Indy500: Hélio Castroneves é o mais rápido da quinta-feira

O brasileiro Hélio Castroneves (Penske) foi o mais rápido nessa quinta-feira, nos treinos para as 500 Milhas de Indianápolis.

Após dois dias com chuva, o tempo melhorou no Indianápolis motor Speedway, com todos os 33 pilotos inscritos para a prova marcando tempo.

Castroneves foi o mais rápido do quinto treino com o tempo de 39.6186 (227.166mph). O norte-americano Ed Carpenter (ECR) ficou em segundo, seguido pelo francês Simon Pagenaud (Schmidt) e o australiano Will Power (Penske).

O brasileiro Tony Kanaan (Ganassi), que treinou em dois carros (o titular e o reserva) marcou o 14º tempo com o carro titular.

Tempos:

1. #3 Helio Castroneves (C) 227.166mph 39.6186s Practice 5 (297 laps)
2. #20 Ed Carpenter (C) 226.257mph 39.7777s Practice 5 (180 laps)
3. #77 Simon Pagenaud (H) 226.122mph 39.8016s Practice 4 (267 laps)
4. #12 Will Power (C) 225.899mph 39.8408s Practice 5 (243 laps)
5. #21 JR Hildebrand (C) 225.854mph 39.8488s Practice 4 (255 laps)
6. #9 Scott Dixon (C) 225.494mph 39.9123s Practice 4 (279 laps)
7. #6 Townsend Bell (C) 225.484mph 39.9142s Practice 5 (191 laps)
8. #28 Ryan Hunter-Reay (H) 225.340mph 39.9396s Practice 5 (353 laps)
9. #7 Mikhail Aleshin (H) 225.310mph 39.9449s Practice 4 (213 laps)
10. #8 Ryan Briscoe (C) 225.276mph 39.9510s Practice 4 (266 laps)
11. #2 Juan Pablo Montoya (C) 225.134mph 39.9762s Practice 4 (279 laps)
12. #19 Justin Wilson (H) 225.058mph 39.9897s Practice 4 (211 laps)
13. #67 Josef Newgarden (H) 224.948mph 40.0093s Practice 4 (316 laps)
14. #10 Tony Kanaan (C) 224.836mph 40.0292s Practice 5 (291 laps)
15. #26 Kurt Busch (H) 224.739mph 40.0464s Practice 5 (276 laps)
16. #27 EJ Viso (H) 224.731mph 40.0478s Practice 4 (256 laps)
17. #11 Sebastien Bourdais (C) 224.655mph 40.0614s Practice 5 (227 laps)
18. #25 Marco Andretti (H) 224.643mph 40.0636s Practice 5 (184 laps)
19. #83 Charlie Kimball (C) 224.544mph 40.0812s Practice 4 (174 laps)
20. #68 Alex Tagliani (H) 224.384mph 40.1099s Practice 4 (213 laps)
21. #18 Carlos Huertas (H) 224.242mph 40.1353s Practice 5 (235 laps)
22. #98 Jack Hawksworth (H) 224.000mph 40.1786s Practice 4 (90 laps)
23. #63 Pippa Mann (H) 223.984mph 40.1815s Practice 4 (201 laps)
24. #17 Sebastian Saavedra (C) 223.955mph 40.1867s Practice 5 (128 laps)
25. #22 Sage Karam (C) 223.903mph 40.1960s Practice 5 (263 laps)
26. #14 Takuma Sato (H) 223.793mph 40.2157s Practice 5 (308 laps)
27. #34 Carlos Munoz (H) 223.754mph 40.2228s Practice 4 (285 laps)
28. #5 Jacques Villeneuve (H) 223.536mph 40.2620s Practice 5 (296 laps)
29. #41 Martin Plowman (H) 223.495mph 40.2694s Practice 5 (217 laps)
30. #15 Graham Rahal (H) 223.478mph 40.2725s Practice 5 (263 laps)
31. #16 Oriol Servia (H) 222.780mph 40.3986s Practice 4 (198 laps)
32. #83T Charlie Kimball (C) 221.845mph 40.5689s Practice 1 (12 laps)
33. #10T Tony Kanaan (C) 220.755mph 40.7691s Practice 1 (12 laps)
34. #9T Scott Dixon (C) 220.226mph 40.8671s Practice 1 (11 laps)
35. #21 Ed Carpenter (C) 219.899mph 40.9278s Practice 1 (5 laps)
36. #8T Ryan Briscoe (C) 219.745mph 40.9566s Practice 1 (15 laps)
37. #33 Sebastien Bourdais (C) 218.688mph 41.1545s Practice 5 (10 laps)
38. #91 Buddy Lazier (C) 218.277mph 41.2321s Practice 5 (18 laps)
39. #33 James Davison (C) 217.052mph 41.4648s Practice 5 (63 laps)