Honda Indy Toronto Qualifying: Top 10 drivers quotes

P.	N°	Driver	Team (Engine)	Time/deficit
1	9	Scott Dixon	Ganassi (C)	59.9073
"Well, I think it started with the first few laps. I was all down and out. I'm like, 'Oh that doesn't look so good.' I couldn't get my splits to go negative and the last lap and then we just crossed the line to get another lap. They are like, 'Keep going, keep going'. Just gave it our all and the car just kept actually getting quicker. I think the Firestone tires finally came in. I was probably not as hard on them as I needed to be right out of the gate. So stoked for Team Target. It's great to be back on the pole. We haven't had a pole this year, but huge credit to the team they did a hell of a job this weekend. We struggled a little bit with speed. You've got to leave it to qualifying, that's when it makes the most. But tomorrow is race day and hopefully we will put on a great show for all the fans here."
2	3	Helio Castroneves	Penske (C)	59.9425
"What am I going to say? What am I going to say? I can't believe it. What is it, two hundredths of a second? Congrats to them but the Shell Pennzoil Chevrolet car is really fast. We made a lot of change, I'm talking about a lot of change. All the changes we made seem to be working. Gosh! Come on, (Scott) Dixon! Really? Really? The first session was not good. All credit to (engineer) Jonathan (Diuguid). He hit the right spot on the car on the setup. The second I put the reds (alternate tires) on the second session, my car was like 'Whoa. Back in the game here.' When we went out again on the third one, about to repeat the same lap time we did on the first run. But again, we did not want to wait until the end, since the track always got a little bit better, we did not want to wait till the end because of a yellow or red flag coming out and then would have screwed up with our laps because we knew we were only dealing with two laps. Ganassi is not a rookie team. They're champions. They know what they're doing. Good job by Scott."
3	22	Simon Pagenaud	Penske (C)	1:00.2293
"The PPG car was tremendous all weekend. Kind of missed the balance a little bit. Q1 was fantastic. We started picking up quite a bit of understeer. We couldn't really adjust the car anymore for the round. We start a little bit of pace starting in Q2. We gambled on the black tires in the end, which I thought could have worked actually. (Scott) Dixon coming out of pits in front of me, it was a little difficult for me. It broke me out of my rhythm. It's not him. He didn't block me or anything. It just took me out of my rhythm a little bit and I didn't extract the best out of the car that lap. That should have been the lap that did it. You should always be happy when you're in the Firestone Fast Six. Third is a good place to start. Last time we won we were third with the PPG car, so I'm happy."
4	12	Will Power	Penske (C)	1:00.4085
"Well actually the last run there I let Helio (Castroneves) go and I went out in the marbles. Spent a lap and a half getting marbles off my tires, but still a good result, starting P4 for the Verizon Chevrolet. It is tough out there, easy to make mistakes, very slippery surfaces. Unless you get everything right you don't get the lap time. (On track changes) I think it will be harder to actually follow in (Turn) 11 just because of how accurate you have to be not to hit the apex wall. The wall juts out a little bit. It's going to be tough to get a run on someone there into (Turn) 1. You still got good passing zones in (Turn) 3. It makes it a more challenging track, honestly, the way it is right now."
5	11	Sébastien Bourdais	KVSH (C)	1:00.4221
"The Hydroxycut machine has been fast all weekend. We just didn't get it done in qualifying. It is what it is. We kind of shot ourselves in the foot in the Firestone Fast Six. We only got one lap on our last run and we should have gotten two. I don't think we could have taken the pole, but maybe the second row. Overall, I am happy to have made it to the Firestone Fast Six. We will see what we can do tomorrow."
6	5	James Hinchcliffe	Schmidt (H)	1:01.5637
"I'm really pleased with the result today. We got back into the Fast Six after two weeks of shot-gunning the field. It's kind of nice to be back at the sharp end of the grid. The Arrow Electronics guys did a great job. It's such a tough track out here with the conditions, the surface changes, the bumps obviously, but they did what they had to do and gave me a car that could get up there. I'm proud of all of them and hopefully the best starting spot I've ever had here turns into the best finish I've ever had here."
7	18	Conor Daly	Coyne (H)	1:00.5693
“It’s great to start seventh tomorrow! It’s our best starting position of the year. It feels great to be fighting for that top six and fighting right at the front of the Honda pack. It’s a little painful, and it a bit of shame, to be knocked out of the Firestone Fast Six by Hinch (James Hinchcliffe) but because it’s him it’s fine, he’s the hometown hero. I’m just happy with the progress that we’ve made. We keep improving from race to race and that’s what we have to keep doing. I can’t wait for tomorrow.”
8	21	Josef Newgarden	Carpenter (C)	1:00.5885
“It’s always great being here, so many fans come out and see us. Thanks everyone in Toronto for supporting IndyCar, I love running here! As far as qualifying, we’re battling the speed aspect of it. I think we have a great car, we were just missing some grip there with that last set of tires. We were a bit stronger on our first qualifying run. I’m not sure quite what we need at the moment, we’re good in some sections but weak in others. We need to try and solve that problem. I have a lot of faith with ECR and the Preferred Freezer crew, we should be able to get on it tomorrow!”
9	2	Juan Pablo Montoya	Penske (C)	1:00.6532
"I thought The DeVilbiss Chevy recovered well. It was tough in qualifying with the used tires, but I am happy with how we recovered from the weekend. We have a great race car and I'm looking forward to the race tomorrow."
10	7	Mikhail Aleshin	Schmidt (H)	1:00.6635
"I think the SMP Racing crew did a good job with this session. Tenth place in qualifying isn't the best position but it's not the worst either. We know what we need to work on for tomorrow's race, and the race is what really matters. We have 85 laps to move forward and that's a long way, so we're fine."