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Ryan Briscoe edges out James Hinchcliffe for Indianapolis 500 pole

Penske's Ryan Briscoe will start next weekend's Indianapolis 500 from pole position after edging out James Hinchcliffe in a tight battle at Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Briscoe's time across four laps of 2m38.9514s was a scant 0.0023 seconds quicker than Andretti Autosport's Hinchcliffe to deliver the closest qualifying gap by time in the race's history. The Australian's average speed was 226.464mph.

Andretti locked out positions two through to four on the grid, with Ryan Hunter-Reay just beating Marco Andretti for third, and Penske duo Will Power and Helio Castroneves just behind them.

Sarah Fisher Hartman rookie Josef Newgarden was quickest of the Honda-powered runners in sixth, while Ganassi's standard-bearers Scott Dixon and Dario Franchitti will start from 15th and 16th respectively. Rubens Barrichello (KV) will start his first oval race a handful of places ahead of the Ganassis in 10th.

Several cars still need to make the field on Sunday's Bump Day after missing the top 24 on Saturday, including both Lotus-powered entries (HVM's Simona de Silvestro and Fan Force's Jean Alesi), Dragon's Sebastien Bourdais and Katherine Legge, AJ Foyt Racing's Mike Conway, and Sarah Fisher Hartman rookie Bryan Clauson.

Pos  Driver              Team/Car                      Speed
 1.  Ryan Briscoe        Penske DW12-Chevy             226.484
 2.  James Hinchcliffe   Andretti DW12-Chevy           226.481
 3.  Ryan Hunter-Reay    Andretti DW12-Chevy           226.240
 4.  Marco Andretti      Andretti DW12-Chevy           225.456
 5.  Will Power          Penske DW12-Chevy             225.422
 6.  Helio Castroneves   Penske DW12-Chevy             225.172
 7.  Josef Newgarden     Fisher DW12-Honda             224.037
 8.  Tony Kanaan         KV DW12-Chevy                 224.751
 9.  EJ Viso             KV DW12-Chevy                 224.422
10.  Rubens Barrichello  KV DW12-Chevy                 224.264
11.  Alex Tagliani       Herta DW12-Honda              224.000
12.  Graham Rahal        Ganassi DW12-Honda            223.959
13.  Ana Beatriz         Andretti/Conquest DW12-Chevy  223.920
14.  Charlie Kimball     Ganassi DW12-Honda            223.868
15.  Scott Dixon         Ganassi DW12-Honda            223.684
16.  Dario Franchitti    Ganassi DW12-Honda            223.582
17.  James Jakes         Dale Coyne DW12-Honda         223.482
18.  JR Hildebrand       Panther DW12-Chevy            223.422
19.  Takuma Sato         Rahal DW12-Honda              223.392
20.  Townsend Bell       Schmidt DW12-Honda            223.134
21.  Justin Wilson       Dale Coyne DW12-Honda         222.929
22.  Michel Jourdain Jr  Rahal DW12-Honda              222.893
23.  Simon Pagenaud      Schmidt DW12-Honda            222.891
24.  Sebastian Saavedra  AFS/Andretti DW12-Chevy       222.811

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