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St Petersburg IndyCar: Takuma Sato quickest in second practice

Takuma Sato took the honours in the second practice session for this weekend's IndyCar season-opener at St Petersburg by edging out Graham Rahal to set the fastest time

Sato's best lap of 1m02.5615s came near the end of his run, and was enough to keep the AJ Foyt driver ahead of fellow Honda driver Rahal by 0.05s.

Third fastest Will Power was again the best of the Chevy entries with a time just 0.03s down on Rahal's.

Minor incidents prompted three brief spells under red flags; the first coming early on courtesy of a spin by new KV signing Sebastian Saavedra.

That was followed later by Josef Newgarden, who was pitched into the run-off after suffering a steering problem, and the hat-trick was completed when BHA rookie Jack Hawksworth had a minor brush with the tyres at Turn 12 with five minutes left on the clock.

The Briton was able to return his car to the pits under its own power.

As was the case this morning, Ryan Briscoe was the fastest of the Ganassi drivers with a time that was good enough for sixth fastest, two places ahead of reigning champion Scott Dixon.

Further back, Juan Pablo Montoya continued the process of reacquainting himself with street courses after a six-year break and ended the session in 19th.

Pos Driver               Team/Engine         Time        Gap      Laps
 1. Takuma Sato          Foyt/Honda          1m02.5615s            23
 2. Graham Rahal         Rahal/Honda         1m02.6122s  +0.0507s  23
 3. Will Power           Penske/Chevy        1m02.6443s  +0.0321s  25
 4. Helio Castroneves    Penske/Chevy        1m02.8178s  +0.1735s  24
 5. Simon Pagenaud       Schmidt/Honda       1m02.9129s  +0.0951s  21
 6. Ryan Briscoe         Ganassi/Chevy       1m03.0142s  +0.1013s  17
 7. James Hinchcliffe    Andretti/Honda      1m03.0301s  +0.0159s  16
 8. Scott Dixon          Ganassi/Chevy       1m03.0510s  +0.0209s  24
 9. Sebastien Bourdais   KV/Chevy            1m03.0671s  +0.0161s  22
10. Jack Hawksworth      Herta/Honda         1m03.0793s  +0.0122s  18
11. Ryan Hunter-Reay     Andretti/Honda      1m03.1796s  +0.1003s  17
12. Carlos Munoz         Andretti/Honda      1m03.1814s  +0.0018s  21
13. Mikhail Aleshin      Schmidt/Honda       1m03.2045s  +0.0231s  21
14. Josef Newgarden      Fisher/Honda        1m03.2846s  +0.0801s  14
15. Tony Kanaan          Ganassi/Chevy       1m03.3067s  +0.0221s  19
16. Charlie Kimball      Ganassi/Chevy       1m03.3812s  +0.0745s  17
17. Marco Andretti       Andretti/Honda      1m03.4077s  +0.0265s  21
18. Juan Pablo Montoya   Penske/Chevy        1m03.4624s  +0.0547s  19
19. Justin Wilson        Coyne/Honda         1m03.5476s  +0.0852s  16
20. Mike Conway          Carpenter/Chevy     1m03.6336s  +0.0860s  21
21. Sebastian Saavedra   KV/Chevy            1m03.8422s  +0.2086s  19
22. Carlos Huertas       Coyne/Honda         1m04.3481s  +0.5059s  21


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