IndyCar – Will Power takes the lead

Best time in the second free practice session for the St Petersburg Grand Prix, Will Power leaves this evening with the best performance of the day. He precedes Scott Dixon and Simon Pagenaud.

Published on 12/03/2016 à 01:13

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Having made a mistake this morning, Will Power recovered well in St Petersburg, during the second free practice session of the opening round of theIndyCar Series 2016. And this despite a break of almost thirty minutes due to a damaged track. The Australian from Team Penske (Chevrolet) completed a lap of the Florida track in 1”00”9431, improving the time set this morning by simon pagenaud. Power was ahead of the outgoing champion Scott Dixon (Ganassi / Chevrolet) by 0”0142 and the Frenchman Simon Pagenaud (Penske / Chevrolet) by 0”2365 who confirmed his good intentions. The top five is completed by Graham Rahal (RLL / Honda) and Takuma Sato (Foyt / Honda), who prove that the Japanese manufacturer will have to be reckoned with this weekend.

Among the other favorites, note the ninth time of Helio Castroneves (Penske / Chevrolet) who preceded his teammate Juan Pablo Montoya by a breath. Marco Andretti (Andretti / Honda) is 11th, Ryan Hunter-Reay (Andretti / Honda) 12th and Sébastien Bourdais (KVSH Racing / Chevrolet) 14th.

On the rookie side, Alexander Red (Andretti / Honda), which resulted in a red flag after getting stuck in a loophole, is in thirteenth position, five places ahead of Max Chilton (Ganassi / Chevrolet).

Tomorrow morning, the drivers will have the right to a final free practice session before qualifying.