Ryan Hunter-Reay topped the field in qualifying for Sunday’s IndyCar race at Sao Paulo. Photo by Chris Jones
Ryan Hunter-Reay earned his second Verizon P1 Award of 2013 by setting a track-record lap of 1 minute, 20.4312 seconds in the Firestone Fast Six for the fourth Itaipava Sao Paulo Indy 300 presented by Nestle.
“I gave it everything I had and it’s great to get the DHL Chevrolet up front again and on pole,” said Hunter-Reay, the reigning IZOD IndyCar Series champion who has a pair of runner-up finishes on the 2.536-mile, 11-turn temporary street circuit. “That’s three of the four races this year that we’ve been on the front row and twice on pole. I’m so happy for the guys and everything they’ve done for me.
“Starting on pole here is a challenge because you are a sitting duck out front on the long straights.”
Andretti Autosport teammate E.J. Viso will start a career-high second. Dario Franchitti, the pole winner in the inaugural Brazil race, will start third and Tony Kanaan will start a season-high fourth in his home race.
James Hinchcliffe and Scott Dixon will share Row 3 for the 75-lap race on Sunday.
Will Power, who has won all three races on the temporary street circuit in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske car and paced the 25-car field in the two practice sessions preceding qualifications, will start 22nd. Power had started from the pole in the previous two races in Sao Paulo and qualified fifth in 2010.
He recorded two laps in Group 2 of the first 10-minute session before action was halted because of a red flag with about 3:30 left for an incident involving the No. 16 Acorn Stairlifts car for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing driven by James Jakes. Time expired in the session before cars could return to the track.
Team Penske teammate and IZOD IndyCar Series points leader Helio Castroneves will start 18th after a similar fate.
Josef Newgarden, who was 17th overall through the morning practice sessions, did not make a qualifying attempt because the Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing team was changing the Honda engine in the No. 67 entry. He will start 25th.
Izod IndyCar Series
Streets of Sao Paulo – Sao Paulo, Brazil
Itaipava Sao Paulo Indy 300 Qualifying – May 4, 2013
1 1 Ryan Hunter-Reay 01:20.4312 113.508
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3 10 Dario Franchitti 01:20.8922 112.861
4 11 Tony Kanaan Salvador 01:20.9812 112.737
5 27 James Hinchcliffe 01:20.9893 112.726
6 9 Scott Dixon 01:21.1183 112.547
7 7 Sebastien Bourdais 01:20.8210 112.961
8 78 Simona de Silvestro 01:20.9390 112.796
9 19 Justin Wilson 01:21.0570 112.632
10 25 Marco Andretti 01:21.1716 112.473
11 4 JR Hildebrand 01:21.2961 112.301
12 14 Takuma Sato 01:21.3618 112.210
13 22 Oriol Servia 01:21.7963 111.614
14 20 Ed Carpenter 01:24.0203 108.659
15 98 Alex Tagliani 01:21.8636 111.522
16 18 Ana Beatriz 01:24.8864 107.551
17 83 Charlie Kimball 01:22.2482 111.001
18 3 Helio Castroneves 01:25.1734 107.188
19 15 Graham Rahal 01:22.2998 110.931
20 6 Sebastian Saavedra 04:00.2612 37.999
21 55 Tristan Vautier 03:20.5417 45.525
22 12 Will Power 04:05.5886 37.174
23 67 Josef Newgarden No Time No Speed
24 77 Simon Pagenaud 04:23.1097 34.699
25 16 James Jakes No Time No Speed
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