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Iowa IndyCar: Opening practice cancelled due to poor weather

Lightning strikes in the area surrounding Iowa Speedway forced the cancellation of Friday's opening IndyCar practice session on the 7/8th mile oval

The session ran under green conditions for just a few minutes before the first spots of rain forced the series to throw a caution.

Increasing electrical activity resulted in red, and then chequered, flags being shown a short time later.

The morning outing was originally scheduled to the only practice session before qualifying, however AUTOSPORT understands that IndyCar is looking at options to tweak the day's schedule to allow the teams additional time to prepare for the first short-oval race of the season.

At the time the session was stopped James Hinchcliffe was fastest with a best lap of 17.5249s at 183.647mph.

The only incident of note involved the Canadian's Andretti Autosport team-mate Ryan Hunter-Reay, whose car shed a rear wing endplate shortly after taking to the track for the first time.

Pos Driver               Team/Engine        Speed       Time      Gap
 1. James Hinchcliffe    Andretti/Honda     183.647mph  17.5249s
 2. Tony Kanaan          Ganassi/Chevy      183.562mph  17.5330s  +0.0081s 
 3. Carlos Munoz         Andretti/Honda     183.105mph  17.5768s  +0.0519s
 4. Charlie Kimball      Ganassi/Chevy      182.536mph  17.6316s  +0.1067s
 5. Marco Andretti       Andretti/Honda     182.255mph  17.6588s  +0.1339s
 6. Ryan Briscoe         Ganassi/Chevy      182.049mph  17.6788s  +0.1539s
 7. Will Power           Penske/Chevy       182.035mph  17.6801s  +0.1552s
 8. Juan Pablo Montoya   Penske/Chevy       181.975mph  17.6859s  +0.1610s
 9. Scott Dixon          Ganassi/Chevy      181.945mph  17.6889s  +0.1640s
10. Ryan Hunter-Reay     Andretti/Honda     181.903mph  17.6929s  +0.1680s
11. Josef Newgarden      Fisher/Honda       181.257mph  17.7560s  +0.2311s
12. Simon Pagenaud       Schmidt/Honda      180.245mph  17.8557s  +0.3308s
13. Graham Rahal         Rahal/Honda        180.154mph  17.8647s  +0.3398s
14. Mikhail Aleshin      Schmidt/Honda      180.117mph  17.8684s  +0.3435s
15. Justin Wilson        Coyne/Honda        179.964mph  17.8836s  +0.3587s
16. Ed Carpenter         Carpenter/Chevy    179.766mph  17.9033s  +0.3784s
17. Helio Castroneves    Penske/Chevy       179.722mph  17.9077s  +0.3828s
18. Sebastien Bourdais   KV/Chevy           179.508mph  17.9290s  +0.4041s
19. Takuma Sato          Foyt/Honda         179.333mph  17.9465s  +0.4216s
20. Carlos Huertas       Coyne/Honda        177.745mph  18.1068s  +0.5819s
21. Sebastian Saavedra   KV/Chevy           177.219mph  18.1606s  +0.6357s
22. Jack Hawksworth      Herta/Honda        173.298mph  18.5715s  +1.0466s

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