Texas IndyCar: Tony Kanaan tops evening practice session
Tony Kanaan topped the second and final practice session before Saturday night's IndyCar race at Texas Motor Speedway
Kanaan went to the top shortly after the start of the Friday evening session with a 218.551mph lap for KV, and his speed remained unbeaten.
Andretti's James Hinchcliffe came closest with a 217.575mph effort, with polesitter Will Power rounding out the top three.
While the session was largely uneventful, it did reveal that Dale Coyne Racing's Justin Wilson's battle to get on pace with the rest of the pack is not yet over.
The Brit struggled during the opening session with a major imbalance on his car, and while he later reported that the cause of the problem had been identified, his team was not left with enough time to find a set-up.
Last year's Texas winner finished the evening almost nine miles per hour down on the leaders.
Meanwhile, Simon Pagenaud has become the third driver to have been issued a 10-place grid penalty for an engine change.
As was the case with Schmidt Peterson team-mate Tristan Vautier, the Detroit race-winner's penalty was issued due to his engine being changed before it reached the minimum threshold of 2000 miles.
The other affected driver, KV's Simona de Silvestro, was penalised on the grounds that engine manufacturer Chevrolet did not inform IndyCar officials of an engine failure within five hours of the end of last week's Detroit race.
Pos Driver Team/Engine Time Gap 1. Tony Kanaan KV/Chevy 23.9670s 2. James Hinchcliffe Andretti/Chevy 24.0745s + 0.1075s 3. Will Power Penske/Chevy 24.1234s + 0.1564s 4. Scott Dixon Ganassi/Honda 24.1705s + 0.2035s 5. James Jakes Rahal/Honda 24.1859s + 0.2189s 6. Takuma Sato Foyt/Honda 24.2885s + 0.3215s 7. Simona de Silvestro KV/Chevy 24.3826s + 0.4156s 8. Simon Pagenaud Schmidt/Honda 24.3870s + 0.4200s 9. Dario Franchitti Ganassi/Honda 24.4126s + 0.4456s 10. Pippa Mann Coyne/Honda 24.5101s + 0.5431s 11. Josef Newgarden Fisher/Honda 24.5299s + 0.5629s 12. Ed Carpenter Carpenter/Chevy 24.5381s + 0.5711s 13. Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti/Chevy 24.5871s + 0.6201s 14. Oriol Servia Panther/Chevy 24.6113s + 0.6443s 15. Helio Castroneves Penske/Chevy 24.6493s + 0.6823s 16. Sebastian Bourdais Dragon/Chevy 24.6741s + 0.7071s 17. Tristan Vautier Schmidt/Honda 24.6820s + 0.7150s 18. Alex Tagliani Herta/Honda 24.8055s + 0.8385s 19. EJ Viso Andretti/Chevy 24.8294s + 0.8624s 20. Sebastian Saavedra Dragon/Chevy 24.8489s + 0.8819s 21. Charlie Kimball Ganassi/Honda 24.8847s + 0.9177s 22. Graham Rahal Rahal/Honda 24.9180s + 0.9510s 23. Marco Andretti Andretti/Chevy 24.9259s + 0.9589s 24. Justin Wilson Coyne/Honda 24.9902s + 1.0232s All drivers use Dallara DW12 chassis
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