Ryan Hunter-Reay continued to show his IZOD IndyCar Series rivals that they will need to work hard to take the No. 1 from his car.Hunter-Reay, who won at Barber Motorsports Park two weeks ago and won at Long Beach in 2010, was quickest on the opening day of preparations for the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach with a lap of 1 minute, 09.4224 seconds in the No. 1 DHL car for Andretti Autosport. Mike Conway, making his season debut, was second quick in the session (1:09.4603) in the No. 17 blue eCigs car for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing.Defending race winner Will Power was third quick in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske car, followed by rookie Tristan Vautier in the No. 55 Schmidt Peterson Motorsports car and IZOD IndyCar Series points leader Helio Castroneves in the No. 3 Auto Club Team Penske car.Also on April 19, Carlos Munoz extended his streak of pacing the field in practice, qualifying and the race during the initial session for the Long Beach 100.Munoz, driving the No. 26 Dialy-Ser car for Andretti Autosport, moved to the top of the time sheet with about a minute left in the session on the 1.968-mile, 11-turn temporary street circuit with a lap of 1 minute, 15.1004 seconds.DAY 1 NOTEBOOK:Live timing and scoring reports from the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach are available on the Internet at racecontrol.indycar.com. The live timing and scoring module provides statistical information, including track segment speeds, lap information and much more.Feature stories, reports, driver quotes and notes, and photos will be posted on the INDYCAR media web at media.indycar.com. More detailed information, including media advisories and VNF coordinates are also posted on the media web site. Media updates will also be provided on Twitter by following @indycarpr***Pre-practice Quotes from IZOD IndyCar Series drivers:MARCO ANDRETTI (No. 25 RC Cola Chevrolet): "I really worked on consistency in the off-season so it's a decent start to that. But when I look at two of my teammates who have won the first two races I'm working on being consistently better." (About Andretti family history at Long Beach): "My family alone has a lot of history here. A lot of wins between them. I think my dad won his first and last race here if I'm not mistaken."RYAN HUNTER-REAY (No. 1 DHL Chevrolet): "This race has been fantastic in the past. There are a lot of positives here for me. This week I am really looking forward to continuing that roll that Andretti Autosport had for the good part of the last half a year. There is no atmosphere like Long Beach. It is going to be incredibly tough again." (On racing in Southern California): "It is sort of a home race for me having lived here for 8 years in Southern California My wife's whole family is from here. I have family out here so this feels like the second home race of the season for me. Long beach is a race I have been watching for a long time. Came here as a kid and as an INDYCAR fan. The whole Southern California really embraces this race which is what makes a difference."JAMES HINCHCLIFFE (No. 27 GoDaddy Chevrolet): "This race is so awesome. The atmosphere, I think it is the second-longest running race we have next to the [Indy] 500. There is a reason it has gone on for 40 years. It is a hell of an event. Great city. They do a great job. "The fact that the race has been around for so long, there is one thing you can't buy and that is history. All the legends have raced here. All the legends have won here. You add that on to the atmosphere, the environment, the fans, it being right here near the boats, the setting. The combination is what makes it so special."E.J. VISO (No. 5 Team Venezuela/Andretti Autosport/HVM): "This is an amazing track to come to already and I keep having great performances here on qualifying days. This year I'm not thinking too much about qualifying but thinking of the race. Hopefully we can make it happen this weekend. As Marco said with two teammates who have very proudly won the first two races and the championship which I feel like gives me a lot of confidence."IZOD INDYCAR SERIES PRACTICE #1At 10:30 a.m., the ambient temperature was 76 degrees with a relative humidity of 22 percent. Skies were sunny. The track temperature was 102 degrees, according to Firestone engineers.Selected quotes from Rahal Letterman Lanigan availability:GRAHAM RAHAL (No. 15 Midas/Big O Tires Honda): "I think we're really excited to be here. It's one of the most historic venues that we go to each and every year. When you look at the schedule and circle the races you want to win, of course I want to win them all, but this is one of them. I think it would be great not only to win for myself but for this guy (his father Bobby Rahal). He was close how many times? (Bobby replied 'Too Many') It would be to get a win here. We've been close before. I remember in 