Sato set the fastest warm-up lap speed (218.785mph), the fastest one-lap speed (220.045) and the fastest average – 219.639 – to grab pole position in the Andretti Autosport-Honda. It's the seventh pole of his IndyCar career.

However it was a day of mixed emotions for team owner Michael Andretti. Hunter-Reay had to be helped from his car which pancaked against the wall with the left-side, after wriggling out of control at Turn 3 at the end of his warm-up lap, and had to limp to the ambulance with the aid of two safety crew members. Alexander Rossi blew his first lap despite having the potential for pole, and Marco Andretti struggled with adjustment to his car as track conditions changed.

Simon Pagenaud took an excellent second place for Team Penske-Chevrolet on a weekend when Honda appeared to have the edge, clocking a 219.395mph average to beat Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda’s Charlie Kimball and Tony Kanaan and Penske teammate Will Power, who was second driver to hit the track.

Graham Rahal was seventh fastest for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda to beat the other star of the weekend, besides Sato. Gabby Chaves, in only the third race weekend for Harding Racing, was eighth fastest, and third quickest Chevy driver, beating the Ganassi cars of Scott Dixon (who admittedly was first car on track) and Max Chilton.

Points leader Josef Newgarden was a disappointing 14^th, but he was happier than the fourth Penske of Helio Castroneves who shunted at Turn 1 on his first lap after setting fastest warm-up speed to that point.

The third driver to not complete a qualifying run was Ed Carpenter, who wasn’t allowed to even start one. Following his shunt in the morning practice session, his Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet team failed by just six minutes to make the tech inspection line with its repaired car.

Cla	#	Driver	Time	Gap	Mph
1	26	Takuma Sato	1'21.9526		219.639
2	1	Simon Pagenaud	1'22.0437	0.0911	219.395
3	83	Charlie Kimball	1'22.0536	0.1010	219.369
4	10	Tony Kanaan	1'22.1874	0.2348	219.012
5	12	Will Power	1'22.3092	0.3566	218.688
6	98	Alexander Rossi	1'22.3338	0.3812	218.622
7	15	Graham Rahal	1'22.5313	0.5787	218.099
8	88	Gabby Chaves	1'22.5612	0.6086	218.020
9	9	Scott Dixon	1'22.6376	0.6850	217.819
10	8	Max Chilton	1'22.6644	0.7118	217.748
11	19	Ed Jones	1'22.7340	0.7814	217.565
12	5	James Hinchcliffe	1'22.7372	0.7846	217.556
13	18	Esteban Gutierrez	1'22.8377	0.8851	217.292
14	2	Josef Newgarden	1'22.8597	0.9071	217.235
15	7	Sebastian Saavedra	1'22.9712	1.0186	216.943
16	27	Marco Andretti	1'23.0254	1.0728	216.801
17	4	Conor Daly	1'23.3471	1.3945	215.964
18	14	Carlos Munoz	1'23.6762	1.7236	215.115
19	21	J.R. Hildebrand	1'23.7256	1.7730	214.988
20	20	Ed Carpenter	0.0000
21	3	Helio Castroneves	0.0000
22	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	0.0000