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Hunter-Reay fastest in second free practice
Ryan Hunter-Reay remains one of the drivers to beat when the IZOD IndyCar Series visits a temporary street circuit. The Andretti Autosport driver, who won the last time the series visited a street course -- at Long Beach in mid-April -- raced to the top of the time chart with a lap of 1:02.1433 (101.668 mph) late in the second practice session as IZOD IndyCar Series teams opened preparations for the Honda Indy Toronto on the 1.75-mile, 11-turn circuit at Toronto's Exhibition Place.
Justin Wilson, driving the No. 22 Z-Line Designs car for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, was second quick (1:02.1839; 101.602) and Helio Castroneves in the No. 3 Team Penske car was third (1:02.2550; 101.486). It's another tightly packed field as the top 13 cars were separated by less than a second.
“I love this place and it is great to see the fans turn out here in Toronto,” said Hunter-Reay. “This is our first street course since then and our car is still good. Tomorrow is a new day. Most teams took new tires at the end of that session and so did we. We will see where we stack up, but I think we will definitely be top five (in qualifying).”
Wilson, runner-up on the street circuits of St. Petersburg and Long Beach earlier this season, agreed that there are areas to improve the lap times.
“It’s always good to come back to Toronto,” he said. “It’s a track that I really like and always have fun driving on. It’s obviously not the smoothest track we drive on, but I think that adds character to the course. (Dreyer & Reinbold Racing) gave me a good car today. It works really well and feels really good, but obviously we have plenty of room to improve. We have one area that we need to change, but hopefully after making those improvements tonight we’ll be able to go a little faster tomorrow.”
Alex Tagliani of Montreal was sixth on the time chart in the No. 77 Bowers & Wilkins/Hot Wheels entry for FAZZT Race Team and Paul Tracy of Toronto was 25th in the No. 25 Make-A-Wish car for KV Racing Technology.
“We started out pretty well this morning," said Tracy, competing in his second race of the season. "But we had a little issue with the car in the afternoon. We really only got about five laps of running. We got the car back out to the pits with about two minutes to go. But we weren’t going to get the tires up to temperature in that amount of time. So we didn’t run.
"Right now, we’ll baseline off of E.J. (Viso’s) car in the morning. Our cars were pretty similar to begin with and he ended up in the top seven. He thinks the changes they made were quite good. That puts us up an extra set of tires on the rest of the field for Saturday. We’ll be ready to go in the morning.”
Third practice begins at 9:10am local time on Saturday (BST -5)
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