2009 when I was with Newman-Haas, we were running top three and had a little pit stop miscue on our last stop. Same thing in 2008. I was running in the top three and had contact with Franck Montagny. We've been quick here before, we just need to get the monkey off our back. In practice 1, we had a great start to be there. Obviously with Mike (Conway) being right up there, and James just behind us. I think the Rahal Letterman Lanigan cars are pretty quick."BOBBY RAHAL (Co-owner, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing): "As part of our agreement with blu eCigs, they wanted to come here, and we wanted to be here with them. It's an exciting product to be associated with. This is a much bigger program and we're proud to accommodate with them. We had the chance to put out a third car. It made sense to start to put together a team for the third car. Pleased with the start, for sure, but we have a long way to go. I was telling Marshall Pruett earlier that we need to come off the trailer better and I think we have. It's going to be close, but a good start for the day."Selected quotes from Ryan Briscoe/Mike Hull availability:RYAN BRISCOE (Indianapolis 500 driver, Chip Ganassi Racing): (About returning to Ganassi for Indianapolis 500): "It's obviously a very exciting time for me. Returning to where it all started for me in INDYCAR. I had a great expereince with Ganassi at the Indy 500, we had a great month. I just can't wait to come back. Big thanks to Mike and Chip for giving me this opportunity. We certainly are going to hit this month and try to make the most of it." (About racing Indy with commitment to ALMS): "I have committed myself to Level 5 racing for this year. We have a great program together with  a couple of cars going to Le Mans and doing the American Le Mans Series. So for this year, with Indy with these guys, that's a huge bonus to me to add that." (On if he is upset with the way his season is going): "No, it's just the way it went. I am definitely a very positive natured person and this gives me the opportunity to do Le Mans this year which is a huge event and otherwise I wouldn't be able to. This deal probably wouldn't have come about if things would have gone differently. So maybe this is meant to be. I'm excited. I'm very happy with the way that things are going. Every time I am in a race car, every time I am with the team, whoever it is, I just want to do my best and make my best impression and move forward."MIKE HULL (Managing Director, Chip Ganassi Racing): (About reuniting with Briscoe) "What Chip Ganassi racing has always been about, truthfully, is trying to have drivers at the caliber of Ryan [Briscoe] drive our race cars. So with that itself it is important to us to have a an accomplished, a very very well represented race car drivers. And now we have a fourth one for Indy 500. And that will help us with the partnerships we have with the drivers and the teams in order to get the most out of the extended practices we have there. Everyday is a practice day there until we qualify." (About how the team shops work together): "They way we operate our program it's kind of like we have an underground tunnel because the information flows back and forth quite freely. I think Charlie (Kimball's) results this year proves the fact he is coming a long as a race driver and he has the same access. Quite frankly what he did at Barber is what we expect to happen every time we go racing."

IZOD INDYCAR SERIES POST-PRACTICE QUOTES:

RYAN HUNTER-REAY (No. 1 DHL Chevrolet): "It was great to be back on track here in Long Beach, it always is a great day to be able to practice here. But it was a weird day, just never really got a rhythm with the stoppages and the couple of incidents out there. I really didn't get to see who was involved and what happened, but it took a little bit of time out of what we were trying to accomplish with the car. But again, it's just great to be on track here. Always love Long Beach, always love getting back in the rhythm of this race track, and unfortunately Mike [Conway] likes it too. It's a good time out there, we're always just pushing each other. Unfortunately we didn't get enough work done that we wanted to heading into qualifying on Saturday, but we'll get it done in the morning hopefully in Practice 3 and look forward to qualifying."MIKE CONWAY (No. 17 blu eCigs Honda): "It is hard when you want to get as many laps as you can in here but we got a good amount of laps. I think the most of anyone in the first one. Get rid of the cobwebs and the car felt good, and the same in the second one. We couldn't get a clear run. We got one in, and I think a lot of people, they either got one or they didn't get any so we were lucky to just get the one. It is a shame. We wanted to get through a few changes during that session. But the blu eCigs car feels good from the moment we stepped on the track. I'm just happy to be here. Trying to do a good job for these guys. [The car] feels good. Pretty happy with the balance. I think we have some areas to work on. But to still be running around the top two in the last two sessions is pretty encouraging."SCOTT DIXON (No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing Honda): "The Target car wasn't bad today in the morning session and I think it's fair to say things were moving in the right direction.  