Milwaukee IndyCar: Marco Andretti claims pole
Marco Andretti underlined his pace during practice by claiming pole for Saturday's IndyCar race at Milwaukee
Andretti, who topped both the Friday practice sessions, eclipsed the track's previous qualifying speed record with his two-lap average of 170.515mph.
Team-mate James Hinchcliffe, who Andretti bumped from the top spot, also beat the old record with his 170.418mph effort.
"We rolled off pretty good," Andretti said. "I knew I was going to have to go flat in Turns 1 and 2 in both laps, and I was able to pull it off."
Hinchcliffe's time had been the benchmark for most of the session. The Canadian was the fifth driver to set a time, and it proved good enough to see off most of the field before Andretti came out.
Aside from Helio Castroneves, who was the first car to run in the session, the only other driver to briefly occupy provisional pole was Takuma Sato, who made his run immediately before Hinchcliffe.
For a while, it looked like Andretti Autosport might secure the entire two front rows before Penske's Will Power intervened to go third-fastest, putting himself ahead of Ryan Hunter-Reay and EJ Viso.
Sebastian Saavedra did a great job to finish up sixth-fastest ahead of Indianapolis 500 winner Tony Kanaan, while Josef Newgarden took the honours for quickest Honda-powered driver and will start from eighth.
Pos Driver Team/Engine Speed 1. Marco Andretti Andretti/Chevy 170.515 2. James Hinchcliffe Andretti/Chevy 170.418 3. Will Power Penske/Chevy 170.212 4. Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti/Chevy 170.100 5. EJ Viso Andretti/Chevy 169.828 6. Sebastian Saavedra Dragon/Chevy 169.732 7. Tony Kanaan KV/Chevy 169.482 8. Josef Newgarden Fisher/Honda 169.462 9. Simon Pagenaud Schmidt/Honda 169.311 10. Tristan Vautier Schmidt/Honda 169.215 11. Scott Dixon Ganassi/Honda 168.820 12. James Jakes Rahal/Honda 168.470 13. Justin Wilson Coyne/Honda 168.412 14. Sebastien Bourdais Dragon/Chevy 168.141 15. Takuma Sato Foyt/Honda 168.023 16. Alex Tagliani Herta/Honda 167.512 17. Dario Franchitti Ganassi/Honda 167.263 18. Helio Castroneves Penske/Chevy 167.169 19. Ryan Briscoe Panther/Chevy 165.765 20. Ana Beatriz Coyne/Honda 165.364 21. Ed Carpenter Carpenter/Chevy 164.797 22. Charlie Kimball Ganassi/Honda 164.124 23. Graham Rahal Rahal/Honda 163.230 24. Simona de Silvestro KV/Chevy 162.886 All drivers use Dallara DW12 chassis Order set by average speed over two-lap run
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