Will Power keeps his good momentum, he has set the best time on the first practice session, more than two tenths of a second faster than EJ Viso, and almost a half second faster than Oriol Servia. Differences from third to nineteenth have been very little (less than one second). Times are still far from the record of the circuit, set by Will Power last year (1:17.5921). The second practice session will be held 2:30 pm (ET), 6:30 pm (GMT).
| P | Driver | Time | Dif. | Laps |
| 1 | Will Power | 1:20.8632 | — | 9 |
| 2 | EJ Viso | 1:21.1256 | 0,2624 | 16 |
| 3 | Oriol Servia | 1:21.2977 | 0,4345 | 11 |
| 4 | Graham Rahal | 1:21.3134 | 0,4502 | 13 |
| 5 | Scott Dixon | 1:21.3247 | 0,4615 | 6 |
| 6 | Josef Newgarden | 1:21.4165 | 0,5533 | 15 |
| 7 | Simon Pagenaud | 1:21.4521 | 0,5889 | 10 |
| 8 | Tristan Vautier | 1:21.4625 | 0,5993 | 13 |
| 9 | Marco Andretti | 1:21.5462 | 0,683 | 7 |
| 10 | Sebastien Bourdais | 1:21.5508 | 0,6876 | 14 |
| 11 | James Jakes | 1:21.6477 | 0,7845 | 11 |
| 12 | Helio Castroneves | 1:21.7964 | 0,9332 | 11 |
| 13 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | 1:21.8010 | 0,9378 | 7 |
| 14 | Justin Wilson | 1:21.8058 | 0,9426 | 11 |
| 15 | Takuma Sato | 1:21.8487 | 0,9855 | 16 |
| 16 | Charlie Kimball | 1:21.8769 | 1,0137 | 12 |
| 17 | James Hinchcliffe | 1:22.1269 | 1,2637 | 6 |
| 18 | Sebastian Saavedra | 1:22.1411 | 1,2779 | 10 |
| 19 | Tony Kanaan | 1:22.1730 | 1,3098 | 15 |
| 20 | Simona De Silvestro | 1:22.3078 | 1,4446 | 18 |
| 21 | Luca Filippi | 1:22.5895 | 1,7263 | 14 |
| 22 | Dario Franchitti | 1:23.4799 | 2,6167 | 5 |
| 23 | Ed Carpenter | 1:24.8443 | 3,9811 | 15 |
| 24 | Stefan Wilson | 1:25.2797 | 4,4165 | 19 |