Practice report

Power tops final practice at St. Petersburg

Will Power put the #12 Team Penske-Chevrolet into P1 in third practice, but again AJ Foyt Racing and Honda in general looked strong.

The 2014 champion lapped the 1.8-mile course in 60.8965sec, an average speed of 106.410mph, but his closest challenge, less than 0.1sec behind, was Jack Hawksworth in the AJ Foyt Racing-Honda.

Juan Pablo Montoya, Helio Castroneves and Simon Pagenaud made it four Penskes in the top seven places, despite Pagenaud spinning down an escape road.

Graham Rahal in the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda was fourth fastest while a resurgent Josef Newgarden grabbed sixth after a quiet Friday for the Ed Carpenter Racing driver.

Mikhail Aleshin appeared to be back in 2014 form, finishing 11th in the Schmidt Peterson Motorsports-Honda, just ahead of the first Andretti Autosport-Honda, that of Marco Andretti.

Alexander Rossi was 16th, while fellow rookies Spencer Pigot, Max Chilton, and Conor Daly finished 19th, 20th and 22nd respectively.

Practice times:

P.	N°	Driver	Team	Time/Gap
1	12	Will Power	Penske (C)	1:00.8965
2	41	Jack Hawksworth	Foyt (H)	+0.0833
3	2	Juan Pablo Montoya	Penske (C)	+0.1535
4	15	Graham Rahal	Rahal (H)	+0.2366
5	3	Helio Castroneves	Penske (C)	+0.2465
6	21	Josef Newgarden	Carpenter (C)	+0.2477
7	22	Simon Pagenaud	Penske (C)	+0.2947
8	11	Sebastien Bourdais	KVSH (C)	+0.3550
9	14	Takuma Sato	Foyt (H)	+0.3587
10	9	Scott Dixon	Ganassi (C)	+0.3877
11	7	Mikhail Aleshin	Schmidt (H)	+0.4292
12	27	Marco Andretti	Andretti (H)	+0.4365
13	83	Charlie Kimball	Ganassi (C)	+0.5169
14	5	James Hinchcliffe	Schmidt (H)	+0.5419
15	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti (H)	+0.6263
16	98	Alexander Rossi	Andretti/Herta (H)	+0.6698
17	10	Tony Kanaan	Ganassi (C)	+0.7022
18	26	Carlos Munoz	Andretti (H)	+0.7215
19	16	Spencer Pigot	Rahal (H)	+0.8675
20	8	Max Chilton	Ganassi (C)	+0.8980
21	19	Luca Filippi	Coyne (H)	+0.9193
22	18	Conor Daly	Coyne (H)	+0.9923