Ed Carpenter has created quite a surprise by earning pole position for next weekend's Indianapolis 500 ahead of three Andretti Autosport’s drivers who took second, third and fourth spot.
Carpenter was able to get to speed and clocked a sequence of four laps at 229.347mph, 228.976mph, 228.774mph and 227.955mph to finish up with an average of 228.762mph. Andretti Autosport rookie Carlos Munoz took second with an average speed of 228.342mph. His team-mate Marco Andretti completes the front row. Another member of the Andretti squad, EJ Viso was fourth in front of both Team Penske drivers AJ Allmendinger and Will Power. Current IndyCar champion Ryan Hunter-Reay qualified seventh followed by Helio Castroneves (Penske) and James Hinchcliffe, the last driver to compete in the Fast Nine shootout. Qualifying results – Indy 500 (IndyCar) 1.Ed Carpenter (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Carpenter - 228.762 mph (368.156 kmh) 2.Carlos Munoz (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Andretti - 228.342 3.Marco Andretti (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Andretti - 228.261 4.Ernesto Viso (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Andretti - 228.150 5.AJ Allmendinger (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Penske - 228.099 6.Will Power (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Penske - 228.087 7.Ryan Hunter-Reay (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Andretti - 227.904 8.Helio Castroneves (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Penske - 227.762 9.James Hinchcliffe (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Andretti - 227.070 10.JR Hildebrand (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Panther - 227.441 11.Alex Tagliani (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Herta - 227.386 12.Tony Kanaan (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - KV - 226.949 13.Oriol Servia (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Panther DRR - 226.814 14.Justin Wilson (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Coyne - 226.370 15.Sebastien Bourdais (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Dragon - 226.196 16.Scott Dixon (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Ganassi - 226.158 17.Dario Franchitti (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Ganassi - 226.069 18.Takuma Sato (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Foyt - 225.892 19.Charlie Kimball (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Ganassi - 225.880 20.James Jakes (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Rahal - 225.809 21.Simon Pagenaud (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Schmidt - 225.674 22.Townsend Bell (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Panther - 225.643 23.Ryan Briscoe (Dallara DW12-Honda) - 225.265 24.Simona de Silvestro (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - KV - 225226
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