After dominating most of the earlier practice sessions, Team Penske's Will Power earned the IndyCar season opener's pole position, in St Petersburg which makes it the 30th of his career.
The achievement is Power's 30th career pole, and fourth consecutive in St Petersburg. Takuma Sato (AJ Foyt Racing) will start alongside him, having lapped second fastest, while KV Racing's Simona de Silvestro maintained her weekend's pace ending up in third. Canadian James Hinchcliffe (Andretti) had a close battle with Helio Castroneves (Penske) untill the end and eventually beat the Brazilian to fourth place on the grid. Newcomer Tristan Vautier completed the top six for Sam Schmidt Motorsport; once again showing his potential. Qualifying results – St Petersburg (IndyCar) 1.Will Power (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Penske - 1'01"2070 2.Takuma Sato (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Foyt - 1'01"5776 3.Simona De Silvestro (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - KV - 1'01"7670 4.James Hinchcliffe (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Andretti - 1'01"8229 5.Helio Castroneves (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Penske - 1'01"8991 6.Tristan Vautier (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Schmidt - 1'02"0645 7.Marco Andretti (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Andretti - 1'01"6883 8.Ryan Hunter-Reay (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Andretti - 1'01"7339 9.Sebastian Saavedra (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Dragon - 1'01"7944 10.Dario Franchitti (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Ganassi - 1'01"8150 11.Tony Kanaan (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - KV - 1'01"9139 12.Oriol Servia (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Panther DRR - 1'02"1483 13.Justin Wilson (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Coyne - 1'02"1777 14.Charlie Kimball (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Ganassi - 1'02"1198 15.Graham Rahal (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Rahal - 1'02"2709 16.Josef Newgarden (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Fisher - 1'02"1592 17.Alex Tagliani (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Herta - 1'02"3328 18.James Jakes (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Rahal - 1'02"1658 19.Simon Pagenaud (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Schmidt - 1'02"4736 20.Scott Dixon (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Ganassi - 1'02"1715 21.Sebastien Bourdais (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Dragon - 1'02"6537 22.Ernesto Viso (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Andretti - 1'02"1986 23.Ed Carpenter (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Carpenter - 1'02"6634 24.JR Hildebrand (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Panther - 1'02"3179 25.Ana Beatriz (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Coyne - 1'03"2551
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