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Long Beach Indy Lights: Carlos Munoz in control in qualifying

Carlos Munoz will start Sunday's Indy Lights race from pole position after a strong performance in qualifying at Long Beach

The top spot cycled through several drivers over the course of the afternoon before Munoz made it his own with a 1m12.9374s effort; the first lap to break the 1m13s mark this weekend.

Points leader Jack Hawksworth rebounded from a heavy crash in Friday practice to go second-quickest for Schmidt Peterson, albeit with a time 0.3950 seconds down on that set by Andretti driver Munoz.

Zach Veach and Peter Dempsey will share the second row, ahead of Gabby Chaves and Juan Pablo Garcia.

It was a tough afternoon for Sage Karam, who was forced to watch most of the session from pitlane after hitting the Turn 5 barriers before he had a chance to bank a lap.

The Schmidt team managed to get the car repaired and Karam returned to the track with three minutes on the clock, but did not have enough time to haul himself off the back of the grid.

Pos  Driver             Team              Time        Gap
 1.  Carlos Munoz       Andretti          1m12.9374s
 2.  Jack Hawksworth    Schmidt Peterson  1m13.3324s  + 0.3950s
 3.  Zach Veach         Andretti          1m13.3614s  + 0.4240s
 4.  Peter Dempsey      Belardi           1m13.3961s  + 0.4587s
 5.  Gabby Chaves       Schmidt Peterson  1m13.5298s  + 0.5924s
 6.  Juan Pablo Garcia  Moore             1m13.7280s  + 0.7906s
 7.  Mikael Grenier     Moore             1m13.8222s  + 0.8848s
 8.  Jorge Goncalvez    Belardi           1m14.4856s  + 1.5482s
 9.  Matthew di Leo     MDL/Dragffy       1m15.5059s  + 2.5685s
10.  Sage Karam         Schmidt Peterson  1m15.9610s  + 3.0236s

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