Ryan Briscoe was immediately in charge and setting the pace on Friday morning at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California as he returned to the #5 Schmidt Peterson Motorsport car, substituting for the injured James Hinchcliffe. Briscoe set the fastest lap of the session, clocking in at 217.451mph (33.1109s) on the 2-mile, D-shaped oval putting him two hundredths of a second faster than Andretti Autosport's Marco Andretti, marking a rare 1-2 success at the top of the timesheets so far this season for Honda. CLICK: Full practice 1 times from Auto Club Speedway “With these aero kits, everyone is running different levels of downforce, which mixes it up a little bit more,” explained...
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