Will Power drove to the pole for Sunday’s Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg for the
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Will Power, the qualifying master of both the NTT IndyCar Series and on the streets of St. Petersburg, reigned again Saturday, winning the NTT P1 Award for pole position in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Power posted a top lap of 1 minute, 1.0369 seconds in the No. 12 Team Penske Chevrolet in the Firestone Fast Six of qualifying for Sunday’s Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.
“I thought we had worse tires than the other guys, but I just absolutely nailed it, man,” Power said. “Really, really good lap. I had to work the wheel hard for that one. I’m so stoked to get the Verizon car on pole again. Hopefully we can get Chevy in Victory Lane tomorrow. That would be fantastic.”
Power’s pole run extended a long list of accolades. It was his ninth career pole at St. Petersburg in 12 qualifying attempts, and it was Team Penske’s 10th pole position at St. Pete, with all but one coming from Power.
Power scored his fifth pole of the season and his second consecutive after starting first in the IndyCar Harvest GP Race 2 on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course October 3. Power also made one step closer to history by scoring his 62nd career pole. He now sits just five behind the all-time IndyCar record of 67, set by the legendary Mario Andretti.
“I’m able always to take it to another level, and I can only do it once a weekend, I reckon,” Power said. “It’s something I love. I just absolutely love getting the most out of something and perfecting a craft I’ve been working at for 25 years.”
Joining Power on the front row will be Alexander Rossi, who continued Andretti Autosport’s strong day and posted a best lap of 1:01.1730. Rossi has four consecutive top-10 starts to close the season as he also looks to end the year with four consecutive podium finishes.
Colton Herta, who was fastest in practice, qualified third at 1:01.1815. Fellow Andretti driver James Hinchcliffe qualified fourth at 1:01.3626, and Jack Harvey, who drives for Meyer Shank Racing with an Andretti technical alliance, qualified fifth at 1:01.3675.
The two athletes competing for the Astor Challenge Cup were noticeably missing from the Firestone Fast Six.
Defending series champion Josef Newgarden failed to make it out of Round 2 and qualified eighth with a time of 1:00.8676.
“We took a swing at it for Q2, and it wasn’t the right direction,” Newgarden said. “I didn’t get the most out of it. I definitely had a lot of slides and wasn’t clean. I think just putting a clean lap together would have been good to transfer, and we just didn’t do the job. It makes our program a little harder for tomorrow, but we’ve still got to go for the win with the Hitachi Chevy boys. Yeah, we can we from there. We just made it a little harder.”
Meanwhile, points leader Scott Dixon will be forced to play defense in tomorrow’s 100-lap race after posting the second-to-last time in Round 2 of qualifying. Dixon will start 11th after posting a time of 1:01.0283. He must finish ninth or better to clinch his sixth series title.
Dixon continued a trend of tough qualifying results as of late. Five-time series champion Dixon qualified 12th and 15th, respectively, in the IndyCar Harvest GP presented by GMR doubleheader earlier this month on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.
“It was a little bit strange,” Dixon said. “Our first qualifying session, the car felt really good. Just didn’t really piece it together very well. Then we kind of flip-flopped on how we did it. The first run we did three (laps) on black and then four (laps) on red. And we thought the reds came in quick enough. But right then, with how the traffic was and having to slow down, it was really only two laps. Each corner I was making, the car was getting more grip. But I just needed another lap. It is what it is. Our mistake.”
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Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg – October 24, 2020
Saturday’s Qualifying Results
1. Will Power
2. Alexander Rossi
3. Colton Herta
4. James Hinchcliffe
5. Jack Harvey
6. Pato O’Ward
7. Sebastien Bourdais
8. Josef Newgarden
9. Rinus VeeKay
10. Oliver Askew
11. Scott Dixon
12. Simon Pagenaud
13. Takuma Sato
14. Conor Daly
15. Marcus Ericsson
16. Alex Palou
17. Graham Rahal
18. Santio Ferrucci
19. Ryan Hunter-Reay
20. Charlie Kimball
21. Scott McLaughlin
22. Felix Rosenqvist
23. Marco Andretti
24. Max Chilton
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