Sebastian Saavedra Tops The Practice Time Sheets

In Firestone Indy Lights practice, Sebastian Saavedra, driving the No. 29 William Rast/Bryan Herta Autosport car, topped the time chart for the Grand Prix of Long Beach at 1:15.1732.

Sebastian Saavedra Credit: Jim Haines/Indy Lights

James Hinchcliffe in the No. 2 TMR-Xtreme Coil Drilling entry was second (1:15.4583), and Martin Plowman was third in the No. 27 Automatic Fire Sprinklers/KEP Printing car for AFS Racing Andretti Autosport.

Charlie Kimball, who posted a career-best second on the Barber Motorsports Park road course, was fourth quick (1:15.8785) in the No. 26 Levemir FlexPen car for AFS Racing Andretti Autsport. J.K. Vernay, who has won the first two races of the season, was fifth on the chart (1:15.9426) in the No. 7 Lucas Oil/CJ/Sam Schmidt Motorsports car.

A 45-minute practice session precedes 3:55 p.m. (ET) qualifications.

SEBASTIAN SAAVEDRA: "Still a lot of grip to come. For sure, tomorrow is going to get a lot better, a lot faster. This is a place where you feel you're going to crash, and it's a little bit fast. It's very fun." (Where can you pick up speed on the track?): "Everywhere. The slow corners, the sector from (Turns) 1 to 5. I feel everywhere there's some time that will add up."

JAMES HINCHCLIFFE: "For sure, it's a solid start. But I know we can definitely improve. We put on a good time there at the end on the new tires. A bunch of guys tried stickers at the end there. We managed to get a pretty good lap out of it. But I think on old tires, our balance is still a little off. We'll keep cracking at it. The Team Moore guys are doing a great job on street circuits so far this year. We'll have a big think about it and try and do a little bit better tomorrow."

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