Texas IndyCar: Tony Kanaan tops evening practice session

Kanaan went to the top shortly after the start of the Friday evening session with a 218.551mph lap for KV, and his speed remained unbeaten.

Andretti's James Hinchcliffe came closest with a 217.575mph effort, with polesitter Will Power rounding out the top three.

While the session was largely uneventful, it did reveal that Dale Coyne Racing's Justin Wilson's battle to get on pace with the rest of the pack is not yet over.

The Brit struggled during the opening session with a major imbalance on his car, and while he later reported that the cause of the problem had been identified, his team was not left with enough time to find a set-up.

Last year's Texas winner finished the evening almost nine miles per hour down on the leaders.

Meanwhile, Simon Pagenaud has become the third driver to have been issued a 10-place grid penalty for an engine change.

As was the case with Schmidt Peterson team-mate Tristan Vautier, the Detroit race-winner's penalty was issued due to his engine being changed before it reached the minimum threshold of 2000 miles.

The other affected driver, KV's Simona de Silvestro, was penalised on the grounds that engine manufacturer Chevrolet did not inform IndyCar officials of an engine failure within five hours of the end of last week's Detroit race.

Pos  Driver               Team/Engine      Time       Gap

 1.  Tony Kanaan          KV/Chevy         23.9670s
 2.  James Hinchcliffe    Andretti/Chevy   24.0745s   + 0.1075s
 3.  Will Power           Penske/Chevy     24.1234s   + 0.1564s
 4.  Scott Dixon          Ganassi/Honda    24.1705s   + 0.2035s
 5.  James Jakes          Rahal/Honda      24.1859s   + 0.2189s
 6.  Takuma Sato          Foyt/Honda       24.2885s   + 0.3215s
 7.  Simona de Silvestro  KV/Chevy         24.3826s   + 0.4156s
 8.  Simon Pagenaud       Schmidt/Honda    24.3870s   + 0.4200s
 9.  Dario Franchitti     Ganassi/Honda    24.4126s   + 0.4456s
10.  Pippa Mann           Coyne/Honda      24.5101s   + 0.5431s
11.  Josef Newgarden      Fisher/Honda     24.5299s   + 0.5629s
12.  Ed Carpenter         Carpenter/Chevy  24.5381s   + 0.5711s
13.  Ryan Hunter-Reay     Andretti/Chevy   24.5871s   + 0.6201s
14.  Oriol Servia         Panther/Chevy    24.6113s   + 0.6443s
15.  Helio Castroneves    Penske/Chevy     24.6493s   + 0.6823s
16.  Sebastian Bourdais   Dragon/Chevy     24.6741s   + 0.7071s
17.  Tristan Vautier      Schmidt/Honda    24.6820s   + 0.7150s
18.  Alex Tagliani        Herta/Honda      24.8055s   + 0.8385s
19.  EJ Viso              Andretti/Chevy   24.8294s   + 0.8624s
20.  Sebastian Saavedra   Dragon/Chevy     24.8489s   + 0.8819s
21.  Charlie Kimball      Ganassi/Honda    24.8847s   + 0.9177s
22.  Graham Rahal         Rahal/Honda      24.9180s   + 0.9510s
23.  Marco Andretti       Andretti/Chevy   24.9259s   + 0.9589s
24.  Justin Wilson        Coyne/Honda      24.9902s   + 1.0232s

All drivers use Dallara DW12 chassis