Will Power topped qualifying to take the pole for Sunday’s IndyCar Grand Prix of Baltimore. Photo courtesy of IndyCar/LAT USA
IZOD IndyCar Series championship points leader Will Power earned the pole for the Grand Prix of Baltimore for the second consecutive year, and with the bonus point takes a 37-point lead over Ryan Hunter-Reay into the penultimate race of the season.
Power, driving the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske car, posted a series track-qualifying record lap of 1 minute, 17.5921 seconds on the 2.04-mile, 13-turn temporary street circuit in the second of three rounds. He topped the Firestone Fast Six shootout with a lap of 1:17.9750.
Hunter-Reay, driving the No. 28 Team DHL/Sun Drop Citrus Soda car for Andretti Autosport, qualified 13th. He was seventh on the time sheet when a red flag for a contact ended the 15-minute first-round session early, and only the top six advance to the next round.
“Starting from the pole it is a lot easier to control your own destiny,” said Power, who claimed his fifth pole of the season. “We’ll focus on the job at hand and think about this race and doing the best we can – the best I can and the best that the team can. Over the last few weeks we’ve done what we needed to do and we want to continue.
“This track is physical, but it is the same for everyone. It’s going to be a good show for the Baltimore fans and we’ll be plenty busy in the cars. We’ll be looking forward not back, that’s for sure.”
Mike Conway qualified a season-high second in the No. 14 ABC Supply car for A.J. Foyt Racing, but he’ll incur a 10-grid spot penalty for an unapproved Honda engine change. Scott Dixon, who will make his 200th Indy car start, qualified third in the No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car and Sebastien Bourdais advanced to the Firestone Fast Six for the second consecutive race and qualified fourth in the No. 7 TrueCar Dragon Racing car.
Four-time IZOD IndyCar Series champion Dario Franchitti, driving the No. 10 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car, and James Hinchcliffe in the No. 27 Team GoDaddy.com car also reached the Firestone Fast Six.
Izod IndyCar Series
Baltimore Street Circuit – Baltimore, MD
Grand Prix of Baltimore Qualifying – Sept. 1, 2012
1 12 Will Power 01:17.9750 94.184
2 14 Mike Conway 01:18.5509 93.494
3 9 Scott Dixon 01:18.6017 93.433
4 7 Sebastien Bourdais 01:18.8500 93.139
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6 27 James Hinchcliffe 01:19.3101 92.599
7 83 Charlie Kimball 01:19.3347 92.570
8 11 Tony Kanaan 01:19.6788 92.170
9 18 Justin Wilson 01:20.3559 91.393
10 67 Bruno Junqueira 01:20.3826 91.363
11 20 Ed Carpenter 01:20.4968 91.233
12 77 Simon Pagenaud No Time No Speed
13 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay 01:21.7113 89.877
14 2 Ryan Briscoe 01:18.8872 93.095
15 98 Alex Tagliani 01:22.2657 89.272
16 3 Helio Castroneves 01:18.9533 93.017
17 8 Rubens Barrichello 01:22.7851 88.712
18 22 Oriol Servia 01:19.3365 92.568
19 15 Takuma Sato 01:24.5395 86.871
20 26 Marco Andretti 01:19.4192 92.471
21 78 Simona de Silvestro 01:27.2226 84.198
22 19 James Jakes 01:19.5496 92.320
23 38 Graham Rahal No Time No Speed
24 5 E.J. Viso 01:19.8631 91.957
25 4 JR Hildebrand No Time No Speed
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