Related StoriesSimon Pagenaud held the upper hand by half a second in Friday's second practice session, that was halted early by a red flag for a hard hit by Jack Hawksworth.Pagenaud, winner of the inaugural Indianapolis Grand Prix, laid down a lap of 1:00.41 in the Vaspar Dallara-Honda and was...

Walker (blue shirt) in front of the fence damaged in the Franchitti/Sato incident (Ron Bijlsma/LAT photo) Without overstating the obvious, the IndyCar Series did not cover itself in glory last weekend. The series' first trip to race on the streets of Houston, held on a track layout that was previously...