IndyCar Series point leader Dan Wheldon topped the speed charts in the first day of practice for all cars for the 91st running of the Indianapolis 500.
Shortly after Happy Hour began at 5 p. m., Wheldon, the 2005 Indianapolis 500 champion, posted the day’s quickest lap of 39.9868 seconds, 225.074 mph in his No. 10 Target Chip Ganassi Racing Dallara/Honda/Firestone. Team Penske’s Helio Castroneves, a two-time Indy 500 winner, posted the second-quickest lap - 40.0007, 224.106.
Vision Racing’s Tomas Scheckter (224.783 mph), Andretti Green Racing’s Tony Kanaan (224.622 mph) and Target Chip Ganassi’s Scott Dixon (224.564 mph) rounded out the top five.
Jon Herb had the lone incident of the day, making hard contact with the SAFER Barrier in Turn 2. He was uninjured in the accident.
Twenty-seven car/driver combinations completed 1,218 laps.
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