Team Penske’s Will Power beat Sam Schmidt Motorsports’s Alex Tagliani to the fastest time set yet in practice for the Indianapolis 500 as activities returned to normal after days of rain.
Alex Tagliani look set to have the fastest speed of the day but Power was able to charge back in the closing moments of the session and put in a fast lap at 227.778 mph.
Power's teammates Ryan Briscoe and Helio Castroneves were third and fourth, ahead of Tagliani's teammate, Townsend Bell. The session was interrupted early on by a frightening crash for Simona de Silvestro, whose HVM Dalla-Honda crashed heavily at Turn 3, landing upside down and catching fire. De Silvestro was taken to hospital for treatment to minor burns on her hands. The field has one more six-hour practice session Friday afternoon before qualifying for all 33 grid places takes place across the weekend. Day 6 practice results 1 - Will Power - Penske - 227.778 mph 2 - Alex Tagliani - Schmidt - 227.652 3 - Ryan Briscoe - Penske - 227.217 4 - Helio Castroneves - Penske - 226.927 6 - JR Hildebrand - Panther - 226.527 7 - Oriol Servia - Newman-Haas - 226.471 8 - Scott Dixon - Ganassi - 226.453 9 - Ed Carpenter - Fisher - 226.376 10 - Danica Patrick - Andretti - 226.267 11 - Graham Rahal - Ganassi - 226.142 12 - Paul Tracy - D&R - 225.906 13 - Tony Kanaan - KV - 225.802 14 - Dan Wheldon - Herta - 225.716 15 - Justin Wilson - D&R - 225.648 16 - Dario Franchitti - Ganassi - 225.603 17 - Jay Howard - Rahal - 225.594 18 - Vitor Meira - Foyt - 225.450 19 - Takuma Sato - KV - 225.308 20 - Buddy Rice - Panther - 225.184 21 - Pippa Mann - Conquest - 225.092 22 - Marco Andretti - Andretti - 224.954 23 - Ryan Hunter-Reay - Andretti - 224.873 24 - John Andretti - Andretti - 224.684 25 - Bruno Junqueira - Foyt - 224.644 26 - Tomas Scheckter - KV - 224.632 27 - Bertrand Baguette - Rahal - 224.617 28 - Alex Lloyd - Coyne - 224.525 29 - Charlie Kimball - Ganassi - 224.433 30 - James Hinchcliffe - Newman-Haas - 224.333 31 - Ana Beatriz - D&R - 224.123 32 - EJ Viso - KV - 224.056 33 - Davey Hamilton - D&R - 223.889 34 - Raphael Matos - AFS - 223.349 35 - Ho-Pin Tung - Dragon - 223.348 36 - Mike Conway - Andretti - 222.359 37 - Simona de Silvestro - HVM - 222.192 38 - Scott Speed - Dragon - 222.177 39 - Sebastian Saavedra - Conquest - 221.268 40 - James Jakes - Coyne - 220.709
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