Hornish leads all-Penske front row
Sam Hornish Jr will start on pole position for the opening round of the IRL IndyCar Series, with his team-mate Helio Castroneves completing an all-Penske front row
In a session where the entire field was covered by 0.8 seconds, Hornish was over 0.2 seconds quicker than the fastest non-Penske.
"I didn't think we were going to be able to run as fast as we did," said Hornish. "I'm really proud of my Team Penske crew, they've done a great job for me and they've really hung in there these past couple of years."
"It's a great team effort," Castroneves added. "Sam and I have been working really hard together. He took a few more chances than me and it paid off for him."
Danica Patrick emerged as best of the rest in third place for Rahal-Letterman Racing, ahead of former champions Scott Dixon and Tony Kanaan.
Last year's champion (and Homestead winner) Dan Wheldon was eighth quickest, but like most of the field he was not too concerned about his qualifying position.
"It was a little slower than we would have liked, but we've been working on trying to get a good race car and I think we have," said Wheldon.
Qualifying times from Homestead:
Pos Driver Team Chassis Time 1. Sam Hornish Jr Penske Dallara 24.4625 2. Helio Castroneves Penske Dallara 24.5131 3. Danica Patrick Rahal-Letterman Panoz 24.6589 4. Scott Dixon Ganassi Dallara 24.6622 5. Tony Kanaan Andretti-Green Dallara 24.7296 6. Buddy Rice Rahal-Letterman Panoz 24.7600 7. Dario Franchitti Andretti-Green Dallara 24.7664 8. Dan Wheldon Ganassi Dallara 24.7725 9. Paul Dana Rahal-Letterman Panoz 24.7967 10. Felipe Giaffone Foyt Dallara 24.8117 11. Bryan Herta Andretti-Green Dallara 24.8192 12. Tomas Scheckter Vision Dallara 24.8337 13. Ed Carpenter Vision Dallara 24.8399 14. Kosuke Matsuura Fernandez Dallara 24.8432 15. Scott Sharp Fernandez Dallara 24.8896 16. Eddie Cheever Cheever Dallara 24.9690 17. Marco Andretti Andretti-Green Dallara 24.9813 18. Buddy Lazier Dreyer & Reinbold Dallara 24.9878 19. Vitor Meira Panther Dallara 24.9892 20. P.J. Chesson Hemelgarn Dallara 25.2025
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