Long Beach IndyCar: James Hinchcliffe pips Mike Conway in practice
A late lap from James Hinchcliffe denied Mike Conway the chance to take the opening honours in Friday's first IndyCar practice session at Long Beach
Conway, making a one-off IndyCar return in a third Rahal Letterman Lanigan entry this weekend, held the top spot for much of the morning before Hinchcliffe unseated him with a 1m09.8157s effort in his Andretti car.
That cleared Conway's time by 0.0133 seconds, leaving the Brit second-fastest ahead of Foyt's Takuma Sato, who had also vaulted up the order in the final minutes.
Simona de Silvestro owned the second-fastest time during the first half of the session before eventually finishing up fourth on the timesheets ahead of Ryan Hunter-Reay, Justin Wilson and Scott Dixon.
The only incident came with two minutes remaining when Josef Newgarden skated into the Turn 9 run-off and stalled, prompting race control to end the session early.
Pos Driver Team/Car Time Gap 1. James Hinchcliffe Andretti Dallara-Chevy 1m09.8157s 2. Mike Conway Rahal Dallara-Honda 1m09.8290s + 0.0133s 3. Takuma Sato Foyt Dallara-Honda 1m10.0180s + 0.2023s 4. Simona de Silvestro KV Dallara-Chevy 1m10.0767s + 0.2610s 5. Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti Dallara-Chevy 1m10.0834s + 0.2677s 6. Justin Wilson Coyne Dallara-Honda 1m10.1028s + 0.2871s 7. Scott Dixon Ganassi Dallara-Honda 1m10.1479s + 0.3322s 8. Graham Rahal Rahal Dallara-Honda 1m10.1906s + 0.3749s 9. Josef Newgarden Fisher Dallara-Honda 1m10.2081s + 0.3924s 10. JR Hildebrand Panther Dallara-Chevy 1m10.4001s + 0.5844s 11. James Jakes Rahal Dallara-Honda 1m10.4236s + 0.6079s 12. Simon Pagenaud Schmidt Dallara-Honda 1m10.4703s + 0.6546s 13. Will Power Penske Dallara-Chevy 1m10.4809s + 0.6652s 14. Dario Franchitti Ganassi Dallara-Honda 1m10.4976s + 0.6819s 15. Helio Castroneves Penske Dallara-Chevy 1m10.6486s + 0.8329s 16. Tony Kanaan KV Dallara-Chevy 1m10.7120s + 0.8963s 17. Marco Andretti Andretti Dallara-Chevy 1m10.7322s + 0.9165s 18. Charlie Kimball Ganassi Dallara-Honda 1m10.8156s + 0.9999s 19. Sebastien Bourdais Dragon Dallara-Chevy 1m10.8196s + 1.0039s 20. EJ Viso Andretti Dallara-Chevy 1m10.8341s + 1.0184s 21. Tristan Vautier Schmidt Dallara-Honda 1m10.8972s + 1.0815s 22. Ana Beatriz Coyne Dallara-Honda 1m11.0011s + 1.1854s 23. Alex Tagliani Herta Dallara-Honda 1m11.0580s + 1.2423s 24. Oriol Servia Panther/DRR Dallara-Chevy 1m11.0586s + 1.2429s 25. Sebastian Saavedra Dragon Dallara-Chevy 1m11.0693s + 1.2536s 26. AJ Allmendinger Penske Dallara-Chevy 1m11.1686s + 1.3529s 27. Ed Carpenter Carpenter Dallara-Chevy 1m12.2408s + 2.4251s
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