Team Penske dominates practice day

EDMONTON, Alberta — Team Penske dominated on practice day Friday for the Rexall Edmonton Indy.

Helio Castroneves finished first in 1 minute, 1.5467 seconds, hitting 115.405 mph on his final lap in practice at the 14-turn airport-road course at the City Centre Airport. The race is Sunday.

Teammate Ryan Briscoe, the pole-sitter in the inaugural IndyCar Series race last year, was second at 114.595.

“It’s not over,” Castroneves said. “We need to keep it up for qualifying.”

Will Power, Scott Dixon and Raphael Matos rounded out the top five.

Paul Tracy was 10th in the 23-car field. He ran among the leaders for most of the session, but dropped back after making some late adjustments.

“We made a shock and spring change on the last run with a new set of tires and it put an imbalance on the car,” he said. “We’ll just go back on it and figure what we have to do for qualifying.”

The practice went from bad to worse for Dan Wheldon. The English racer spun out into the grass four times in the morning practice session.