Pagenaud leads Penske 1-2-3; fourth Penske shunts

Pagenaud’s fastest lap was 61.7081sec, an average of 104.194mph around the revised 1.785-mile track, and beat his teammates Helio Castroneves and Will Power by 0.2 and 0.35sec respectively.

Montoya’s sizeable shunt came as he exited the new Turn 11 on his fourth lap. The left front wheel of the #2 Team Penske Chevrolet snagged the inside wall, which pushed him into understeering into the outside wall coming onto the main straight. Montoya claimed he was unhurt and was completely straight about claiming responsibility for the shunt.

Charlie Kimball bounced off the exit wall but at least had the whole right-side of the car absorb the impact. It was still a big enough impact to send him across to smack the pitwall too.

Early pacesetter Mikhail Aleshin broke with tradition by having his spin exiting Turn 1, and in the end it was Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon who was Team Penske’s fastest opponent, with local hero James Hinchcliffe fifth for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports-Honda, despite a trip down an escape road.

This morning’s pacesetter, KVSH Racing’s Sebastien Bourdais, was sixth fastest, while Carlos Munoz was top of the Andretti Autosport cars in ninth.

Dale Coyne Racing looked solid, Conor Daly leading Luca Filippi in 11^th and 12^th.

Spencer Pigot continued to show strong form relative to Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevy teammate Josef Newgarden, yet last year’s Toronto-winning team was clearly still struggling, more than one second off Pagenaud’s pace. 

IndyCar 2016 - Toronto - Second practice

P.	N°	Driver	Team (Engine)	Time/deficit
1	22	Simon Pagenaud	Penske (C)	1:01.7081
2	3	Helio Castroneves	Penske (C)	0.2010
3	12	Will Power	Penske (C)	0.3492
4	9	Scott Dixon	Ganassi (C)	0.3621
5	5	James Hinchcliffe	Schmidt (H)	0.4786
6	11	Sébastien Bourdais	KVSH (C)	0.5607
7	10	Tony Kanaan	Ganassi (C)	0.7008
8	15	Graham Rahal	Rahal (H)	0.8272
9	26	Carlos Muñoz	Andretti (H)	0.8563
10	41	Jack Hawksworth	Foyt (H)	0.8656
11	18	Conor Daly	Coyne (H)	0.8860
12	19	Luca Filippi	Coyne (H)	0.9235
13	7	Mikhail Aleshin	Schmidt (H)	0.9368
14	14	Takuma Sato	Foyt (H)	0.9782
15	27	Marco Andretti	Andretti (H)	1.0303
16	21	Josef Newgarden	Carpenter (C)	1.0861
17	2	Juan Pablo Montoya	Penske (C)	1.1378
18	20	Spencer Pigot	Carpenter (C)	1.1465
19	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti (H)	1.2434
20	98	Alexander Rossi	Andretti-Herta (H)	1.3031
21	83	Charlie Kimball	Ganassi (C)	1.5372
22	8	Max Chilton	Ganassi (C)	1.5564