Practice report
IndyCar Mid-Ohio
Dixon fastest in first practice
Five-time Mid-Ohio winner Scott Dixon topped first practice for Sunday’s Honda Indy 200, as Chip Ganassi Racing and Team Penske dominated the top positions.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Jul 30, 2016, 3:13 PM
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Dixon’s Chip Ganassi Racing-Chevrolet lapped the 2.258-mile course in 64.4491sec, an average speed of 126.127sec, beating the Team Penske-Chevys of Will Power and Juan Pablo Montoya by 0.12 and 0.15sec respectively.
Power went off course at Turn 2 on his 22nd lap, but was able to return to the track without hurt. Curiously, he went off almost simultaneously with Dale Coyne Racing-Honda driver Conor Daly swiping off his nosecone down at the Keyhole corner, Turn 4.
Tony Kanaan was 0.19sec shy of teammate Dixon in fourth, with Helio Castroneves’ Penske entry fifth.
James Hinchcliffe was fastest of the Honda driver, putting his Schmidt Peterson Motorsports machine sixth, but his teammate Mikhail Aleshin had two spins on his final flying lap and wound up only 17th.
Championship leader Simon Pagenaud, who topped the test times here last week, was seventh ahead of Josef Newgarden (Ed Carpenter Racing) and Sebastien Bourdais (KVSH Racing), who dueled for the win here two years ago, before Dixon beat them both.
Ryan Hunter-Reay had looked strong before the track gripped up, but had to be content with 10th and fastest Andretti Autopsort-Honda entry, a couple of tenths ahead of teammate Marco Andretti, and defending Mid-Ohio winner Graham Rahal.
IndyCar debutant RC Enerson in the #19 Dale Coyne car was 21st, a respectable six places and less than three-tenths off teammate Daly.
IndyCar 2016 - Mid-Ohio - Free Practice 1 P.N°DriverTeam (Engine)Time/deficit 1 9 
Scott Dixon 
Ganassi (C) 1:04.4491 2 12 
Will Power 
Penske (C) 0.1188 3 2 
Juan Pablo Montoya 
Penske (C) 0.1543 4 10 
Tony Kanaan 
Ganassi (C) 0.1896 5 3 Helio Castroneves 
Penske (C) 0.2726 6 5 
James Hinchcliffe 
Schmidt (H) 0.3068 7 22 
Simon Pagenaud 
Penske (C) 0.3221 8 21 
Josef Newgarden 
Carpenter (C) 0.3767 9 11 Sébastien Bourdais 
KVSH (C) 0.4171 10 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay 
Andretti (H) 0.4568 11 83 Charlie Kimball 
Ganassi (C) 0.4717 12 27 Marco Andretti 
Andretti (H) 0.6497 13 15 Graham Rahal 
Rahal (H) 0.6794 14 26 Carlos Muñoz 
Andretti (H) 0.7261 15 18 Conor Daly 
Coyne (H) 0.8219 16 14 
Takuma Sato 
Foyt (H) 0.8486 17 7 
Mikhail Aleshin 
Schmidt (H) 0.8608 18 20 Spencer Pigot 
Carpenter (C) 0.8643 19 41 
Jack Hawksworth 
Foyt (H) 1.0582 20 8 Max Chilton 
Ganassi (C) 1.1035 21 19 R.C. Enerson 
Coyne (H) 1.1042 22 98 Alexander Rossi 
Andretti-Herta (H) 1.3012
(C) = Chevrolet, (H) = Honda
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