Juan Pablo Montoya tops first Long Beach IndyCar practice
Juan Pablo Montoya led team-mate Will Power in a Penske one-two in Friday morning practice for IndyCar's Long Beach round
Montoya, whose first CART race win came at the famous Californian street track in 1999, deposed early pacesetter Takuma Sato with a 1m08.3089s halfway through the session and later improved to a 1m08.1290s to cement his top spot.
Power ended up 0.2424 seconds adrift.
While Sato eventually fell to fifth, his AJ Foyt Racing team-mate Jack Hawksworth recovered from an early spin to jump to third late on.
Josef Newgarden split the Foyt cars, with James Hinchcliffe completing the top six.
Ryan Hunter-Reay and Scott Dixon led the Andretti and Ganassi teams respectively in seventh and 10th, sandwiching Helio Castroneves and Carlos Munoz.
Championship leader Simon Pagenaud kicked off his weekend with a conservative 18th.
Practice was red-flagged for a while so Alexander Rossi's Andretti entry could be retrieved from the tyre wall after he crashed at the Turn 8 right-hander leading onto the back straight.
Fellow young American Charlie Kimball had an incident at the other end of that straight in the final minutes when he slid down the escape road and his Ganassi Dallara-Chevrolet's front brakes caught fire as he tried to navigate his way back out.
PRACTICE ONE TIMES
| Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Time | Gap | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Juan Pablo Montoya | Team Penske | Dallara/Chevrolet | 1m08.1290s | - | 14 |
| 2 | Will Power | Team Penske | Dallara/Chevrolet | 1m08.3714s | 0.2424s | 18 |
| 3 | Jack Hawksworth | AJ Foyt Enterprises | Dallara/Honda | 1m08.4839s | 0.3549s | 11 |
| 4 | Josef Newgarden | Ed Carpenter Racing | Dallara/Chevrolet | 1m08.6050s | 0.4760s | 18 |
| 5 | Takuma Sato | AJ Foyt Enterprises | Dallara/Honda | 1m08.7097s | 0.5807s | 11 |
| 6 | James Hinchcliffe | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports | Dallara/Honda | 1m08.7565s | 0.6275s | 15 |
| 7 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | Andretti Autosport | Dallara/Honda | 1m08.7614s | 0.6324s | 16 |
| 8 | Helio Castroneves | Team Penske | Dallara/Chevrolet | 1m08.8984s | 0.7694s | 15 |
| 9 | Carlos Munoz | Andretti Autosport | Dallara/Honda | 1m08.9080s | 0.7790s | 17 |
| 10 | Scott Dixon | Chip Ganassi Racing | Dallara/Chevrolet | 1m08.9511s | 0.8221s | 13 |
| 11 | Sebastien Bourdais | KVSH Racing | Dallara/Chevrolet | 1m08.9621s | 0.8331s | 16 |
| 12 | Graham Rahal | Rahal Letterman Lanigan | Dallara/Honda | 1m08.9825s | 0.8535s | 17 |
| 13 | Charlie Kimball | Chip Ganassi Racing | Dallara/Chevrolet | 1m09.0566s | 0.9276s | 17 |
| 14 | Marco Andretti | Andretti Autosport | Dallara/Honda | 1m09.2039s | 1.0749s | 18 |
| 15 | Mikhail Aleshin | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports | Dallara/Honda | 1m09.2190s | 1.0900s | 19 |
| 16 | Tony Kanaan | Chip Ganassi Racing | Dallara/Chevrolet | 1m09.2330s | 1.1040s | 14 |
| 17 | Conor Daly | Dale Coyne Racing | Dallara/Honda | 1m09.3633s | 1.2343s | 20 |
| 18 | Simon Pagenaud | Team Penske | Dallara/Chevrolet | 1m09.4132s | 1.2842s | 14 |
| 19 | Max Chilton | Chip Ganassi Racing | Dallara/Chevrolet | 1m09.5736s | 1.4446s | 19 |
| 20 | Luca Filippi | Dale Coyne Racing | Dallara/Honda | 1m09.6863s | 1.5573s | 18 |
| 21 | Alexander Rossi | Andretti Herta | Dallara/Honda | 1m10.0221s | 1.8931s | 8 |
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