Power Pulls Out Pole For IndyCar Baltimore Grand Prix

Will Power tears around the 12-turn Baltimore street course en route to winning the pole for Sunday's Baltimore Grand Prix. Photo by Shawn Gritzmacher/Courtesy IndyCar

Graham Rahal was the provisional pole sitter for the inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix with 3 minutes, 30 seconds left in the Firestone Fast Six. That was too much time left in the qualifying session for Will Power.

Power, who was 0.0081 of a second behind at the time, recorded the quickest lap of 1 minute, 20.2447 seconds on his fifth and final lap of the 10-minute session to earn his seventh PEAK Performance Pole Award of the season and 23rd of his Indy car career (tying Johnny Rutherford on the all-time list).

“The final run was absolutely everything I had in me and it was exhausting,” said Power, who is 25 points behind championship front-runner Dario Franchitti entering the 75-lap race Sept. 4. “I think that securing the pole position is an advantage here because you don’t have to worry about trying to pass, and since it is a street circuit there can be a lot of yellows.

“We are going to try to lead as many laps as we can and gain the points we need for the championship. We have to keep chipping away at it.”

Still, Rahal will make his highest start of the season in the No. 38 Service Central Chip Ganassi Racing car and highest since Milwaukee in June 2009.

Ryan Briscoe and Franchitti will share Row 2, while Sebastien Bourdais and Ryan Hunter-Reay will be on the third row. It was Bourdais’ and Dale Coyne Racing’s first visit to the Firestone Fast  this season.

The top six were separated by 0.7648 of a second on the 2-mile, 12-turn course.

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Baltimore Street Course – Baltimore, MD
Baltimore Grand Prix Qualifying – Sept. 3, 2011

Pos No. Driver Car Time Speed(mph)
1 12 Will Power Dallara Honda 1:20.2447 91.520
2 38 Graham Rahal Dallara Honda 1:20.3238 91.430
3 6 Ryan Briscoe Dallara Honda 1:20.7023 91.001
4 10 Dario Franchitti Dallara Honda 1:20.7118 90.990
5 19 Sebastien Bourdais Dallara Honda 1:20.9725 90.697
6 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay Dallara Honda 1:21.0095 90.656
7 3 Helio Castroneves Dallara Honda 1:20.8503 90.835
8 27 Mike Conway Dallara Honda 1:20.9078 90.770
9 59 E.J. Viso Dallara Honda 1:20.9416 90.732
10 9 Scott Dixon Dallara Honda 1:21.0617 90.598
11 82 Tony Kanaan Dallara Honda 1:21.3764 90.247
12 78 Simona de Silvestro Dallara Honda 1:21.7382 89.848
13 18 James Jakes Dallara Honda 1:21.6046 89.995
14 14 Vitor Meira Dallara Honda 1:21.9707 89.593
15 22 Giorgio Pantano Dallara Honda 1:21.6857 89.906
16 2 Oriol Servia Dallara Honda 1:21.9856 89.577
17 06 James Hinchcliffe Dallara Honda 1:21.7882 89.793
18 83 Charlie Kimball Dallara Honda 1:22.3963 89.130
19 4 J.R. Hildebrand Dallara Honda 1:22.0232 89.536
20 17 Martin Plowman Dallara Honda 1:22.5638 88.949
21 77 Alex Tagliani Dallara Honda 1:22.1596 89.387
22 24 Ana Beatriz Dallara Honda 1:22.9070 88.581
23 26 Marco Andretti Dallara Honda 1:22.8926 88.597
24 07 Tomas Scheckter Dallara Honda 1:22.9769 88.507
25 7 Danica Patrick Dallara Honda 1:23.0159 88.465
26 34 Sebastian Saavedra Dallara Honda 1:23.4736 87.980
27 67 Ed Carpenter Dallara Honda 1:24.5361 86.874
28 5 Takuma Sato Dallara Honda 1:27.4618 86.082

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