In the second session I just lost it on entry and chased it into the wall. It was my fault."DARIO FRANCHITTI (No. 10 Target Chip Ganassi Honda): "It was a difficult afternoon because nobody got more than one or two laps in. I think we made some good progress in the Target car, but I guess we won't really know because of the lack of laps. We'll find out more tomorrow."JOSEF NEWGARDEN (No. 67 Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing Honda): "We had a hot and cold day. Practice 1 was pretty good. We didn't really finish off Practice 1 great, but I think we started the weekend exactly how we wanted to and we seem to have a pretty good base package to work from which is always nice and makes things a lot easier during a weekend. Practice 2 we really didn't get to run. We just kept getting caught out. We had a bit of an issue at the start so we didn't get out early and then once we tried to get rolling there were incidents one after another, which caught us out from even getting a lap going. It's great that tomorrow we'll have another session to work on it because in session 2 we didn't get much time to put in a lap but at least we got a little bit of a feel of the car. Tomorrow morning will be important for qualifying."CHARLIE KIMBALL (No. 83 NovoLog FlexPen Honda): "It wasn't an ideal start to the weekend. I think we have a pretty good car but we just have a couple mechanical things to look at. We have some things to change and try in the morning in set-up. We'll be alright come tomorrow, we know what we need to fix."ALEX TAGLIANI (No. 98 Barracuda Racing Honda): "It only took the Barracuda Racing team one race to figure it out on the street course. We weren't necessarily where we felt we needed to be in St. Pete and now we're definitely back in the hunt. (Engineer) Todd [Malloy] did a fantastic job working through the issues we had in St. Pete and the Barracuda Racing boys have put forth the effort, and it paid off. It looks good for us. We need to continue working at it and hopefully we'll have a great round of qualifying tomorrow."E.J. VISO (No. 5 Team Venezuela/Andretti Autosport/HVM Chevrolet): "First testing day was a little bit tough for us. There's been plenty of red flags due to accidents, and the mileage has been pretty limited. Anyways, we are still working on the setup - still need to find the right one for us. We are going to have a good sit-down with the guys (tonight) and just analyze our data and make a wise decision for tomorrow."TRISTAN VAUTIER (No. 55 Schmidt Peterson Motorsports Honda): "We had big struggles in the morning session, but this afternoon I feel like we made some progress. It's very hard to judge lap times though because there were so many red flags. We're not really sure who got a clean lap in and who didn't. We did make some progress but I think we have a lot of work to be where we want to be."SIMONA DE SILVESTRO (No. 78 Nuclear Entergy Areva KVRT Chevrolet): "Justin had an incident and was stuck into the wall and there was no yellow flag so I think I was the second car behind him and saw him too late and ran into him. It was a bit unfortunate because I think we were pretty quick and had a few things to try today and we are going to have to try and cram everything in tomorrow, but I think we are looking good."SIMON PAGENAUD (No. 77 Schmidt Hamilton HP Motorsports Honda): "We made improvements in the car between sessions so it's good to know that the car has the potential to be where we want it to be. We need to work on the brakes because we are having a few issues there. When my car stops better I'm sure we'll be in a better position. I'm confident so far though."ED CARPENTER (No. 20 Fuzzy's Vodka/Ed Carpenter Racing Chevrolet): "It was an interesting day for us. In the first session, we just weren't very good. We had understeer a lot of places. We didn't unload the car where we needed to be. In the second practice, we were a lot better with Fuzzy's Vodka Chevy. I was disjointed session and very hard to string laps together with the many red flags. The car was much better but I'm still trying to figure it out for much of the session. The time sheet doesn't really look good but I feel much better about the car going into Saturday's runs. We still have gotten more laps today than we didn't last year on Friday. With the rain last year, Friday was a complete washout."TAKUMA SATO (No. 14 ABC Supply A.J. Foyt Racing Honda): "Unfortunately it was a short day of work for the ABC Supply team. The car felt pretty