Long Beach IndyCar: Power leads second practice for Penske

The Penske racer set a time of 1m07.0800s on the softer Firestone tyres to finish 0.2776 seconds ahead of Marco Andretti and team-mate Simon Pagenaud.

The 45-minute session looked set to be an uneventful one until a short red-flag period in the final eight minutes, caused when Ganassi's Tony Kanaan locked up at Turn 1 and stalled after completing a U-turn.

Takuma Sato jumped up to fourth late ahead of Andretti Autosport team-mate Ryan Hunter-Reay and Penske's Helio Castroneves, who also improved using the soft rubber.

Winner of the season opener at St Petersburg, Dale Coyne Racing's Sebastien Bourdais was seventh.

Scott Dixon moved to the top with 28 minutes remaining but did not improve on that time of 1m07.7147s, slipping to eighth at the end of the session to break the Ganassi driver's streak of leading three-straight practice sessions.

JR Hildebrand and James Hinchcliffe completed the top 10, ahead of last year's Indianapolis 500 winner Alexander Rossi.

Ganassi's Max Chilton again appeared to struggle after apparent electrical problems in first practice, finishing as the slowest of the 21 drivers, 2.2905s off the pace set by Power.

PRACTICE TWO TIMES:

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Will Power	Team Penske	Dallara/Chevrolet	1m07.0800s	-	14
2	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Dallara/Honda	1m07.3576s	0.2776s	12
3	Simon Pagenaud	Team Penske	Dallara/Chevrolet	1m07.3797s	0.2997s	17
4	Takuma Sato	Andretti Autosport	Dallara/Honda	1m07.5538s	0.4738s	16
5	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Dallara/Honda	1m07.5698s	0.4898s	16
6	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske	Dallara/Chevrolet	1m07.5926s	0.5126s	17
7	Sebastien Bourdais	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara/Honda	1m07.6811s	0.6011s	18
8	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara/Honda	1m07.7147s	0.6347s	16
9	J.R. Hildebrand	Ed Carpenter Racing	Dallara/Chevrolet	1m07.7496s	0.6696s	24
10	James Hinchcliffe	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Dallara/Honda	1m07.7712s	0.6912s	17
11	Alexander Rossi	Andretti Herta	Dallara/Honda	1m07.7890s	0.7090s	17
12	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan	Dallara/Honda	1m07.8118s	0.7318s	19
13	Tony Kanaan	Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara/Honda	1m07.9643s	0.8843s	18
14	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	Dallara/Chevrolet	1m07.9786s	0.8986s	19
15	Carlos Munoz	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara/Chevrolet	1m08.0577s	0.9777s	18
16	Mikhail Aleshin	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Dallara/Honda	1m08.2575s	1.1775s	19
17	Charlie Kimball	Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara/Honda	1m08.3624s	1.2824s	21
18	Conor Daly	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara/Chevrolet	1m08.4465s	1.3665s	18
19	Spencer Pigot	Ed Carpenter Racing	Dallara/Chevrolet	1m08.7472s	1.6672s	19
20	Ed Jones	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara/Honda	1m09.1303s	2.0503s	15
21	Max Chilton	Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara/Honda	1m09.3705s	2.2905s	21