Pagenaud leads Penske 1-2-3 for Detroit race 1
Simon Pagenaud scored his third pole position of the season as he and Team Penske-Chevrolet teammates Helio Castroneves and Juan Pablo Montoya will line up second and third.
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The runaway championship leader lapped the 2.35-mile course in 1min14.9166sec to edge Castroneves by a mere 0.0119sec, with Montoya over 0.6sec away.
Perhaps most surprising is that the fourth member of the Penske quartet, Will Power, will only roll off ninth, after dominating this morning practice. The Aussie tagged the wall hard with the left-rear of the #12 car in Q1 and although he was still fast enough to advance to Q2, his car never looked fast enough to reach the Firestone Fast Six session.
Instead, James Hinchcliffe will start fourth in the Schmidt Peterson Motorsport-Honda, with Carlos Munoz fifth for Andretti Autosport-Honda, and reigning champion Scott Dixon sixth, just ahead of his Chip Ganassi Racing-Chevy teammate Tony Kanaan and Charlie Kimball.
Graham Rahal will start 10th for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda, Takuma Sato 11th for AJ Foyt Racing and Mikhail Aleshin 12th in the second SPM car.
It was a disastrous session for Munoz’s AA teammates, with Ryan Hunter-Reay (held up by KVSH Racing’s Sebastien Bourdais), Marco Andretti and Indy 500 winner Alexander Rossi all failing to escape Q1.
Another high-profile driver who failed to reach Q2 was Josef Newgarden’s Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet machine.
P. | N° | DRIVER | TEAM | TIME |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 22 | Simon Pagenaud | Penske (C) | 1:14.9166 |
2 | 3 | Helio Castroneves | Penske (C) | 1:14.9285 |
3 | 2 | Juan Pablo Montoya | Penske (C) | 1:15.5659 |
4 | 5 | James Hinchcliffe | Schmidt (H) | 1:15.7708 |
5 | 26 | Carlos Muñoz | Andretti (H) | 1:16.3897 |
6 | 9 | Scott Dixon | Ganassi (C) | 1:16.4613 |
7 | 10 | Tony Kanaan | Ganassi (C) | 1:15.5508 |
8 | 83 | Charlie Kimball | Ganassi (C) | 1:15.6712 |
9 | 12 | Will Power | Penske (C) | 1:15.7142 |
10 | 15 | Graham Rahal | Rahal (H) | 1:15.7172 |
11 | 14 | Takuma Sato | Foyt (H) | 1:16.0998 |
12 | 7 | Mikhail Aleshin | Schmidt (H) | 1:16.2665 |
13 | 11 | Sébastien Bourdais | KVSH (C) | 1:16.1087 |
14 | 21 | Josef Newgarden | Carpenter (C) | 1:16.3154 |
15 | 28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | Andretti (H) | 1:16.2643 |
16 | 18 | Conor Daly | Coyne (H) | 1:16.6370 |
17 | 98 | Alexander Rossi | Andretti-Herta (H) | 1:16.4512 |
18 | 8 | Max Chilton | Ganassi (C) | 1:16.7138 |
19 | 27 | Marco Andretti | Andretti (H) | 1:16.4965 |
20 | 19 | Gabby Chaves | Coyne (H) | 1:16.9140 |
21 | 20 | Spencer Pigot | Carpenter (C) | 1:17.6894 |
22 | 41 | Jack Hawksworth | Foyt (H) | 1:18.3022 |
(C) = Chevrolet, (H) = Honda
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