Carb Day practice times - Dixon, Tagliani, Franchitti fastest, Hunter-Reay seventh

Scott Dixon, Alex Tagliani, and Dario Franchitti topped the speed chart this morning at IMS in the final “Carb Day” practice before the Indy 500.   Vitor Meira and Dan Wheldon were the balance of the top five.

Ryan Hunter-Reah was P7 in his A.J. Foyt chassis that Andretti Autosport bought out for him, and I think that Andretti Autosport has some serious engineering problems with their cars for him to be so quick, so easily today.   Danica and Marco were 20th and 29th respectively.

PRACTICE SPEEDS - CARB DAY 2011

P Driver Best Lap
1 Scott Dixon 225.474 2 Alex Tagliani 224.739 3 Dario Franchitti 224.658 4 Vitor Meira 224.48 5 Dan Wheldon 224.439 6 Buddy Rice 224.409 7 Ryan Hunter-Reay 223.93 8 Tony Kanaan 223.868 9 Helio Castroneves 223.861 10 John Andretti 223.852 11 JR Hildebrand 223.83 12 Townsend Bell 223.808 13 Will Power 223.78 14 Graham Rahal 223.422 15 Ryan Briscoe 223.373 16 Ed Carpenter 223.221 17 Paul Tracy 223.211 18 Justin Wilson 223.159 19 Jay Howard 223.041 20 Danica Patrick 222.829 21 Alex Lloyd 222.777 22 Simona de Silvestro 222.735 23 Bertrand Baguette 222.678 24 Ana Beatriz 222.6 25 James Hinchcliffe 222.434 26 Charlie Kimball 222.253 27 Davey Hamilton 222.168 28 Oriol Servia 222.165 29 Marco Andretti 221.826 30 Pippa Mann 220.891