The 2014 Verizon IndyCar Series champion’s fastest lap in the shootout, a 61.0640sec lap of the 1.8-mile course, beat Scott Dixon’s Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda by 0.1579sec, which in turn edged James Hinchcliffe’s Schmidt Peterson Motorsports-Honda by a mere 0.082sec.

Josef Newgarden, despite finishing 0.66sec behind new teammate Power, will roll off fourth, while Takuma Sato overturned his grim weekend so far to end up as fastest Andretti Autosport-Honda in fifth.

Sixth went to the second Ganassi car of Tony Kanaan, who in Q2 visited an escape road and rejoined the track just in time to muddle up teammate Max Chilton’s flying lap. That left Chilton a frustrated seventh after Q2, ahead of Alexander Rossi, Charlie Kimball, Graham Rahal, and Ryan Hunter Reay.

Hunter-Reay brushed the wall on the exit of Turn 8, requiring his rear suspension and rear wing to be checked over by his Andretti Autosport crew, but the left-rear toelink was bent and couldn’t quite be replaced in time to get back out and set a representative time.

IndyCar sophomore Spencer Pigot’s 13^th place meant he managed to outqualify two Team Penskes, Simon Pagenaud and Helio Castroneves, although Ed Carpenter teammate JR Hildebrand was less happy, in 19^th.

Marco Andretti was frustrated by oversteer and ended up 15^th.

Ed Jones will start ahead of Dale Coyne Racing teammate Sebastien Bourdais, who lost his two fastest times for causing a red flag with a spin and stall in Q1, as he found the front brakes gripped and the rears didn’t.

Pos	#	Driver	Team	Time	Gap
1	12	Will Power	Team Penske	1'01.0640
2	9	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	1'01.2219	0.1579
3	5	James Hinchcliffe	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	1'01.3039	0.2399
4	2	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	1'01.7229	0.6589
5	26	Takuma Sato	Andretti Autosport	1'01.9851	0.9211
6	10	Tony Kanaan	Chip Ganassi Racing	1'02.0824	1.0184
7	8	Max Chilton	Chip Ganassi Racing	1'01.3516	0.2876
8	98	Alexander Rossi	Andretti Autosport	1'01.5198	0.4558
9	83	Charlie Kimball	Chip Ganassi Racing	1'01.6066	0.5426
10	15	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	1'01.6181	0.5541
11	14	Carlos Munoz	AJ Foyt Racing	1'01.7399	0.6759
12	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	1'03.1588	2.0948
13	20	Spencer Pigot	Ed Carpenter Racing	1'01.5898	0.5258
14	1	Simon Pagenaud	Team Penske	1'01.6129	0.5489
15	27	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	1'01.6070	0.5430
16	3	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske	1'01.7159	0.6519
17	7	Mikhail Aleshin	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	1'01.7674	0.7034
18	19	Ed Jones	Dale Coyne Racing	1'01.7598	0.6958
19	21	J.R. Hildebrand	Ed Carpenter Racing	1'01.8465	0.7825
20	4	Conor Daly	AJ Foyt Racing	1'02.2030	1.1390
21	18	Sébastien Bourdais	Dale Coyne Racing	No time