Briscoe fastest in practice two

The Penske driver, who turned his 2008 season around with victory at the one mile oval twelve months ago, beat Newman/Haas/Lanigan's Graham Rahal by 0.0152 seconds, with Tony Kanaan third for Andretti Green Racing.

All three were part of the first group to run in the split session, with Ganassi's Scott Dixon the best from group two in fourth overall, ahead of team-mate Dario Franchitti.

Mario Moraes continued to show strong oval pace with sixth for KV Racing, while last week's Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves was eighth in Penske's second car, behind Danica Patrick (AGR).

Raphael Matos was top rookie this time in ninth for Luczo Dragon Racing, just ahead of fellow newcomers Robert Doornbos (NHLR) and Mike Conway (Dreyer & Reinbold).

Paul Tracy struggled with understeer on his first day as a AJ Foyt Enterprises driver and was only 18th, while Panther's Dan Wheldon - who had lost most of first practice to a steering rack issue - was slowest of all and nearly two seconds off the pace.

Stanton Barrett has withdrawn from the meeting after heavily damaging his 3G car early in morning practice. His departure brings the field down to 20 entries as Conquest Racing is also skipping this event.

Pos  Driver             Team                 Time
 1.  Ryan Briscoe       Penske               21.7318s
 2.  Graham Rahal       Newman/Haas/Lanigan  21.7470s  + 0.0152s
 3.  Tony Kanaan        Andretti Green       21.9279s  + 0.1961s
 4.  Scott Dixon        Ganassi              21.9435s  + 0.2117s
 5.  Dario Franchitti   Ganassi              22.0206s  + 0.2888s
 6.  Mario Moraes       KV                   22.1076s  + 0.3758s
 7.  Danica Patrick     Andretti Green       22.1540s  + 0.4222s
 8.  Helio Castroneves  Penske               22.2096s  + 0.4778s
 9.  Raphael Matos      Luczo Dragon         22.3095s  + 0.5777s
10.  Robert Doornbos    Newman/Haas/Lanigan  22.3709s  + 0.6391s
11.  Mike Conway        Dreyer & Reinbold    22.5649s  + 0.8331s
12.  Hideki Mutoh       Andretti Green       22.5894s  + 0.8576s
13.  EJ Viso            HVM                  22.7124s  + 0.9806s
14.  Tomas Scheckter    Dreyer & Reinbold    22.7763s  + 1.0445s
15.  Ryan Hunter-Reay   Vision               22.8034s  + 1.0716s
16.  Justin Wilson      Coyne                22.8132s  + 1.0814s
17.  Marco Andretti     Andretti Green       22.8726s  + 1.1408s
18.  Paul Tracy         Foyt                 22.9209s  + 1.1891s
19.  Ed Carpenter       Vision               23.4762s  + 1.7444s
20.  Dan Wheldon        Panther              23.6632s  + 1.9314s