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Iowa IndyCar: Tony Kanaan quickest in practice

Tony Kanaan set the pace in the opening session for this weekend's IndyCar race at Iowa Speedway

The Indianapolis 500 winner moved to the top with a 184.063mph lap for KV just under five minutes before the session ended, beating the previous benchmark of 183.100mph that had been set by Marco Andretti.

For most of the session, Andretti's time looked untouchable, and it was over an hour before anybody else even broke into the 181mph range.

But times fell quickly over the last few minutes, and Will Power was able to leapfrog the Andretti driver in the final moments to go second-fastest for Penske.

Saturday morning's outing was the only practice session of the weekend due to Iowa's unique qualifying system, which starts with a single flying-lap format before leading into three evening heat races, the outcome of which will be used to decide the grid for Sunday's race.

Pos  Driver               Team/Engine      Time       Gap
 1.  Tony Kanaan          KV/Chevy         17.4853s
 2.  Will Power           Penske/Chevy     17.5292s  +0.0439s
 3.  Marco Andretti       Andretti/Chevy   17.5773s  +0.0920s
 4.  Helio Castroneves    Penske/Chevy     17.5905s  +0.1052s
 5.  Scott Dixon          Ganassi/Honda    17.6022s  +0.1169s
 6.  EJ Viso              Andretti/Chevy   17.6705s  +0.1852s
 7.  James Hinchcliffe    Andretti/Chevy   17.7102s  +0.2249s
 8.  James Jakes          Coyne/Honda      17.7264s  +0.2411s
 9.  Ed Carpenter         Carpenter/Chevy  17.7588s  +0.2735s
10.  Simon Pagenaud       Schmidt/Honda    17.8281s  +0.3428s
11.  Sebastien Bourdais   Dragon/Chevy     17.8318s  +0.3465s
12.  Alex Tagliani        Herta/Honda      17.8466s  +0.3613s
13.  Ryan Hunter-Reay     Andretti/Chevy   17.8534s  +0.3681s
14.  Tristan Vautier      Schmidt/Honda    17.8607s  +0.3754s
15.  Josef Newgarden      Fisher/Honda     17.8615s  +0.3762s
16.  Dario Franchitti     Ganassi/Honda    17.8915s  +0.4062s
17.  Graham Rahal         Rahal/Honda      17.9415s  +0.4562s
18.  Oriol Servia         Panther/Chevy    17.9674s  +0.4821s
19.  Takuma Sato          Foyt/Honda       18.0014s  +0.5161s
20.  Justin Wilson        Coyne/Honda      18.0896s  +0.6043s
21.  Charlie Kimball      Ganassi/Honda    18.0938s  +0.6085s
22.  Simona de Silvestro  KV/Chevy         18.2341s  +0.7488s
23.  Sebastian Saavedra   Dragon/Chevy     18.2621s  +0.7768s
24.  Ana Beatriz          Coyne/Honda      18.3702s  +0.8849s

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