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Dario Franchitti leads Ganassi one-two in delayed Texas IndyCar practice

Dario Franchitti topped a delayed opening practice session for this weekend's IndyCar race at Texas Motor Speedway

Franchitti set the marker with a best lap of 24.3941s (214.724mph) to put him just ahead of Chip Ganassi Racing team-mate Scott Dixon, who was 0.0512 seconds off the Scot's pace.

Josef Newgarden (Sarah Fisher Hartman) and Alex Tagliani (Bryan Herta Autosport) completed a Honda 1-2-3-4 for the session, with KV Racing's Tony Kanaan quickest of the Chevrolet-powered runners with a 213.600mph lap.

The cars were just over an hour late in taking to the track to allow time for sections left damp from recent rain to be dried out, but once it got underway, the session ran uninterrupted save for a couple of brief spells under yellow for track inspections.

The delay has forced a minor change to the day's schedule, with qualifying now pencilled in for 4pm local time. The evening practice session will remain at its original time of 6:45pm.

Pos  Driver               Team/Car                Time      Gap
 1.  Dario Franchitti     Ganassi DW12-Honda      24.3941s
 2.  Scott Dixon          Ganassi DW12-Honda      24.4453s  + 0.0512s
 3.  Josef Newgarden      Fisher DW12-Honda       24.4600s  + 0.0659s
 4.  Alex Tagliani        Herta DW12-Honda        24.4806s  + 0.0865s
 5.  Tony Kanaan          KV DW12-Chevy           24.5225s  + 0.1284s
 6.  Ryan Hunter-Reay     Andretti DW12-Chevy     24.5334s  + 0.1393s
 7.  EJ Viso              KV DW12-Chevy           24.5365s  + 0.1424s
 8.  Simon Pagenaud       Schmidt DW12-Honda      24.5459s  + 0.1518s
 9.  James Hinchcliffe    Andretti DW12-Chevy     24.5698s  + 0.1757s
10.  Graham Rahal         Ganassi DW12-Honda      24.5708s  + 0.1767s
11.  Ryan Briscoe         Penske DW12-Chevy       24.5909s  + 0.1968s
12.  Mike Conway          Foyt DW12-Honda         24.6013s  + 0.2072s
13.  Ed Carpenter         Carpenter DW12-Chevy    24.6256s  + 0.2315s
14.  Takuma Sato          Rahal DW12-Honda        24.6772s  + 0.2831s
15.  Charlie Kimball      Ganassi DW12-Honda      24.7030s  + 0.3089s
16.  Rubens Barrichello   KV DW12-Chevy           24.7041s  + 0.3100s
17.  Oriol Servia         Panther/DRR DW12-Chevy  24.7048s  + 0.3107s
18.  Will Power           Penske DW12-Chevy       24.7106s  + 0.3165s
19.  Helio Castroneves    Penske DW12-Chevy       24.7357s  + 0.3416s
20.  JR Hildebrand        Panther DW12-Chevy      24.7388s  + 0.3447s
21.  Marco Andretti       Andretti DW12-Chevy     24.7808s  + 0.3867s
22.  Justin Wilson        Coyne DW12-Honda        24.8158s  + 0.4217s
23.  James Jakes          Coyne DW12-Honda        24.9809s  + 0.5868s
24.  Katherine Legge      Dragon DW12-Chevy       25.2449s  + 0.8508s
25.  Simona de Silvestro  HVM DW12-Lotus          25.6725s  + 1.2784s

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