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IndyCar Grand Prix of Indianapolis Race 1
Indy GP IndyCar: Power beats Harvey, takes 58th pole
Team Penske-Chevrolet ace Will Power scored the 58th pole position of his career with a last-gasp effort to displace the very impressive Jack Harvey in the Meyer Shank Racing-Honda.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Jul 4, 2020, 1:12 AM
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Power turned a 1min10.178sec, an average speed of 125.116mph, to nudge down Harvey’s Meyer Shank car by 0.1874sec which wasn’t quite fast enough on its second run in Firestone Fast Six to hold on to top spot.
It was at this same venue last May that Harvey and MSR scored their first and so far only podium finish.
This was Power's fourth pole for the Grand Prix of Indianapolis, an event he has won three times.
Colton Herta’s Andretti Harding Steinbrenner Autosport-Honda entry was best of Michael Andretti’s cars, beating Graham Rahal’s Rahal Letterman Lanigan-Honda by 0.065sec.
Indy Lights champion Oliver Askew was outstanding for Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet in his first road course qualifying session in the series. He topped Group 2, but took a little too much life out of his tires to truly shine in Firestone Fast 6.
Nonetheless, he will start ahead of defending champion Josef Newgarden who only scraped through the first two rounds of qualifying, and then blew his one attempt at a flyer in the final segment of qualifying, pulling into the pits after abandoning the lap.
In Q2, Scott Dixon missed out on advancing to the Firestone Fast Six by just 0.057sec and will start from seventh, two places ahead of his Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda teammate Felix Rosenqvist, who took pole here last year.
The pair will be separated by Conor Daly who made an excellent impression in Ed Carpenter Racing’s U.S. Air Force car. The same was true of Max Chilton in the sole Carlin entry, who outpaced Andretti Autosport’s Alexander Rossi and Ryan Hunter-Reay for 10th.
In Q1 Group 1, Patricio O’Ward was just 0.2sec slower than teammate Askew who topped the group, but that was enough to leave him in seventh, preventing him from reaching Round 2.
However, O’Ward still outpaced the two Dale Coyne Racing cars of Santino Ferrucci and rookie Alex Palou, two Andretti Autosport cars, and the Rahal Letterman Lanigan entry of Takuma Sato.
A bigger shock was in store in Q1 Group 2, when three-time GP of Indy winner Simon Pagenaud missed the cut, finishing 10th out of 13th. That means the Team Penske driver will roll off from 20th tomorrow.
Meanwhile, series sophomore Marcus Ericsson, who put his Ganassi car third fastest this morning, fell just 0.03sec short of making it into the Top 12.
Given their pace this morning, there was also some disappointment that Spencer Pigot of RLL with Citrone/Buhl Autosport and Ed Carpenter Racing’s Rinus VeeKay failed to advance from Q1, especially in light of respective teammates Rahal and Askew reaching the Fast 6.
The GMR Grand Prix of Indianapolis begins at 12 noon on Saturday, local (Eastern) time.
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Qualifying results:
Cla # Driver Team Time Gap Mph 1 12 Will Power
Team Penske 1'10.177 125.116 2 60
Jack Harvey
Meyer Shank Racing 1'10.365 0.187 124.783 3 88
Colton Herta
Andretti Harding Steinbrenner Autosport 1'10.519 0.341 124.510 4 15 Graham Rahal
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 1'10.584 0.406 124.396 5 7
Oliver Askew
Arrow McLaren SP 1'10.840 0.662 123.946 6 1 Josef Newgarden
Team Penske 7 9
Scott Dixon
Chip Ganassi Racing 1'10.199 0.021 125.079 8 20
Conor Daly
Ed Carpenter Racing 1'10.216 0.039 125.047 9 10
Felix Rosenqvist
Chip Ganassi Racing 1'10.231 0.053 125.022 10 59
Max Chilton
Carlin 1'10.305 0.127 124.889 11 27
Alexander Rossi
Andretti Autosport 1'10.342 0.164 124.823 12 28
Ryan Hunter-Reay
Andretti Autosport 1'10.576 0.398 124.410 13 5
Patricio O'Ward
Arrow McLaren SP 1'10.733 0.555 124.134 14 8 Marcus Ericsson
Chip Ganassi Racing 1'10.628 0.450 124.318 15 18
Santino Ferrucci
Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan 1'10.790 0.612 124.034 16 45 Spencer Pigot
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing with Citrone/Buhl A 1'10.635 0.457 124.307 17 30 Takuma Sato
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 1'10.885 0.707 123.868 18 21
Rinus van Kalmthout
Ed Carpenter Racing 1'10.707 0.529 124.180 19 29
James Hinchcliffe
Andretti Autosport 1'11.147 0.969 123.411 20 22
Simon Pagenaud
Team Penske 1'10.743 0.565 124.115 21 55
Alex Palou
Dale Coyne Racing with Team Goh 1'11.181 1.003 123.352 22 26 Zach Veach
Andretti Autosport 1'11.276 1.098 123.188 23 24
Sage Karam
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 1'11.777 1.599 122.328 24 4
Charlie Kimball
A.J. Foyt Enterprises 1'11.402 1.224 122.970 25 98
Marco Andretti
Andretti Herta Autosport with Marco & Curb-Agajani 1'12.051 1.873 121.863 26 14 Dalton Kellett
A.J. Foyt Enterprises 1'11.587 1.409 122.653 View full results
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