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Briscoe tops final practice at Texas

Ryan Briscoe topped the second IndyCar practice session at Texas Motor Speedway ahead of Saturday's Twin 275s

The Penske driver set his best lap at 214.373mph early on and was never bettered, with KV Racing's Takuma Sato shooting towards the top with a 213.898mph. Up to that point the best of the rest had been JR Hildebrand, who ended the evening in third place for Panther.

Fourth place for Will Power completed a relatively solid day's work for Penske, although Helio Castroneves was unable to find the pace to go any quicker than 13th-fastest. Main rival Ganassi's cars were a few spots ahead, with Scott Dixon and Dario Franchitti finishing eighth and ninth respectively.

Surprise polesitter Alex Tagliani had a low-key session and finished 19th in the Sam Schmidt entry.

Pos  Driver               Team               Time      Gap
 1.  Ryan Briscoe         Penske             24.4341s
 2.  Takuma Sato          KV                 24.4883s  + 0.0542s
 3.  JR Hildebrand        Panther            24.4972s  + 0.0631s
 4.  Will Power           Penske             24.5037s  + 0.0696s
 5.  James Hinchcliffe    Newman/Haas        24.5126s  + 0.0785s
 6.  Tony Kanaan          KV                 24.5144s  + 0.0803s
 7.  EJ Viso              KV                 24.5468s  + 0.1127s
 8.  Scott Dixon          Ganassi            24.5498s  + 0.1157s
 9.  Dario Franchitti     Ganassi            24.5620s  + 0.1279s
10.  Paul Tracy           Dragon             24.6003s  + 0.1662s
11.  Justin Wilson        Dreyer & Reinbold  24.6053s  + 0.1712s
12.  Marco Andretti       Andretti           24.6059s  + 0.1718s
13.  Charlie Kimball      Ganassi            24.6072s  + 0.1731s
14.  Helio Castroneves    Penske             24.6327s  + 0.1986s
15.  Ed Carpenter         Sarah Fisher       24.6330s  + 0.1989s
16.  Wade Cunningham      Sam Schmidt        24.6748s  + 0.2407s
17.  Ana Beatriz          Dreyer & Reinbold  24.6818s  + 0.2477s
18.  Vitor Meira          Foyt               24.6830s  + 0.2489s
19.  Alex Tagliani        Sam Schmidt        24.6945s  + 0.2604s
20.  Danica Patrick       Andretti           24.6991s  + 0.2650s
21.  Oriol Servia         Newman/Haas        24.6999s  + 0.2658s
22.  Davey Hamilton       Dreyer & Reinbold  24.7211s  + 0.2870s
23.  Alex Lloyd           Dale Coyne         24.7232s  + 0.2891s
24.  James Jakes          Dale Coyne         24.7252s  + 0.2911s
25.  Mike Conway          Andretti           24.7493s  + 0.3152s
26.  Jay Howard           Schmidt/Rahal      24.7620s  + 0.3279s
27.  Simona de Silvestro  HVM                24.7652s  + 0.3311s
28.  Ryan Hunter-Reay     Andretti           24.7763s  + 0.3422s
29.  Sebastian Saavedra   Conquest           24.7878s  + 0.3537s
30.  Graham Rahal         Ganassi            24.8605s  + 0.4264s

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