Kimball lapped the course at 222.364 and 222.747mph to set an average of 222.556 to beat de facto team leader Scott Dixon by 0.04mph, as Tony Kanaan and Max Chilton capped a great qualifying session for Ganassi with fourth and sixth respectively.

Alexander Rossi led the Andretti Autosport foursome with third fastest time, but arguably the star of the session was Tristan Vautier for Dale Coyne Racing-Honda. In the substitute role for Sebastien Bourdais, he set a 221.801mph over his two laps to grab fifth place.

Mikhail Aleshin lead the Schmidt Peterson Motorsports-Honda charge in seventh, with Indy 500 winner Takuma Sato in eighth.

Top Chevrolet runners were Will Power and Helio Castroneves in ninth and 10^th, 1.3mph off top spot, and Power said his car was trimmed out as much as it could be.

Carlos Munoz did not participate in the session and will start 22^nd.

Qualifying results:

Pos.	#	Driver	Time	Gap	Mph
1	83	Charlie Kimball	46.5861		222.556
2	9	Scott Dixon	46.5944	0.0083	222.516
3	98	Alexander Rossi	46.6098	0.0237	222.442
4	10	Tony Kanaan	46.7013	0.1152	222.007
5	18	Tristan Vautier	46.7445	0.1584	221.801
6	8	Max Chilton	46.7756	0.1895	221.654
7	7	Mikhail Aleshin	46.8105	0.2244	221.489
8	26	Takuma Sato	46.8171	0.2310	221.458
9	12	Will Power	46.8553	0.2692	221.277
10	3	Helio Castroneves	46.8716	0.2855	221.200
11	15	Graham Rahal	46.9237	0.3376	220.954
12	1	Simon Pagenaud	46.9470	0.3609	220.845
13	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	46.9764	0.3903	220.707
14	20	Ed Carpenter	47.0231	0.4370	220.487
15	27	Marco Andretti	47.0593	0.4732	220.318
16	5	James Hinchcliffe	47.1264	0.5403	220.004
17	2	Josef Newgarden	47.1387	0.5526	219.947
18	21	J.R. Hildebrand	47.3512	0.7651	218.960
19	19	Ed Jones	47.7095	1.1234	217.315
20	88	Gabby Chaves	48.0976	1.5115	215.562
21	4	Conor Daly	48.1066	1.5205	215.521
22	14	Carlos Munoz	no time