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Saturday, 18 June 2011 16:17 |
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Page 1 of 2  Dario Franchitti's 25th Indy car pole, tying Paul Tracy for ninth all time, could be the most direct path to retrieving some of the points he lost to IZOD IndyCar Series leader Will Power in last week's Firestone Twin 275s.
Franchitti, who earned one point for the PEAK Performance Pole Award by topping the 26 driver field with an average speed of 170.841 mph on the Milwaukee Mile oval, is 20 points arrears of Power heading into the Milwaukee 225. Power, who topped the speed chart in the initial practice session June 17, will start a season low 17th in the #12 Verizon Team Penske car.
"I am glad to be back at the Milwaukee Mile and this is a great place to start from for tomorrow's race," said Franchitti, who won the first IZOD IndyCar Series race at the historic track in 2004 by charging from the seventh starting position.
"It is going to be a tough day because it is like a one lane track out there with the marbles on side and the black asphalt lane. I think the double file restarts will work well here at the Milwaukee Mile and the fans are in for a hell of a show."
Power's team-mate, Helio Castroneves, will join Franchitti on the front row (169.999 mph) in the #3 Guidepoint Systems entry.
Scott Dixon, who won the 2009 race from the second row, will be on the inside of Row 2 (169.582) in the #9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car.
The KV Racing Technology-Lotus group of Tony Kanaan, Takuma Sato and E.J. Viso made waves, they will start in that order fourth through sixth.
This is the seventh IZOD IndyCar Series event at the Milwaukee Mile, Scott Dixon won the race in 2009 while Helio Castroneves holds the single lap qualifying record with a lap of 21.1854 seconds, 172.477 mph set in July 2006.
Past winners Ryan Briscoe (2008), Scott Dixon (2009), Tony Kanaan (2006-2007) and Dario Franchitti (2004) are entered in the event. Ryan Hunter-Reay has also won at Milwaukee, winning the Champ Car sanctioned race in 2004.
Drivers will have 20 total pushes of the Honda overtake assist, an ECU software alteration employed by Honda Performance Development, each lasting 11 seconds during the Milwaukee 225.
It is activated by the driver via a button on the steering wheel and provides an extra 200 RPM (about 10 horsepower) to the Honda Indy V8 engine. Parameters are updated before each race weekend to meet the circuit layout.
There is a 10 second recovery period between pushes. One overtake assist push is available for the final practice session.
Each entry for the Milwaukee 225 receives nine sets (36 total) of Firestone Firehawks for the race weekend, based on the same tire used here in 2009 and was refined for use after a tire test in 2010 at New Hampshire.
MILWAUKEE 225 QUALIFYING RESULTS:
| Pos. |
N° |
Driver |
Car |
Speed |
| 1. |
10 |
Dario Franchitti |
Dallara-Honda |
170.841 |
| 2. |
3 |
Helio Castroneves |
Dallara-Honda |
169.999 |
| 3. |
9 |
Scott Dixon |
Dallara-Honda |
169.582 |
| 4. |
82 |
Tony Kanaan |
Dallara-Honda |
169.365 |
| 5. |
5 |
Takuma Sato |
Dallara-Honda |
169.308 |
| 6. |
59 |
EJ Viso |
Dallara-Honda |
169.082 |
| 7. |
28 |
Ryan Hunter-Reay |
Dallara-Honda |
169.014 |
| 8. |
6 |
Ryan Briscoe |
Dallara-Honda |
168.598 |
| 9. |
26 |
Marco Andretti |
Dallara-Honda |
168.456 |
| 10. |
2 |
Oriol Servia |
Dallara-Honda |
168.320 |
| 11. |
24 |
Ana Beatriz |
Dallara-Honda |
167.863 |
| 12. |
38 |
Graham Rahal |
Dallara-Honda |
167.674 |
| 13. |
22 |
Justin Wilson |
Dallara-Honda |
167.621 |
| 14. |
19 |
Alex Lloyd |
Dallara-Honda |
167.162 |
| 15. |
7 |
Danica Patrick |
Dallara-Honda |
166.779 |
| 16. |
06 |
James Hinchcliffe |
Dallara-Honda |
166.558 |
| 17. |
12 |
Will Power |
Dallara-Honda |
166.248 |
| 18. |
4 |
JR Hildebrand |
Dallara-Honda |
166.070 |
| 19. |
77 |
Alex Tagliani |
Dallara-Honda |
166.031 |
| 20. |
27 |
Mike Conway |
Dallara-Honda |
166.003 |
| 21. |
83 |
Charlie Kimball |
Dallara-Honda |
165.592 |
| 22. |
14 |
Vitor Meira |
Dallara-Honda |
165.375 |
| 23. |
18 |
James Jakes |
Dallara-Honda |
164.814 |
| 24. |
34 |
Sebastian Saavedra |
Dallara-Honda |
164.440 |
| 25. |
67 |
Ed Carpenter |
Dallara-Honda |
163.304 |
| 26. |
78 |
Simona de Silvestro |
Dallara-Honda |
no speed |
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