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Power leads third practice at Barber
Team Penske-Chevrolet’s Will Power moved to the top of the time sheets in final practice before qualifying for the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Apr 23, 2016, 8:31 PM
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The #12 Penske’s 67.0198sec fastest time was a scant 0.0975sec ahead of the Chip Ganassi Racing-Chevy of Scott Dixon, who has never finished off the podium at Barber since the event started back in 2010, but has also never stood on the top step.
Power looked to be on a fast lap in the closing moments but understeered at Turn 5.
Despite the top spots falling to Chevy, Honda again looked strong with James Hinchcliffe of Schmidt Peterson Motorsports and Carlos Munoz of Andretti Autosport finishing the 45-minute session in third and fourth, ahead of another Penske, that of current championship leader Simon Pagenaud.
Sebastien Bourdais maintained his strong form from yesterday, slotting the KVSH Racing-Chevy into sixth, ahead of Juan Montoya’s Penske and the second SPM-Honda of Mikhail Aleshin
Last year’s winner and runner-up – Josef Newgarden (Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet) and Graham Rahal (Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda) – completed the top 10.
Having gone without even a yellow flag in yesterday’s practice sessions, FP3 was red-flagged twice – once for a spin and stall from Max Chilton in the Ganassi #8, and again at the end when Takuma Sato dumped his AJ Foyt Racing-Honda in the gravel at Turn 5.
IndyCar 2016 Barber - Practice 3
Pos. #DriverTeamTime 1 12 
Will Power 
Penske (C) 1:07.0198 2 9 
Scott Dixon 
Ganassi (C) +0.0975 3 5 
James Hinchcliffe 
Schmidt (H) +0.1127 4 26 
Carlos Muñoz 
Andretti (H) +0.1597 5 22 
Simon Pagenaud 
Penske (C) +0.2621 6 11 Sébastien Bourdais 
KVSH (C) +0.3307 7 2 Juan Pablo Montoya 
Penske (C) +0.3318 8 7 
Mikhail Aleshin 
Schmidt (H) +0.3355 9 21 
Josef Newgarden 
Carpenter (C) +0.3646 10 15 Graham Rahal 
Rahal (H) +0.3759 11 41 
Jack Hawksworth 
Foyt (H) +0.4729 12 3 
Helio Castroneves 
Penske (C) +0.4804 13 14 
Takuma Sato 
Foyt (H) +0.5489 14 8 Max Chilton 
Ganassi (C) +0.5537 15 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay 
Andretti (H) +0.6009 16 83 Charlie Kimball 
Ganassi (C) +0.6963 17 10 Tony Kanaan 
Ganassi (C) +0.7176 18 27 Marco Andretti 
Andretti (H) +0.8391 19 98 Alexander Rossi 
Andretti Herta (H) +0.8828 20 18 Conor Daly 
Coyne (H) +0.9477 21 19 
Luca Filippi 
Coyne (H) +1.4684
C = Chevrolet, H = Honda
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