Detroit IndyCar: Sato leads all-Andretti front row for Race 2
Takuma Sato and Ryan Hunter-Reay will lead the field to the green for this afternoon’s second race at Belle Isle in Detroit.
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The first group of drivers was thoroughly compromised by Carlos Munoz crunching into the wall exiting Turn 2, leaving only time for a one lap sprint at the end of the session.
Andretti Autosport-Honda's Ryan Hunter-Reay seized the opportunity to grab top spot, two-tenths of a second ahead of Penske-Chevrolet’s Helio Castroneves.
But inevitably the second session, uninterrupted, was much faster and Sato was 0.14sec clear of yesterday’s dominant winner Graham Rahal. The Indy 500 winner also set a new qualifying track record of 1min13.6732sec.
Rahal will thus line up third, alongside Castroneves, as per yesterday albeit a row further back. Fifth will again be occupied by James Hinchcliffe who spun on Lap 1 yesterday but stormed back to finish third. Mikhail Aleshin will make that third row an all-Schmidt Peterson Motorsports affair.
Penske’s Will Power set some extraordinary sub-74sec lap times on blacks at the start of Group 2’s session. However, a switch onto reds was left too late and he skated down an escape road, and he’ll thus line up seventh, alongside Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda’s Scott Dixon.
Marco Andretti made it three Andretti cars in the top 10, while Conor Daly brought some smiles to AJ Foyt Racing after Munoz’s faux-pas by nailing 10th spot.
Qualifying results:
Pos. | # | Driver | Team | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 26 | Takuma Sato | Andretti Autosport | 1'13.6732 | |
2 | 28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | Andretti Autosport | 1'15.2833 | 1.6101 |
3 | 15 | Graham Rahal | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing | 1'13.8105 | 0.1373 |
4 | 3 | Helio Castroneves | Team Penske | 1'15.5279 | 1.8547 |
5 | 5 | James Hinchcliffe | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports | 1'13.8264 | 0.1532 |
6 | 7 | Mikhail Aleshin | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports | 1'16.0371 | 2.3639 |
7 | 12 | Will Power | Team Penske | 1'13.9449 | 0.2717 |
8 | 9 | Scott Dixon | Chip Ganassi Racing | 1'16.1727 | 2.4995 |
9 | 27 | Marco Andretti | Andretti Autosport | 1'14.0339 | 0.3607 |
10 | 4 | Conor Daly | A. J. Foyt Enterprises | 1'16.1732 | 2.5000 |
11 | 1 | Simon Pagenaud | Team Penske | 1'14.0765 | 0.4033 |
12 | 83 | Charlie Kimball | Chip Ganassi Racing | 1'16.1800 | 2.5068 |
13 | 2 | Josef Newgarden | Team Penske | 1'14.1814 | 0.5082 |
14 | 98 | Alexander Rossi | Andretti Autosport | 1'16.2884 | 2.6152 |
15 | 10 | Tony Kanaan | Chip Ganassi Racing | 1'14.3287 | 0.6555 |
16 | 8 | Max Chilton | Chip Ganassi Racing | 1'16.5150 | 2.8418 |
17 | 19 | Ed Jones | Dale Coyne Racing | 1'14.7786 | 1.1054 |
18 | 21 | J.R. Hildebrand | Ed Carpenter Racing | 1'18.6272 | 4.9540 |
19 | 18 | Esteban Gutierrez | Dale Coyne Racing | 1'15.0055 | 1.3323 |
20 | 16 | Oriol Servia | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing | 1'21.4485 | 7.7753 |
21 | 20 | Spencer Pigot | Ed Carpenter Racing | 1'15.8491 | 2.1759 |
22 | 14 | Carlos Munoz | A. J. Foyt Enterprises | no time | - |
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