Indycar – Power on track in Baltimore

Will Power took pole on the Baltimore street circuit and will have a good opportunity to increase his lead in this penultimate event of the Championship. Sébastien Bourdais will start from fourth row.

Published on 01/09/2012 à 22:05

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Will Power (Team Penske) will start on pole tomorrow in Baltimore after setting a time of 1'17"9750 while his direct rivals Ryan Hunter-Reay (Andretti Autosport) and Helio Castroneves (Team Penske) will only start from 13th and 16th rows respectively. The Championship leader put in a solid performance as Mike conway (AJ Foyt Entreprises) fails more than five tenths behind the poleman even though he completes the first row. Scott Dixon (Chip Ganassi Racing) will share the second row with Sébastien Bourdais (Dragon Racing) who will be keen to recover after his disappointment at Sonoma where he had contact with Josef Newgarden (Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing) while he was fighting for a third place.

Dario Franchitti (Chip Ganassi Racing) completes the top five ahead of James Hinchcliffe (Andretti Autosport). Charlie Kimball (Chip Ganassi Racing) took seventh place ahead of Tony Kanaan (KV Racing Technology). simon pagenaud (Schmidt-Hamilton Motorsports) failed in the second round of qualifying by hitting the wall and breaking the right suspension of his DW12. The Frenchman will start from 12th position.