Will Power, seen here from earlier in the season, scored the pole for Sunday’s Izod IndyCar event at Sonoma. Photo courtesy IndyCar/LAT USA
Will Power has stressed a one-race-at-a-time approach to the IZOD IndyCar Series championship as the 2012 season winds down. Earning the pole for the GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma for the third consecutive year is certainly a less stressful starting point.
Power, who has won the past two races at Sonoma from the pole, set an IZOD IndyCar Series qualifying record for the 2.385-mile, 12-turn layout with a lap of 1 minute, 17.2709 seconds in the Firestone Fast Six on Brasil IT+ Pole Day.
He takes a six-point lead over Ryan Hunter-Reay in the championship chase into the 85-lap race Aug. 26.
“It is important to start up front here,” Power said. “I just really like this track and I would love to make it three in a row. The whole team has worked hard all year and we’ll just continue to push to win the championship. With the (modifications to the road course) expect a lot of passing. Hopefully not of me. I don’t want to let anyone by us.”
Hunter-Reay was the only driver of the top four in the standings not to qualify for the 10-minute shootout, missing out on bumping Dario Franchitti by 0.0169 of a second in Round 2. Hunter-Reay will start seventh.
Ryan Briscoe, who has three podium finishes in six races at Sonoma and has started in the top five the past five years, also will start on the front row after a best lap of 1:17.4347 in the No. 2 Hitachi Team Penske car. Team Penske swept the podium last year, with Helio Castroneves the race runner-up. He’ll start the 85-lap race from the outside of Row 2.
Sebastien Bourdais earned his second consecutive Firestone Fast Six appearance and will start a season-high third in the No. 7 TrueCar Dragon Racing entry. Target Chip Ganassi Racing teammates Scott Dixon and Franchitti will share Row 3.
Izod IndyCar Series
Sonoma Raceway – Sonoma, CA
GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma Qualifying – Aug. 25, 2012
1 12 Will Power 01:17.2709 111.116
2 2 Ryan Briscoe 01:17.4347 110.881
3 7 Sebastien Bourdais 01:17.7497 110.431
4 3 Helio Castroneves 01:18.1090 109.923
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6 10 Dario Franchitti 01:18.3462 109.591
7 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay 01:18.3355 109.605
8 98 Alex Tagliani 01:18.4168 109.492
9 77 Simon Pagenaud 01:18.4334 109.469
10 18 Justin Wilson 01:18.6258 109.201
11 27 James Hinchcliffe 01:18.7885 108.975
12 8 Rubens Barrichello 01:18.9788 108.713
13 17 Sebastian Saavedra 01:18.8918 108.833
14 26 Marco Andretti 01:18.8925 108.832
15 38 Graham Rahal 01:18.8981 108.824
16 14 Mike Conway 01:18.9048 108.815
17 4 JR Hildebrand 01:19.0931 108.556
18 11 Tony Kanaan 01:18.9475 108.756
19 5 E.J. Viso 01:19.3953 108.142
20 22 Oriol Servia 01:18.9672 108.729
21 6 Katherine Legge 01:19.6414 107.808
22 83 Charlie Kimball 01:19.0262 108.648
23 67 Josef Newgarden 01:19.7468 107.666
24 15 Takuma Sato 01:19.2821 108.297
25 78 Simona de Silvestro 01:20.2295 107.018
26 19 James Jakes 01:19.5152 107.979
27 20 Ed Carpenter 01:19.6837 107.751
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