Franchitti leads pre-quals practice at #EdmontonIndy
Dario Franchitti surged to the top of the charts in the final moments of this morning's practice session at the Edmonton Indy, putting up a lap of 76.89 seconds to push Target Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Scott Dixon off of P1. Dixon is set to start farther back in the field thanks to a 10-spot grid penalty for using his sixth engine of the season (he lost engine No. 5 during the race two weeks ago at Toronto).
Will Power also broke into the 76-second range late in the session to wind up third-quickest. Justin Wilson and Canada's Alex Tagliani were fourth and fifth-fastest, respectively.
Qualifying for Sunday's 75-lap main event will begin today at 3 pm MT. Follow @estradawriting on Twitter for updates.
Here's the times from this morning's practice:
| Rank | Car | Driver | Engine | Diff. | Best Lap |
| 1 |  |
Dario Franchitti |  |
0 | 1:16.8904 |
| 2 |  |
Scott Dixon | |
0.0263 | 1:16.9167 |
| 3 |  |
Will Power |  |
0.0717 | 1:16.9621 |
| 4 |  |
Justin Wilson | |
0.1839 | 1:17.0743 |
| 5 |  |
Alex Tagliani | |
0.2133 | 1:17.1037 |
| 6 |  |
Takuma Sato | |
0.2404 | 1:17.1308 |
| 7 |  |
Simon Pagenaud | |
0.4521 | 1:17.3425 |
| 8 |  |
Ryan Hunter-Reay | |
0.4532 | 1:17.3436 |
| 9 |  |
EJ Viso | |
0.4558 | 1:17.3462 |
| 10 |  |
Graham Rahal | |
0.5373 | 1:17.4277 |
| 11 |  |
James Jakes | |
0.5622 | 1:17.4526 |
| 12 |  |
Sebastien Bourdais | |
0.5948 | 1:17.4852 |
| 13 |  |
Helio Castroneves | |
0.6014 | 1:17.4918 |
| 14 |  |
Josef Newgarden | |
0.6513 | 1:17.5417 |
| 15 |  |
Mike Conway | |
0.7673 | 1:17.6577 |
| 16 |  |
Ryan Briscoe | |
0.7825 | 1:17.6729 |
| 17 |  |
Tony Kanaan | |
0.9227 | 1:17.8131 |
| 18 |  |
Rubens Barrichello | |
0.9756 | 1:17.8660 |
| 19 |  |
Charlie Kimball | |
1.0079 | 1:17.8983 |
| 20 |  |
Oriol Servia | |
1.0717 | 1:17.9621 |
| 21 |  |
James Hinchcliffe | |
1.1294 | 1:18.0198 |
| 22 |  |
JR Hildebrand | |
1.1768 | 1:18.0672 |
| 23 |  |
Marco Andretti | |
1.2904 | 1:18.1808 |
| 24 |  |
Simona de Silvestro |  |
1.4850 | 1:18.3754 |
| 25 |  |
Ed Carpenter | |
1.5632 | 1:18.4536 |
