Scott Dixon, who hasn’t won on this track since the Indy Lights race in 2000, topped first practice for the 2015 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. The three-time IndyCar champion lapped the 1.968-mile course in 1min08.6458sec to set an average speed of 103.208mph. Dixon led a Chip Ganassi Racing-Chevrolet 1-2, as Tony Kanaan was second, just 0.1618sec behind with the sixth of his 15 laps. Third fastest was Ryan Hunter-Reay, fastest of the Hondas at a track on which he always excels, and won in 2010. The Andretti Autosport driver did enough to push the Penske-Chevrolets into fourth, fifth, seventh and ninth, with Simon Pagenaud’s No.22 car leading The Captain’s quartet by a hundredth...
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