Will Power has clocked the fastest lap in Practice 2 for the Indianapolis 500 on a day when Fernando Alonso finished 24th quickest.
Power lapped the 2.5mi superspeedway in a best time of 40.0613s (224.656mph, 361.549km/h) on his 47th of 71 laps in the #12 Team Penske Chevrolet.
The effort was slower than Marco Andretti’s Practice 1 benchmark (39.7636s) during a windy day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Helio Castroneves went to second place in the final hour, finishing the day less than 0.1s adrift of his team-mate, while Gabby Chaves took his Harding Racing Chevrolet to third in the last 10 minutes of the six-hour session.
Ed Carpenter was credited with the fastest non-tow lap of 40.3874s in his Ed Carpenter Racing Chevrolet.
Alonso finished the day 24th fastest in the McLaren/Andretti Autosport Honda but gained his first genuine experience running in traffic as he completed a session-high 117 laps.
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The day ran largely incident-free, though Mikhail Aleshin did lightly touch the Turn 2 wall late in the piece in his Schmidt Peterson Honda.
Practice 3 starts on Thursday morning at 0200 AEST, while qualifying commences on Saturday (local time).
Practice 2: Indianapolis 500
| Pos | Driver | C/A/E/T | Time | Diff | Gap | Best lap | Total laps |
| 1 | Power, Will | D/C/C/F | 40.0613 | 47 | 71 | ||
| 2 | Castroneves, Helio | D/C/C/F | 40.1271 | 0.0658 | 0.0658 | 49 | 68 |
| 3 | Chaves, Gabby | D/C/C/F | 40.1802 | 0.1189 | 0.0531 | 85 | 87 |
| 4 | Hunter-Reay, Ryan | D/H/H/F | 40.1857 | 0.1244 | 0.0055 | 6 | 78 |
| 5 | Karam, Sage | D/C/C/F | 40.2430 | 0.1817 | 0.0573 | 23 | 69 |
| 6 | Sato, Takuma | D/H/H/F | 40.2584 | 0.1971 | 0.0154 | 11 | 106 |
| 7 | Aleshin, Mikhail | D/H/H/F | 40.2736 | 0.2123 | 0.0152 | 8 | 58 |
| 8 | Pagenaud, Simon | D/C/C/F | 40.2829 | 0.2216 | 0.0093 | 9 | 86 |
| 9 | Hildebrand, JR | D/C/C/F | 40.2952 | 0.2339 | 0.0123 | 37 | 84 |
| 10 | Newgarden, Josef | D/C/C/F | 40.3305 | 0.2692 | 0.0353 | 32 | 59 |
| 11 | Carpenter, Ed | D/C/C/F | 40.3874 | 0.3261 | 0.0569 | 24 | 82 |
| 12 | Muñoz, Carlos | D/C/C/F | 40.3997 | 0.3384 | 0.0123 | 51 | 81 |
| 13 | Dixon, Scott | D/H/H/F | 40.4403 | 0.3790 | 0.0406 | 54 | 60 |
| 14 | Rossi, Alexander | D/H/H/F | 40.4530 | 0.3917 | 0.0127 | 14 | 98 |
| 15 | Jones, Ed (R) | D/H/H/F | 40.4948 | 0.4335 | 0.0418 | 38 | 85 |
| 16 | Bourdais, Sebastien | D/H/H/F | 40.4952 | 0.4339 | 0.0004 | 67 | 91 |
| 17 | Kanaan, Tony | D/H/H/F | 40.5481 | 0.4868 | 0.0529 | 4 | 49 |
| 18 | Servia, Oriol | D/H/H/F | 40.5550 | 0.4937 | 0.0069 | 39 | 65 |
| 19 | Kimball, Charlie | D/H/H/F | 40.5792 | 0.5179 | 0.0242 | 43 | 72 |
| 20 | Rahal, Graham | D/H/H/F | 40.5884 | 0.5271 | 0.0092 | 66 | 100 |
| 21 | Montoya, Juan Pablo | D/C/C/F | 40.5961 | 0.5348 | 0.0077 | 49 | 58 |
| 22 | Veach, Zach (R) | D/C/C/F | 40.6084 | 0.5471 | 0.0123 | 43 | 68 |
| 23 | Chilton, Max | D/H/H/F | 40.6818 | 0.6205 | 0.0734 | 39 | 75 |
| 24 | Alonso, Fernando (R) | D/H/H/F | 40.7187 | 0.6574 | 0.0369 | 23 | 117 |
| 25 | Andretti, Marco | D/H/H/F | 40.7220 | 0.6607 | 0.0033 | 51 | 82 |
| 26 | Pigot, Spencer | D/C/C/F | 40.7922 | 0.7309 | 0.0702 | 42 | 66 |
| 27 | Saavedra, Sebastian | D/C/C/F | 40.8554 | 0.7941 | 0.0632 | 39 | 55 |
| 28 | Daly, Conor | D/C/C/F | 40.8565 | 0.7952 | 0.0011 | 48 | 67 |
| 29 | Hinchcliffe, James | D/H/H/F | 40.8847 | 0.8234 | 0.0282 | 31 | 60 |
| 30 | Howard, Jay | D/H/H/F | 40.8862 | 0.8249 | 0.0015 | 61 | 72 |
| 31 | Harvey, Jack (R) | D/H/H/F | 41.1065 | 1.0452 | 0.2203 | 55 | 82 |
| 32 | Mann, Pippa | D/H/H/F | 41.1732 | 1.1119 | 0.0667 | 41 | 47 |
| 33 | Andretti, Marco | D/H/H/F | 41.8939 | 1.8326 | 0.7207 | 6 | 6 |
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