Will Power heads out to qualify for Saturday’s Firestone 550 at Texas Motor Speedway. Power captured the pole with a lap at 219.182 mph. Photo by John Cote
Will Power earned his 31st career Indy car pole, tying Dario Franchitti and Sebastien Bourdais for seventh all-time, in qualifications for the June 8 Firestone 550 at Texas Motor Speedway.
Power, driving the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske car, recorded a two-lap average speed of 219.182 mph on the 1.5-mile, high-banked oval to claim the Verizon P1 Award. It was more than 3.5 mph faster than Alex Tagliani’s 2012 pole-winning speed in the first year of the new chassis-engine package.
“The race car has been pretty good,” said Power, who’s among five drivers to start from the pole in eight races. “We were wide open, trimmed out enough, the gears were right. Last year we thought we should have been on the pole but we got it right this time. It’s going to be an interesting race.”
Power started fifth and finish eighth in the 228-lap race last June. There have been 18 race winners in the 24 IZOD IndyCar Series races at Texas Motor Speedway dating to 1997, and there hasn’t been a back-to-back winner in the past seven years.
Marco Andretti, who’s tied with Helio Castroneves atop the championship standings, earned his best start in nine races at Texas Motor Speedway with a two-lap average of 217.553 mph for second in the No. 25 RC Cola car for Andretti Autosport.
Reigning series champion Ryan Hunter-Reay (217.524) and Franchitti (217.504) will share Row 2. E.J. Viso (217.244) and Castroneves (217.100) will share Row 3.
Izod IndyCar Series
Texas Motor Speedway – Ft. Worth, TX
Firestone 550 Qualifying – June 7, 2013
1. 12 Will Power 00:47.7960 219.182
2. 25 Marco Andretti 00:48.1537 217.553
3. 1 Ryan Hunter-Reay 00:48.1603 217.524
4. 10 Dario Franchitti 00:48.1646 217.504
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6. 3 Helio Castroneves 00:48.2542 217.100
7. 67 Josef Newgarden 00:48.3449 216.693
8. 83 Charlie Kimball 00:48.3724 216.570
9. 20 Ed Carpenter 00:48.3763 216.552
10. 16 James Jakes 00:48.3908 216.487
11. 9 Scott Dixon 00:48.3998 216.447
12. 78 Simona De Silvestro 00:48.4112 216.396
13. 27 James Hinchcliffe 00:48.4444 216.248
14. 77 Simon Pagenaud 00:48.5613 215.727
15. 11 Tony Kanaan 00:48.6184 215.474
16. 98 Alex Tagliani 00:48.6337 215.406
17. 7 Sebastien Bourdais 00:48.7621 214.839
18. 4 Oriol Servia 00:48.8197 214.586
19. 15 Graham Rahal 00:48.9790 213.888
20. 6 Sebastian Saavedra 00:49.1330 213.217
21. 18 Pippa Mann 00:49.2329 212.785
22. 19 Justin Wilson 00:50.4121 207.807
23. 14 Takuma Sato No Time No Speed
24. 55 Tristan Vautier No Time No Speed
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