Power Leads Opening Practice Session at Milwaukee Mile

WEST ALLIS, Wis. – IZOD IndyCar Series points leader Will Power topped the opening practice session as teams began preparations for the Milwaukee 225 at The Milwaukee Mile.

Power, driving the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Dallara/Honda/Firestone, turned a lap of 21.7957 seconds (167.648 mph). His closest pursuer in the point standings, Target Chip Ganassi Racing's Dario Franchitti, was second at 167.462 mph in the No. 10 Downy car, while Helio Castroneves was third in the No. 3 Guidepoint Systems car at 167.368 mph.

Alex Tagliani and Vitor Meira were uninjured in separate incidents in Turn 4 during the session. Tagliani's team was able to repair the car and he returned to practice at the end of the session while Meira's car was too damaged to continue.

DAY 1 NOTEBOOK:
Six different open-wheel racing series are represented this weekend at the Milwaukee Mile. Scott Dixon and Tony Kanaan, both race winners at the Mile and IZOD IndyCar Series champions, have been watching the track activity this week.

"We stay at the racetrack so it's nice to see a bunch of different cars and the drivers coming up," said Kanaan, who's driving the No. 82 GEICO KV Racing Technology-Lotus entry. "I think it's great not just for us but also for the fans so they can come watch everybody race this weekend."

Added Dixon, driver of the No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car: "From a category that starts out with kids all the way up to IndyCars is a great weekend for all. And being the Father's Day weekend it's cool for fathers and their kids to spend some time together at the track and see different kinds of racing. Some tracks that we go to, apart from our race there's not much going on so it's nice to have a lot going on and different kinds of fomulaes you can see."

A few minutes after climbing from the No. 82 GEICO KV Racing Technology-Lotus car for the initial practice session of the weekend on the Milwaukee Mile, Tony Kanaan climbed in the Indy Racing Experience two-seater to treat three-time Ironman triathlon champion Chris Lieto to a high-speed ride.

Kanaan, who will compete in the Ford Ironman World Championship (a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mike bike and 26.2-mile run consecutively) in Hawaii in October, and Lieto hooked up a day earlier to test their Trek bicycles on the oval.

"It was crazy. For me, the most surprising thing was how fast you're going in the corners," Lieto said.

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They call me Snake-Bite because I strike fast right off the line. My SHO Taurus has been tuned inside and out and may be the fastest car in the city. That’s right, a Taurus SHO with a V6. Take my word for it, you come a callin’ and you’re gonna get bit. Just ask that punk who rolled up from the ATL and got sent home crying. You see here on Highland, we race for pinks–you know–ownership papers. Thanks to that whiney Georgia boy, I’m the new owner of a cherry ’69 Chevelle.

The other reason they call me Snake-Bite is my passion for Venom brand fuel injectors. These babies deliver all the fuel the old SHO can handle. After I installed the requisite trifecta of chip, intake and exhaust, I knew there had to be more power behind that blue oval. My boy Johnny Neptune, the owner of Neptune’s Guns and Liquor turned me on to performance injectors. We were out in Endicott’s cornfield blasting whisky bottles with Johnny’s Desert Eagle when I told him I needed more power for the SHO. Johnny turned, fixed his blurry eye on me–the good one–and in a grumbled whisper he scratched, “You ready to ride the snake?”

Ready I was. There’s no way I was gonna let my reign over Highland Avenue slip away, so I was prepared to do whatever Johnny said. I got online and ordered a set of Venom Super Flow Fuel Injectors. Venom claims a 10% increase in flow over the stockers and I believe it. They cost about 250 smackers for the set of 6 and were worth every penny. Johnny came by with a twelver and we swapped the injectors out in about 2 hours. When I fired the SHO up, I could tell right away I was in for one wild ride.

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