Pocono IndyCar: Charlie Kimball leads Ganassi one-two in practice

The Ganassi driver was the first to top the 219.365mph benchmark set by team-mate Sage Karam in the earlier rookie session, and improved his time again later to settle at 40.6554 seconds and 221.373mph.

Karam also improved upon his own speed to 220.788mph to end the morning second-fastest for a Ganassi one-two, leaving Penske's Simon Pagenaud to complete the top three just ahead of team-mate and championship leader Juan Pablo Montoya.

Montoya's main title rival Graham Rahal had a quiet start to the weekend, and spent the first half of the session towards the bottom of the timesheets before eventually climbing to 11th.

He'll draw some encouragement from the pace of some of his other Honda-powered counterparts, with Takuma Sato and Marco Andretti finishing up fifth- and sixth-fastest respectively.

A mostly incident-free morning was punctuated by a solitary late caution when KV rookie Stefano Coletti brushed the wall.

PRACTICE TIMES:

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Time	Gap	Speed	Laps
1	Charlie Kimball	Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara/Chevrolet	40.6554s	-	221.373	52
2	Sage Karam	Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara/Chevrolet	40.7631s	0.1077s	220.788	83
3	Simon Pagenaud	Team Penske	Dallara/Chevrolet	40.7924s	0.1370s	220.629	47
4	Juan Pablo Montoya	Team Penske	Dallara/Chevrolet	40.8504s	0.1950s	220.316	43
5	Takuma Sato	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara/Honda	40.8695s	0.2141s	220.213	35
6	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Dallara/Honda	40.8726s	0.2172s	220.196	33
7	Will Power	Team Penske	Dallara/Chevrolet	40.8908s	0.2354s	220.098	42
8	Tony Kanaan	Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara/Chevrolet	40.9153s	0.2599s	219.967	47
9	Carlos Munoz	Andretti Autosport	Dallara/Honda	41.0122s	0.3568s	219.447	42
10	Jack Hawksworth	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara/Honda	41.0406s	0.3852s	219.295	30
11	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan	Dallara/Honda	41.0645s	0.4091s	219.167	39
12	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske	Dallara/Chevrolet	41.1331s	0.4777s	218.802	45
13	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Dallara/Honda	41.1403s	0.4849s	218.764	37
14	Tristan Vautier	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara/Honda	41.1688s	0.5134s	218.612	47
15	Justin Wilson	Andretti Autosport	Dallara/Honda	41.2254s	0.5700s	218.312	42
16	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara/Chevrolet	41.2293s	0.5739s	218.291	38
17	Stefano Coletti	KV Racing Technology	Dallara/Chevrolet	41.2968s	0.6414s	217.935	61
18	Josef Newgarden	CFH Racing	Dallara/Chevrolet	41.3023s	0.6469s	217.906	35
19	Gabby Chaves	Bryan Herta Autosport	Dallara/Honda	41.3361s	0.6807s	217.727	82
20	Ryan Briscoe	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Dallara/Honda	41.3771s	0.7217s	217.512	40
21	Sebastien Bourdais	KVSH Racing	Dallara/Chevrolet	41.4350s	0.7796s	217.208	35
22	Pippa Mann	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara/Honda	41.6247s	0.9693s	216.218	52
23	James Jakes	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Dallara/Honda	41.6848s	1.0294s	215.906	30
24	Ed Carpenter	CFH Racing	Dallara/Chevrolet	41.7024s	1.0470s	215.815	44