Team Penske’s Will Power secured his 55th pole of the career and 8th at St. Petersburg after defeating his teammate by just 0.0976 seconds.
Will Power did a 60.459s around the 2.8 km long track with an average speed of 172.487 kph to beat his teammate Josef Newgarden by 9th hundredths of a second.
Felix Rosenqvist in his Honda powered Chip Ganassi edged his teammate Scott Dixon by 0.16 second. Felix will start his first IndyCar in third behind Josef Newgarden.
Both Chip Ganassi are ahead of Ryan Hunter and Alexander Rossi in Andretti Racing, but both Chip Ganassi drivers were somewhat lucky to be in top six shootout.
Harding Steinbrenner Racing’s rookie Colton Herta made it to Q2 but was penalized for blocking Charlie Kimball on his flying lap. Despite being 3rd fastest in Q2, Herta didn’t make it to Shootout and will start race in 11th tomorrow.
In Q1, Group 2, Scott Dixon spun on one of his flying laps, he tried to do another lap but wasn’t fast enough compared to the first one. Takuma Sato brought out a yellow flag when he took the escape road and caused the following car to slow down. The stewards deleted his lap. Sato lost the chance to make it to Q2 and allowed Dixon back in.
Q1, Group 2, was messy due to red flags. Marco Andretti stopped at the pit entrance, bringing out a red flag. He didn’t set any lap time and will start 17th tomorrow.
Soon after action resumed, Santino Ferrucci skated his Dale Coyne Racing into the wall at turn 13. He will start 23rd tomorrow, ahead of Max Chilton.
That left Carlin-Chevrolet’s Charlie Kimball leading those advancing into Q2, including rookie team DragonSpeed-Chevy with rookie driver Ben Hanley, who was fifth.
Key drivers to miss out due to the disruptions were Ferrucci’s teammate Sebastien Bourdais – two-time and defending St. Pete winner – and his compatriot Simon Pagenaud in the #22 Penske-Chevy.
Qualifying Result of St. Petersburg GP.
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