KV Racing's Will Power was the undisputed leader of the day after having set the best time in both Friday's practices for the IndyCar Nikon Indy 300 that is taking place at Surfers Paradise in Australia.
After battling it out with Justin Wilson in the morning, the Australian had to content with the attacks from Helio Castroneves, Dario Franchitti and his own teammate, Oriol Servia in the afternoon. Power has already taken two pole positions at Surfers Paradise when it was part of the former Champ Car schedule but, both times, bad luck on race day prevented the Aussie Vineyard's driver to make the best out of those poles. While Helio Castroneves finished second, he was still more than 1.3 seconds behind the best time of the day. Dario Franchitti maintained his earlier third place as his very impressive return to the IndyCar Series continued. Following his accident at the end of morning practice, Conquest Racing's Alex Tagliani had to sit out much of the second session and could only manage 13th, eight places down on his practice one position. Morning practice: Pos Driver Team Time 1. Will Power KV 1:36.3391 2. Justin Wilson Newman/Haas/Lanigan 1:36.5607 + 0.2216 3. Dario Franchitti Ganassi 1:36.9904 + 0.6513 4. Scott Dixon Ganassi 1:37.0052 + 0.6661 5. Alex Tagliani Conquest 1:37.0625 + 0.7234 6. Tony Kanaan Andretti Green 1:37.0650 + 0.7259 7. Bruno Junqueira Dale Coyne 1:37.3127 + 0.9736 8. Oriol Servia KV 1:37.4146 + 1.0755 9. Ryan Briscoe Penske 1:37.5896 + 1.2505 10. Graham Rahal Newman/Haas/Lanigan 1:37.6370 + 1.2979 11. Helio Castroneves Penske 1:37.6514 + 1.3123 12. EJ Viso HVM 1:38.3860 + 2.0469 13. Mario Moraes Dale Coyne 1:39.1186 + 2.7795 14. Ryan Hunter-Reay Rahal Letterman 1:39.1631 + 2.8240 15. Hideki Mutoh Andretti Green 1:39.4673 + 3.1282 16. Vitor Meira Foyt 1:39.7604 + 3.4213 17. AJ Foyt IV Vision 1:40.1178 + 3.7787 18. Marco Andretti Andretti Green 1:41.1604 + 4.8213 19. Buddy Rice Dreyer & Reinbold 1:41.1624 + 4.8233 20. Dan Wheldon Panther 1:42.0197 + 5.6806 21. Danica Patrick Andretti Green 1:42.5072 + 6.1681 22. Townsend Bell Dreyer & Reinbold 1:42.6594 + 6.3203 23. Jaime Camara Conquest 1:42.8451 + 6.5060 24. Ed Carpenter Vision 1:43.0083 + 6.6692 Afternoon practice: 1. Will Power KV 1:34.8084 2. Helio Castroneves Penske 1:36.1609 + 1.3525 3. Dario Franchitti Ganassi 1:36.1712 + 1.3628 4. Oriol Servia KV 1:36.4394 + 1.6310 5. Graham Rahal Newman/Haas/Lanigan 1:36.4963 + 1.6879 6. Justin Wilson Newman/Haas/Lanigan 1:36.5127 + 1.7043 7. Scott Dixon Ganassi 1:36.5812 + 1.7728 8. Ryan Hunter-Reay Rahal Letterman 1:36.8863 + 2.0779 9. Ryan Briscoe Penske 1:37.5183 + 2.7099 10. Tony Kanaan Andretti Green 1:37.5488 + 2.7404 11. Bruno Junqueira Dale Coyne 1:37.7709 + 2.9625 12. Mario Moraes Dale Coyne 1:38.6572 + 3.8488 13. Alex Tagliani Conquest 1:38.8099 + 4.0015 14. Hideki Mutoh Andretti Green 1:38.8353 + 4.0269 15. EJ Viso HVM 1:38.8784 + 4.0700 16. AJ Foyt IV Vision 1:39.0920 + 4.2836 17. Vitor Meira Foyt 1:39.1538 + 4.3454 18. Dan Wheldon Panther 1:39.8513 + 5.0429 19. Marco Andretti Andretti Green 1:39.8582 + 5.0498 20. Danica Patrick Andretti Green 1:40.0527 + 5.2443 21. Jaime Camara Conquest 1:40.4821 + 5.6737 22. Buddy Rice Dreyer & Reinbold 1:40.7196 + 5.9112 23. Ed Carpenter Vision 1:41.4711 + 6.6667 24. Townsend Bell Dreyer & Reinbold 1:41.5490 + 6.7406 Photos: IRL - Shawn Payne
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