Helio Castroneves turned in the fastest lap, while his team-mate Sam Hornish Jr crashed during a rain shortened practice session at Japan's Twin Ring Motegi source: irl.racing-live.com "It was a good starting session for us," said Castroneves whose fastest lap was at 201.223mph. "Ron (his engineer) and I kept working on it and found a set-up we liked." Hornish, last years pole sitter at 204.704mph, crashed about 20 minutes into the second group practice session, damaging the rear and left front of his car. Hornish also poked a small hole in the SAFER barrier, though that was repaired. "As soon as I turned in, the back end came around," said Hornish of his crash. "My session was about 20 seconds too long." Due to Hornish's crash and later rains, the second group of cars got ten minutes less track time than the first group. They will be given extra time during tomorrow's session to even things up for the field. Motegi Practice Times Pos Driver Best Time Best Speed 1 Helio Castroneves 27.1937 201.223 2 Tony Kanaan 27.3479 200.088 3 Sam Hornish Jr 27.3941 199.751 4 Tomas Scheckter 27.4602 199.270 5 Scott Sharp 27.5011 198.974 6 Bryan Herta 27.5121 198.894 7 Dan Wheldon 27.5243 198.806 8 Danica Patrick 27.5246 198.804 9 Dario Franchitti 27.5600 198.549 10 Buddy Rice 27.5664 198.503 11 Kosuke Matsuura 27.6044 198.229 12 Marco Andretti 27.7011 197.537 13 Ed Carpenter 27.7068 197.497 14 Jeff Simmons 27.7103 197.472 15 Scott Dixon 27.9393 195.853 16 Vitor Meira 28.0321 195.205 17 Tomas Enge 28.1871 194.131 18 Buddy Lazier 28.1976 194.059 19 Felipe Giaffone 28.6698 190.863 20 PJ Chesson 28.7756 190.161.
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