Ryan Hunter-Reay powered his way to the pole for Sunday’s Honda Grand Prix of Alabama at Barber Motorsports Park. Photo by Bret Kelley / Courtesy IndyCar Media
Ryan Hunter-Reay earned his first Verizon P1 Award of the 2013 season by capturing the pole position for the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama on April 7.
The reigning IZOD IndyCar Series champion recorded a lap of 1:07.0871 in the No. 1 DHL Chevrolet to earn his third pole of his Indy car career.
“This team has done so well this weekend, we just kept progressing and we knew where we needed to work on it,” said Hunter-Reay. “I really went to work on my driving as well, and we all did it together here. It’s a great position to start from and now we need to go make it work in warm up and for the race, making these Firestones hang in there for an entire race. That’ll be the challenging part.”
Will Power, the race winner the past two years, will join Hunter-Reay on the front row.
Hunter-Reay’s pole was just part of the story in a dramatic qualifying session on the 2.3-mile road course that saw Scott Dixon blitz the track record by more than 3 seconds in the first of the three rounds.
Takuma Sato, who appeared to qualify for Firestone Fast Six for the second consecutive race, was penalized for interference in Round 2 and was credited with qualifying 12th (a drop of at least six positions). Rookie Tristan Vautier was called back to pit lane to participate in the 10-minute session and qualified a career-best third.
Charlie Kimball advanced to the Firestone Fast Six for the first time and posted his career-best starting position of fifth, while AJ Allmendinger qualified 10th in his IZOD IndyCar Series debut.
Izod IndyCar Series
Barber Motorsports Park – Birmingham, AL
Honda Grand Prix of Alabama Qualifying – April 6, 2013
1. Ryan Hunter-Reay
2. Will Power
3. Tristan Vautier
4. Scott Dixon
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6. Helio Castroneves
7. Marco Andretti
8. Justin Wilson
9. Sebastian Saavedra
10. A.J. Allmendinger
11. James Jakes
12. Takuma Sato
13. Simon Pagenaud
14. Simona de Silvestro
15. Alex Tagliani
16. E.J. Viso
17. Dario Franchitti
18. Oriol Servia
19. Tony Kanaan
20. James Hinchcliffe
21. Graham Rahal
22. Josef Newgarden
23. Sebastien Bourdais
24. J.R. Hildebrand
25. Ana Beatriz
26. Ed Carpenter
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