Will Power, who has won twice at Barber Motorsports Park and took pole here last year, posted the quickest lap of the morning session – and of the two-day Verizon IndyCar Series Promoter Test – on the 2.38-mile, 17-turn road course. The reigning series champion, driving the No. 1 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet, had a best lap of 1:07.3118. That's a full second quicker than his 2014 pole-winning time on Firestone alternate tires. Scott Dixon holds the track record with a lap of 1:06.7750 in Round 1 of qualifying in 2013, also on Firestone alternate tires that offer more grip and under cooler ambient temperatures that also provide more track grip. Twenty-one cars turned 680 laps in the...
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