Milwaukee IndyCar: Josef Newgarden heads first practice session

The CFH driver shot to P1 in the closing minutes with a fastest lap of 21.5415 seconds 169.628mph to beat the previous benchmark of 21,5692s and 168.777mph set by Takuma Sato, who himself had only assumed the role of leader after Tony Kanaan had dug himself in at the top for most of the session.

While Kanaan's 167.702mph lap remained unbeaten for more than an hour, the Brazilian was unable to improve on it as the session progressed and he finished the afternoon fifth-fastest.

Team Penske's Simon Pagenaud made a late jump to finish up in P2 on a day where his team-mates found themselves 10th (Will Power), 11th (Helio Castroneves) and 15th (Juan Pablo Montoya).

Aside from two brief spells under yellows for debris the session passed mostly without incident, and all teams managed to complete a solid amount of running. KV rookie Stefano Coletti topped the lap count at 98.

In an innovative schedule, both qualifying and the race take place on Sunday this weekend, with a three-hour gap between them.

PRACTICE TIMES:

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Time	Gap
1	Josef Newgarden	CFH Racing	Dallara/Chevrolet	21.5415s	-
2	Simon Pagenaud	Team Penske	Dallara/Chevrolet	21.5692s	0.0277s
3	Takuma Sato	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara/Honda	21.6499s	0.1084s
4	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan	Dallara/Honda	21.7379s	0.1964s
5	Tony Kanaan	Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara/Chevrolet	21.7886s	0.2471s
6	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara/Chevrolet	21.8247s	0.2832s
7	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Dallara/Honda	21.9394s	0.3979s
8	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske	Dallara/Chevrolet	21.9746s	0.4331s
9	James Jakes	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Dallara/Honda	21.9791s	0.4376s
10	Will Power	Team Penske	Dallara/Chevrolet	21.9941s	0.4526s
11	Ryan Briscoe	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Dallara/Honda	22.0131s	0.4716s
12	Sebastien Bourdais	KVSH Racing	Dallara/Chevrolet	22.0720s	0.5305s
13	Charlie Kimball	Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara/Chevrolet	22.1151s	0.5736s
14	Carlos Munoz	Andretti Autosport	Dallara/Honda	22.1349s	0.5934s
15	Juan Pablo Montoya	Team Penske	Dallara/Chevrolet	22.1818s	0.6403s
16	Justin Wilson	Andretti Autosport	Dallara/Honda	22.2474s	0.7059s
17	Sage Karam	Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara/Chevrolet	22.2536s	0.7121s
18	Gabby Chaves	Bryan Herta Autosport	Dallara/Honda	22.2622s	0.7207s
19	Tristan Vautier	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara/Honda	22.2784s	0.7369s
20	Jack Hawksworth	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara/Honda	22.2909s	0.7494s
21	Stefano Coletti	KV Racing Technology	Dallara/Chevrolet	22.3075s	0.7660s
22	Ed Carpenter	CFH Racing	Dallara/Chevrolet	22.4374s	0.8959s
23	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Dallara/Honda	22.6662s	1.1247s
24	Pippa Mann	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara/Honda	23.4648s	1.9233s