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Bourdais leads opening Portland practice
Sebastien Bourdais may not be in the title hunt but he's still a major player in any IndyCar race as he showed Friday morning.
The four-time IndyCar champ was fastest of the 24 cars with s lap of 57.3975 seconds in the SealFast Honda of Dale Coyne. Scott Dixon, who takes a 26-point lead over Alexander Rossi into Sunday's Grand Prix of Portland, was second quick at 57.4221s in the PNC Honda around the 1.9-mile road course.
Josef Newgarden, still mathematically alive in third place, turned the third-best lap of the 45-minute session at 57.5836s in the Verizon Chevy, followed by Marco Andretti at 57.7114s in the U.S. Concrete Honda and Will Power at 57.7663s in the other Verizon Chevy.
Jordan King gave Ed Carpenter's team the sixth-best time on the chart at 57.7873s in the Fuzzy's Chevy and Rossi was seventh at 57.7892s in the NAPA Honda.
Rookie Pietro Fittipaldi never turned a lap due to brake issues, while Zach Veach and Alfonso Celis both had off-course excursions but didn't incur any major damage.
UP NEXT: Second practice begins at 5:35 p.m. ET this afternoon.
Robin Miller
Robin Miller flunked out of Ball State after two quarters, but got a job stooging for Jim Hurtubise at the 1968 Indianapolis 500 when Herk's was the last roadster to ever make the race. He got hired at The Indianapolis Star a month later and talked his way into the sports department, where he began covering USAC and IndyCar racing. He got fired at The Star for being anti-Tony George, but ESPN hired him to write and do RPM2Nite. Then he went to SPEED and worked on WIND TUNNEL and SPEED REPORT. He started at RACER when SPEED folded, and went on to write for RACER.com and RACER magazine while also working for NBCSN on IndyCar telecasts.
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