Will Power topped the scoring pylon in qualifying for Sunday’s Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg to open the 2013 Izod IndyCar Series. Photo by Chris Jones / Courtesy IndyCar Media
Will Power earned his fourth consecutive pole for the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg — and the inaugural Verizon P1 Award.
Power posted a best lap of 1 minute, 1.2070 seconds in the 10-minute Firestone Fast Six session that culminated the three rounds of knockout qualifications for the IZOD IndyCar Series race on the 1.8-mile, 14-turn street circuit. It bested his 2012 pole lap (1:01.3727).
“I thought it was going to be very tight,” said Power. “It’s very tight on new tires but we made a few changes for the last run and it was good to see some new people up there. Like Simona, that’s very cool, but I always knew, everyone always knew she was quick. Sato, we all know he’s fast, so that’s what you would expect.”
Power said he thinks a lot of Sunday’s race will hinge on the weather.
“It depends on how the weather is, and it’s a pretty straightforward race. It’s great for us, if not, it’s just going to be one of the typical mixed-up IndyCar races where no one knows who’s going to win. We just have to be smart and keep heading towards what we’ve wanted for a long time, which is a championship.”
While that might have been expected, the Firestone Fast Six lineup and the remainder of how the starting order for the season opener shook out was a bit surprising.
• Takuma Sato, competing for his third team in the past three seasons and making his 50th series start, will start on the front row for the first time since Edmonton in 2011. Driving the Honda-powered No. 14 ABC Supply car for A.J. Foyt Racing, he tied Mike Conway (Baltimore 2012) for the team’s best qualifying effort in many years.
• Simona de Silvestro, entering her fourth IZOD IndyCar Series season and making her first start for KV Racing Technology and with Chevrolet power, qualified for her first Firestone Fast Six and will start on the inside of Row 2. It’s a career best (previous best of seventh in 2010 at Edmonton).
• Tristan Vautier, the 2012 Firestone Indy Lights champion, kicking off his IZOD IndyCar Series career with a Firestone Fast Six appearance and starting sixth in the No. 55 Schmidt Peterson Motorsports car. He won the Firestone Indy Lights and Star Mazda races at St. Petersburg in the past two years.
Five different teams are represented on the first three rows of the grid for the 110-lap race, which will air beginning at noon ET on the NBC Sports Network.
Izod IndyCar Series
Streets of St. Petersburg – St. Petersburg, FL
Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Qualifying – March 23, 2013
1. 12 Will Power 01:01.2070
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4. 27 James Hinchcliffe 01:01.8229
5. 3 Helio Castroneves 01:01.8991
6. 55 Tristan Vautier 01:02.0645
7. 25 Marco Andretti 01:01.6883
8. 1 Ryan Hunter-Reay 01:01.7339
9. 6 Sebastian Saavedra 01:01.7944
10. 10 Dario Franchitti 01:01.8150
11. 11 Tony Kanaan 01:01.9139
12. 22 Oriol Servia 01:02.1483
13. 19 Justin Wilson 01:02.1777
14. 83 Charlie Kimball 01:02.1198
15. 15 Graham Rahal 01:02.2709
16. 67 Josef Newgarden 01:02.1592
17. 98 Alex Tagliani 01:02.3328
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19. 77 Simon Pagenaud 01:02.4736
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