Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon were the first drivers to break into the 60-second range in opening practice for the Honda Indy Toronto, the 10th round of the 2012 IZOD IndyCar Series season. Simon Pagenaud in third made it three Hondas topping the charts ahead of five Chevrolets, fastest of whom was Tony Kanaan.

Unfortunately the session was marred by two incidents, both involving Justin Wilson. The first came when Wilson's car locked up in the pits and hit four crew members – one of his own at Dale Coyne Racing and three Dragon crew members in the pit in front of it.

A medical update from IndyCar medical director Dr. Michael Olinger indicated Michael Cole (Coyne) and Daniel Martin (Dragon) were treated and released from the infield care center. Dragon crewmembers Chuck Homan (leg) and Raffi Aroyan (ankle) were transferred to St. Michael's Hospital for further evaluation of their injuries.

Wilson, who was then stationary until the final minutes of the session, then had another issue when he nearly collided with Alex Tagliani's car, which was in the wall at Turn 8. Wilson had to take evasive action to avoid contact with Tagliani's car and hit the wall himself, causing front wing damage.

“I came down pit lane and the car refused to go into neutral," Wilson said after the incidents. "So I was stuck in first, I couldn't get neutral, and, on top of that, these carbon brakes don't work when they're cold, so was hard on the brakes and I couldn't stop. At the last second I tried to dive into the wall to take speed off, but those guys were there and had no idea I was coming and even diving to the wall I still hit them. I really hope they are OK.”

“I turned the corner and saw that the track was blocked and that Tag was in the wall,” Wilson added on the Tagliani incident. “I couldn't stop, so rather than hit him head-on I just turned back and hit the wall. It was just a horrible session.  We'll just have to regroup and hopefully get back out for the next session.”

The second session will go green just before 2 p.m. Eastern. 

Pos  Driver               Team/Car                Time       Gap
 1.  Dario Franchitti     Ganassi DW12-Honda      1m00.8972s
 2.  Scott Dixon          Ganassi DW12-Honda      1m00.9415s  + 0.0443s
 3.  Simon Pagenaud       Schmidt DW12-Honda      1m01.0500s  + 0.1528s
 4.  Tony Kanaan          KV DW12-Chevy           1m01.0548s  + 0.1576s
 5.  Will Power           Penske DW12-Chevy       1m01.0764s  + 0.1792s
 6.  EJ Viso              KV DW12-Chevy           1m01.1214s  + 0.2242s
 7.  Ryan Briscoe         Penske DW12-Chevy       1m01.2260s  + 0.3288s
 8.  Ryan Hunter-Reay     Andretti DW12-Chevy     1m01.2480s  + 0.3508s
 9.  Helio Castroneves    Penske DW12-Chevy       1m01.4202s  + 0.5230s
10.  Takuma Sato          Rahal DW12-Honda        1m01.4414s  + 0.5442s
11.  Graham Rahal         Ganassi DW12-Honda      1m01.4653s  + 0.5681s
12.  Oriol Servia         Panther/DRR DW12-Chevy  1m01.5347s  + 0.6375s
13.  Alex Tagliani        Herta DW12-Honda        1m01.6317s  + 0.7345s
14.  Charlie Kimball      Ganassi DW12-Honda      1m01.7253s  + 0.8281s
15.  James Hinchcliffe    Andretti DW12-Chevy     1m01.9272s  + 1.0300s
16.  Mike Conway          Foyt DW12-Honda         1m01.9506s  + 1.0534s
17.  Sebastien Bourdais   Dragon DW12-Chevy       1m01.9605s  + 1.0633s
18.  Marco Andretti       Andretti DW12-Chevy     1m01.9673s  + 1.0701s
19.  JR Hildebrand        Panther DW12-Chevy      1m02.0021s  + 1.1049s
20.  James Jakes          Coyne DW12-Honda        1m02.0316s  + 1.1344s
21.  Simona de Silvestro  HVM DW12-Lotus          1m02.1949s  + 1.2977s
22.  Ed Carpenter         Carpenter DW12-Chevy    1m02.2212s  + 1.3240s
23.  Rubens Barrichello   KV DW12-Chevy           1m02.4649s  + 1.5677s
24.  Justin Wilson        Coyne DW12-Honda
25.  Josef Newgarden      Fisher DW12-Honda