good right away. Red flags interrupted the morning session [once] and the afternoon session [three times] which is a shame because we wanted to try a couple things and we couldn't go through the test. We had to stop early in the last session because of a mechanical issue so it wasn't very productive. However, we will concentrate on what we need to test tomorrow morning, get through that program and be ready for qualifying in the afternoon."HELIO CASTRONEVES (No. 3 Auto Club Team Penske Chevrolet): "The Auto Club Chevrolet was really good today, we actually had a faster lap than we showed but that got taken away. We are happy with the gains we made between the sessions and the car should be fast all weekend. I am excited to see what we can do in qualifying tomorrow."AJ ALLMENDIGER (No. 2 IZOD Team Penske Chevrolet): "We were a little off in the first session but luckily the No. 2 Penske Automotive Chevrolet made some gains in the second practice. After seven years away there are definitely some differences from what I remember, especially with how rough the track was. All in all a tough day but a productive day and we are ready for a good qualifying session tomorrow."WILL POWER (No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet): "We still have some work to do on the Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet but P3 isn't a bad place to start. We are going to find what we need for those last bits of speed and be ready for what is going to be a really competitive qualifying session tomorrow."MARCO ANDRETTI (No. 25 RC Cola Chevrolet): "The RC Cola car felt pretty good today. There is still a lot of speed out there for us to find, and I am feeling optimistic thinking about our potential heading into tomorrows practice. Today we tried a lot of different things, but set ups are always a tricky thing to figure out. It's great that the track is pretty similar to a year ago, so we can definitely put something together that will keep us competitive this weekend."JAMES HINCHCLIFFE (No. 27 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet): "Strong first day, I think for the whole team. We had a quick car in practice one and, I think, we had a quick car in practice two - we didn't get to put the laps together because of all the red flags. It's unfortunate, you know, we're not getting as much track time as we'd like. There are things we want to test and things we want to try, and just haven't been able to get to them. When you look at race at Barber and this week again here there's just no enough track time to really go through it. It's tough. It makes it difficult for everyone, but it's the same for everyone. We're doing a pretty good job as a team and hopefully we can do it tomorrow when it counts in qualifying and get the Go Daddy car up front."ORIOL SERVIA (No 22. Panther DRR Chevrolet): "I think that was the strangest session since I've been racing! I didn't get one - not one - clean lap without running into a yellow or a car crashing in front of me. We just have to keep improving the car and see what we have tomorrow."

 FIRESTONE INDY LIGHTS POST-PRACTICE QUOTESCARLOS MUNOZ (No. 26 Dialy-Ser/Andretti Autosport): "It helps that I have experience from last year. It helps me a lot. I know the circuit now, I know what I need. I have more confidence in the car so I need less time to adapt to the circuit. I have a great car, compared to last year we've improved the car a lot so that's why we were on top. It was a good practice." I think I was quite good year last year. I finished fifth in the race and qualified fourth. We had a great car, but it's really easy to do mistakes in this circuit. There were a lot of red flags last year, and in this session there was two red flags because of crashes. So it's easy to do a mistake, that's the main key - don't do any mistakes. It's a difficult circuit so it's going to be a tough race.PETER DEMPSEY (No. 5 Belardi Auto Racing): "It felt fantastic out there today. No better place to come and race in the sun than Long Beach, Calif. I love this place. I had a good weekend here two years ago and hopefully I can carry that momentum here this weekend and put that pressure on Carlos and Jack and get back into the championship battle." (About battles back and forth for P1) "It was tough out there today. Carlos had great position being the first car out of the pits, and Zach it's his first time here so I understand it taking some time to get up to speed so those things were effective me getting some clear laps. I just kept getting some traffic."JUAN PABLO GARCIA (No. 2 TMR-International-Euclid Chemical): "Car was good especially on the beginning of the session. Did not get as much track time as I would have liked due to red & yellow flags. I am still dealing with under steer & a some over steer. We made some changes to the tire pressure to see if that would help. The car is fast and we should be fast in qualifying tomorrow."