Allmendinger grabs Cleveland pole
AJ Allmendinger kept up his momentum from Portland with a great qualifying lap to take pole for tomorrow's Grand Prix of Cleveland
The American took his Forsythe Championship Racing entry round in 56.283 seconds, an average speed of 134.705mph to beat championship leader Sebastien Bourdais by approximately a quarter of a second.
Paul Tracy crashed his car heavily while fastest in the 10-minute pre-qualifying session and had to take his back-up car, which he struggled and spun with. He will rely on his Friday time to start fifth.
Justin Wilson took third for RuSPORT but was twice blocked by backmarkers and had an off, while Oriol Servia did a great job for PKV Racing to take fourth, just 0.6 seconds off Allmendinger.
Nelson Philippe was an excellent sixth for CTE Racing-HVM, ahead of Newman/Haas and RuSPORT's second drivers, Bruno Junqueira and Cristiano da Matta.
Team Australia will line up eighth and ninth.
Combined qualifying results:
Pos Driver Team Time 1. Allmendinger Forsythe Championship 56.283 2. Bourdais Newman/Haas 56.638 + 0.355 3. Wilson RuSPORT 56.651 + 0.368 4. Servia PKV 56.855 + 0.572 5. Tracy Forsythe Championship 57.011 + 0.728 6. Philippe CTE - HVM 57.162 + 0.879 7. Junqueira Newman/Haas 57.178 + 0.895 8. Tagliani Team Australia 57.401 + 1.118 9. Power Team Australia 57.538 + 1.255 10. da Matta RuSPORT 57.570 + 1.287 11. Clarke CTE - HVM 57.619 + 1.336 12. Ranger Mi-Jack Conquest 57.772 + 1.489 13. Zwolsman Mi-Jack Conquest 58.023 + 1.740 14. Legge PKV 58.048 + 1.765 15. Pastorelli Rocketsports 58.179 + 1.896 16. Heylen Dale Coyne 58.261 + 1.978 17. Dominguez Dale Coyne 58.801 + 2.518 18. Kasemets Rocketsports 59.549 + 3.266
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