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Indianapolis road course: Helio Castroneves fastest in practice

Helio Castroneves waited until the final seconds to secure the top spot in today's third IndyCar practice session on the IMS road course

The Team Penske driver was one of a cluster of drivers to save their best for last and he secured P1 with a lap of 1m10.3756s, squeaking ahead of Sebastien Bourdais by a scant 0.02s.

Close as the times were, the tiny margins only become really apparent with a look further down the timesheets, where the top five were all covered by just over 0.1s.

Early indications that some teams have come to grips with things earlier than others seemed to be borne out by the fact that the top six consisted of exactly the same drivers as yesterday's second session, with Bourdais and Scott Dixon mixing it up with the four Penskes.

Graham Rahal continued to lead the charge for the Honda-powered drivers, although this time he was isolated in the top 10, and a further 0.2s adrift of the frontrunners compared with yesterday afternoon.

FREE PRACTICE TIMES

Pos Driver Team Car Time Gap
1 Helio Castroneves Team Penske Dallara/Chevrolet 1m10.3756s -
2 Sebastien Bourdais KVSH Racing Dallara/Chevrolet 1m10.4013s 0.0257s
3 Simon Pagenaud Team Penske Dallara/Chevrolet 1m10.4777s 0.1021s
4 Will Power Team Penske Dallara/Chevrolet 1m10.5038s 0.1282s
5 Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing Dallara/Chevrolet 1m10.5239s 0.1483s
6 Juan Pablo Montoya Team Penske Dallara/Chevrolet 1m10.7960s 0.4204s
7 Tony Kanaan Chip Ganassi Racing Dallara/Chevrolet 1m10.9577s 0.5821s
8 Graham Rahal Rahal Letterman Lanigan Dallara/Honda 1m11.0405s 0.6649s
9 Charlie Kimball Chip Ganassi Racing Dallara/Chevrolet 1m11.0646s 0.6890s
10 Stefano Coletti KV Racing Technology Dallara/Chevrolet 1m11.1248s 0.7492s
11 Takuma Sato AJ Foyt Enterprises Dallara/Honda 1m11.1442s 0.7686s
12 Sebastian Saavedra Chip Ganassi Racing Dallara/Chevrolet 1m11.2884s 0.9128s
13 Jack Hawksworth AJ Foyt Enterprises Dallara/Honda 1m11.3225s 0.9469s
14 Luca Filippi CFH Racing Dallara/Chevrolet 1m11.3626s 0.9870s
15 Gabby Chaves Bryan Herta Autosport Dallara/Honda 1m11.3677s 0.9921s
16 Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti Autosport Dallara/Honda 1m11.4207s 1.0451s
17 Josef Newgarden CFH Racing Dallara/Chevrolet 1m11.4305s 1.0549s
18 J.R. Hildebrand CFH Racing Dallara/Chevrolet 1m11.4546s 1.0790s
19 James Jakes Schmidt Peterson Motorsports Dallara/Honda 1m11.4629s 1.0873s
20 James Hinchcliffe Schmidt Peterson Motorsports Dallara/Honda 1m11.5019s 1.1263s
21 Marco Andretti Andretti Autosport Dallara/Honda 1m11.6401s 1.2645s
22 Carlos Munoz Andretti Autosport Dallara/Honda 1m11.6544s 1.2788s
23 Justin Wilson Andretti Autosport Dallara/Honda 1m11.8104s 1.4348s
24 Carlos Huertas Dale Coyne Racing Dallara/Honda 1m12.2325s 1.8569s
25 Francesco Dracone Dale Coyne Racing Dallara/Honda 1m12.6831s 2.3075s

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