Will Power put the #12 Team Penske-Chevrolet at the top of the time sheets in second practice, but James Hinchcliffe and Graham Rahal gave Honda a timely boost. The two-time Long Beach winner turned a 67.5992sec around the classic 1.968-mile track, an average speed of 104.806mph, and his second fastest time would have put him top too. But 0.22sec behind was Hinchcliffe’s Schmidt Peterson Motorsport-Honda, while another HPD machine, Graham Rahal’s Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing #15 was third, only a further 0.06sec in arrears. Championship leader Simon Pagenaud languished near the bottom of the time sheets for the first half of the session, but after Penske made adjustments to his rear...
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