INDYCAR: Power leads practice 2 in Long Beach

Will Power gave Team Penske a clean sweep of the opening day of practice for the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach after going fastest in the second session on Friday.

The Australian, who ended the morning outing second fastest behind teammate Juan Pablo Montoya, reeled off a 1m07.5992s halfway through the session, and his time remained unbeaten when the checkered flag waved.

• Video: Robin Miller on Friday at Long Beach

Related Stories

"I've got a good setup and learned some stuff from Juan this morning, and we're progressing well," Power said. "This is a track where I've struggled over the past couple of years in qualifying, so this time I want to start up from and give myself the best possible chance of winning the race."

Power's closest threat was SPM's James Hinchcliffe, who finished the afternoon second fastest, albeit 0.2s down.

"We've had a difficult start to the season, but not quite as difficult as the end to my last one," he said. "So it's easy to sleep at night knowing that things could be worse. The car was quick off the truck [this morning], and we made very few changes over lunch."

Just behind Hinchcliffe was Graham Rahal.

"I'm a little disappointed because I kept trying too hard and never got a good lap on my new tires," he said. "I just pushing harder and harder and finally told myself to slow down, and got one decent one in there. I'd have to say, I feel pretty good about where we're at, but we'll see tomorrow because Chevrolet always seem to find something extra in qualifying."

Underlining that last point were the five Chevys queued up immediately behind him on the timesheets, led by a Penske 4-5-6 spearheaded by Simon Pagenaud.

There was no sign of the red flags that had punctuated the morning session, with incidents being limited to harmless (but lurid, in the case of Mikhail Aleshin) spins.

Click here for full results.

Don't just watch the race, feel it with the INDYCAR Mobile app. Enjoy live in-car cameras, real-time leader board and team transmissions.