Dario Franchitti, seen here from earlier this season, will start from the pole in Sunday’s Honda Indy Toronto at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Canada. Photo courtesy IndyCar/LAT USA
Dario Franchitti earned his first Indy car pole start on the streets of Toronto in 1997. He claimed No. 29 on the 1.75-mile, 11-turn Exhibition Place street circuit for the Honda Indy Toronto Saturday afternoon.
Franchitti posted a lap of 59.3510 seconds on the last of his five laps in the Firestone Fast Six to wrest the pole from Will Power, the 2011 pole sitter, in the final 20 seconds of the 10-minute session. Power, the IZOD IndyCar Series championship front-runner in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske car, was .0247 of a second back.
It’s the third consecutive race in which Franchitti, driving the No. 10 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car, will start from the pole.
“These Target boys have given us a really fast car all weekend,” said Franchitti. “They hve taken very good car of both Scott and I. The times have all been so close all weekend – we (are) happy to be at the top. The Firestone Reds have felt really good and we hit the rhythm and got really good grip during qualifying to get to the top. That was a really hard earned pole. Track position will be very important tomorrow and it is great be up front in Toronto again, the same place I won my first pole 15 years ago in 1997.”
Five different teams were represented in the Firestone Fast Six, and the six were separated by .2106 of a second.
Justin Wilson, who set an IZOD IndyCar Series track record of 59.0663 seconds in Round 2, will start third in the No. 18 Sonny’s BBQ car for Dale Coyne Racing. Sebastien Bourdais gave Dragon Racing its highest start of the season in fourth, while Scott Dixon, the 2011 race runner-up to Franchitti, was fifth.
IZOD IndyCar Series
Exhibition Place – Toronto, Canada
Honda Indy Toronto Qualifying – July 7, 2012
1 10 Dario Franchitti 59.3510 106.451
2 12 Will Power 59.3757 106.407
3 18 Justin Wilson 59.4506 106.273
4 7 Sebastien Bourdais 59.4721 106.235
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6 98 Alex Tagliani 59.5616 106.075
7 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay 59.4829 106.215
8 3 Helio Castroneves 59.5476 106.100
9 27 James Hinchcliffe 59.5958 106.014
10 77 Simon Pagenaud 59.6650 105.891
11 15 Takuma Sato 59.8197 105.617
12 38 Graham Rahal 59.8966 105.482
13 14 Mike Conway 01:00.0718 105.174
14 2 Ryan Briscoe 59.9888 105.320
15 83 Charlie Kimball 01:00.1557 105.027
16 22 Oriol Servia 01:00.0004 105.299
17 4 JR Hildebrand 01:00.4508 104.515
18 11 Tony Kanaan 01:00.1207 105.089
19 19 James Jakes 01:00.5440 104.354
20 8 Rubens Barrichello 01:00.2043 104.943
21 78 Simona de Silvestro 01:00.6709 104.136
22 67 Josef Newgarden 01:00.2199 104.915
23 20 Ed Carpenter Indianapolis 01:01.0333 103.517
24 26 Marco Andretti 01:00.6145 104.232
25 5 E.J. Viso Caracas 01:02.5280 101.043
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