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Source - Indy Racing League / F1SA
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Sunday, 25 July 2010 09:39 |
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Page 1 of 2   Will Power earned his sixth PEAK Performance Pole Award of the season, the fifth on road/street courses, slipping past Team Penske team-mate Helio Castroneves by 0.0765 of a second in the Firestone Fast Six session on the 1.973 mile, 14 turn City Centre Airport course, for the Honda Indy Edmonton.
Scott Dixon, the 2008 race winner, in the #9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car had a best lap of 1'01.2395 in the Firestone Fast Six and will start next to team-mate Dario Franchitti (1'01.2481) on Row 2.
Team Penske's Ryan Briscoe (1'01.3799) and E.J. Viso, making his first appearance in the Firestone Fast Six this season in the #8 PDVSA KV Racing Technology car (1'01.6122), will be on the third row.
Rookie Simona de Silvestro will start a season high seventh in the #78 Team Stargate Worlds/HVM Racing car, and Andretti Autosport's Ryan Hunter-Reay also will be on Row 4 in the #37 IZOD entry.
Also on July 24, James Hinchcliffe earned the pole for the Edmonton 100, edging championship points leader J.K. Vernay late in the qualifying session.
Hinchcliffe, the driver of the #2 TMR-Xtreme Coil Drilling car, recorded a best lap of 1 minute, 6.2159 seconds. It's the fourth time this season that Hinchcliffe will start on the pole and fifth time on the front row.
Martin Plowman (1'06.2707) in the #27 Automatic Fire Sprinklers/KEP Printing car for AFS Racing Andretti Autosport will join team-mate Charlie Kimball (1'06.3802), driving the #26 Levemir FlexPen entry, on Row 2.
The chief mechanics for Team Penske's #3 and #6 cars are not in Edmonton this weekend due to injuries sustained away from the track.
Sean Hanrahan, chief mechanic for #3 Helio Castroneves is not at Edmonton after surgery for a hernia this week.
Rick Rinaman, who served as chief mechanic on the car prior to this season, is filling in as chief mechanic and as outside front tire changer on the car. Hanrahan is expected to return to chief mechanic duties at Mid Ohio.
Matt Jonsson, chief mechanic for #6 Ryan Briscoe, remains out of action with a broken right ankle. Jonsson, who served as chief mechanic at Toronto, is not in Edmonton.
John Stanchina, who was the outside front tire changer on the car last week in Toronto, will return as chief mechanic and outside front tire changer on the car. Jonsson is expected to return to chief mechanic duties at Mid-Ohio.
PEAK PERFORMANCE POLE QUALIFYING RESULTS:
| Pos. |
N° |
Driver |
Car |
Time |
Speed |
| 1 |
12 |
Will Power |
Dallara-Honda |
1'00.7126 |
116.991 |
| 2 |
3 |
Helio Castroneves |
Dallara-Honda |
1'00.7891 |
116.843 |
| 3 |
9 |
Scott Dixon |
Dallara-Honda |
1'01.2395 |
115.984 |
| 4 |
10 |
Dario Franchitti |
Dallara-Honda |
1'01.2481 |
115.968 |
| 5 |
6 |
Ryan Briscoe |
Dallara-Honda |
1'01.3799 |
115.719 |
| 6 |
8 |
EJ Viso |
Dallara-Honda |
1'01.6122 |
115.282 |
| 7 |
78 |
Simona de Silvestro |
Dallara-Honda |
1'01.5438 |
115.410 |
| 8 |
37 |
Ryan Hunter-Reay |
Dallara-Honda |
1'01.5596 |
115.381 |
| 9 |
22 |
Justin Wilson |
Dallara-Honda |
1'01.5887 |
115.326 |
| 10 |
2 |
Raphael Matos |
Dallara-Honda |
1'01.7015 |
115.116 |
| 11 |
06 |
Hideki Mutoh |
Dallara-Honda |
1'02.1935 |
114.205 |
| 12 |
24 |
Tomas Scheckter |
Dallara-Honda |
1'02.8751 |
112.967 |
| 13 |
5 |
Takuma Sato |
Dallara-Honda |
1'01.9181 |
114.713 |
| 14 |
32 |
Mario Moraes |
Dallara-Honda |
1'02.1324 |
114.317 |
| 15 |
15 |
Paul Tracy |
Dallara-Honda |
1'02.3264 |
113.961 |
| 16 |
26 |
Marco Andretti |
Dallara-Honda |
1'02.1465 |
114.291 |
| 17 |
34 |
Mario Romancini |
Dallara-Honda |
1'02.4191 |
113.792 |
| 18 |
19 |
Alex Lloyd |
Dallara-Honda |
1'02.2203 |
114.156 |
| 19 |
77 |
Alex Tagliani |
Dallara-Honda |
1'02.5240 |
113.601 |
| 20 |
36 |
Bertrand Baguette |
Dallara-Honda |
1'02.5193 |
113.610 |
| 21 |
7 |
Danica Patrick |
Dallara-Honda |
1'02.5795 |
113.500 |
| 22 |
4 |
Dan Wheldon |
Dallara-Honda |
1'02.7397 |
113.211 |
| 23 |
14 |
Vitor Meira |
Dallara-Honda |
1'02.7511 |
113.190 |
| 24 |
11 |
Tony Kanaan |
Dallara-Honda |
No time |
No speed |
| 25 |
18 |
Milka Duno |
Dallara-Honda |
No time |
No speed |
PEAK PERFORMANCE POLE QUALIFYING NOTES:
· Will Power won the pole for the Honda Indy Edmonton, his sixth pole of the season. He also won the pole at Edmonton in 2009.
· This is Power's fourth consecutive front row start.
· Helio Castroneves will start second. Castroneves has started no worse than third in three starts at Edmonton.
· Scott Dixon will start third, his 43rd consecutive top 10 start, further extending the series record.
· Dario Franchitti will start fourth, his seventh consecutive top five start of the season.
· Ryan Briscoe will start fifth, his sixth top five start of the season.
· E.J. Viso will start sixth, his best start of the season. His previous best start in 2010 was ninth at St. Petersburg. This is the first time that Viso has qualified for the Firestone Fast Six in 2010.
· Simona De Silvestro will start seventh, her best start of the season. De Silvestro missed the Firestone Fast Six by .146 of a second. Her previous best start was 11th at Sao Paulo.
· Raphael Matos will start 8th, his best starting position of the season. His previous best was 11th at both Watkins Glen and Toronto.
· Tomas Scheckter will start 12th, his best qualifying effort of the 2012 season.
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