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Franchitti leads second practice

Dario Franchitti kept Ganassi in front in the final free practice session ahead of IndyCar Series qualifying at Iowa Speedway

After his team-mate Scott Dixon had led the morning session, Franchitti moved to the front of the field this afternoon with a time of 17.6856 seconds.

Franchitti's late lap usurped Penske driver Ryan Briscoe, who had missed much of the morning with fuel pump problems but recovered to set the pace in the first half of the split group session having studied team-mate Helio Castroneves' data from earlier.

Castroneves briefly held third in the closing minutes before Andretti Green's Tony Kanaan reclaimed the spot.

Dan Wheldon led the first group for a while for Panther Racing but was eventually pushed back to fifth overall, ahead of Dixon and KV Racing's Mario Moraes.

Behind eighth-placed Danica Patrick (AGR), Tomas Scheckter continued Dreyer & Reinbold's strong day with another ninth place. Graham Rahal completed the top ten for Newman/Haas/Lanigan.

Only 19 cars took part in the session as AGR worked to ready Marco Andretti's back-up car following the heavy accident that put his primary chassis out of commission this morning.

Pos  Driver             Team                 Time      Gap
 1.  Dario Franchitti   Ganassi              17.6805s
 2.  Ryan Briscoe       Penske               17.6896s  + 0.0091s
 3.  Tony Kanaan        Andretti Green       17.6928s  + 0.0123s
 4.  Helio Castroneves  Penske               17.6953s  + 0.0148s
 5.  Dan Wheldon        Panther              17.7616s  + 0.0811s
 6.  Scott Dixon        Ganassi              17.7770s  + 0.0965s
 7.  Mario Moraes       KV                   17.7802s  + 0.0997s
 8.  Danica Patrick     Andretti Green       17.8206s  + 0.1401s
 9.  Tomas Scheckter    Dreyer & Reinbold    17.8387s  + 0.1582s
10.  Graham Rahal       Newman/Haas/Lanigan  17.8465s  + 0.1660s
11.  EJ Viso            HVM                  17.8611s  + 0.1806s
12.  Hideki Mutoh       Andretti Green       17.8713s  + 0.1908s
13.  Ryan Hunter-Reay   Foyt                 17.9699s  + 0.2894s
14.  Justin Wilson      Coyne                17.9704s  + 0.2899s
15.  Ed Carpenter       Vision               17.9706s  + 0.2901s
16.  Mike Conway        Dreyer & Reinbold    17.9802s  + 0.2997s
17.  Robert Doornbos    Newman/Haas/Lanigan  18.0450s  + 0.3645s
18.  Raphael Matos      Luczo Dragon         18.0581s  + 0.3776s
19.  Jaques Lazier      3G                   18.5106s  + 0.8301s
20.  Marco Andretti     Andretti Green

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