foyt/Honda         33.153s  +0.557s  217.176
15.  Simon Pagenaud       Schmidt/Honda      33.168s  +0.572s  217.079
16.  Sebastien Bourdais   Dragon/Chevy       33.218s  +0.623s  216.749
17.  Charlie Kimball      Ganassi/Honda      33.271s  +0.676s  216.402
18.  Simona de Silvestro  KV/Chevy           33.348s  +0.753s  215.905
19.  Tristan Vautier      Schmidt/Honda      33.353s  +0.757s  215.875
20.  Ed Carpenter         Carpenter/Chevy    33.354s  +0.758s  215.867
21.  Graham Rahal         Rahal/Honda        33.355s  +0.760s  215.859
22.  Pippa Mann           Coyne/Honda        33.439s  +0.843s  215.318
23.  JR Hildebrand        Herta/Honda        33.457s  +0.861s  215.204
24.  Carlos Munoz         Andretti/Chevy     33.511s  +0.916s  214.853
25   Sebastia Saavedra    Dragon/Chevy       33.610s  +1.014s  214.224
All drivers use Dallara DW12 chassis

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