«In practice we functioned better, I was closer to Romain (Grosjean). “We made some changes for qualifying and I don’t know what happened but the car felt very strange.” declared Agustín Canapino in the official broadcast once the classification for the second group in Barber Motorsports Park. A time of 1m06s670 meant his fastest pass of the weekend, but It was not enough for him to pass the first “court” on the Alabama circuit. There were 22 hundredths that separated him from Tom Blomqvist, the sixth in the Reef group.
This way, Sunday’s final will start twentiethbeing the third consecutive time that he has placed this position in scoring races. Saturday’s classification was in the hands of Scott McLaughlin (Penske).
Romain Grosjean managed to get into the top twelve, after finishing fifth in the first qualifying group. In their group, they accompanied the French Alex Palou (Ganassi), Patrick O’Ward (Arrow McLaren) Marcus Armstrong (Ganassi), Graham Rahal (Rahal Letterman Lanigan) and Kyle Kirkwood (Andretti) to second classification. In Canapino’s group, Scott McLaughlin (Penske) advanced, Will Power (Penske), Joseph Newgarden (Penske), Christian Lundgaard (Rahal Letterman Lanigan), Felix Rosenqvist (Meyer) and Tom Blomqvist (Meyer).
Among them, the pilots who managed to advance to the Fast 6 They were Will Power, Felix Rosenqvist, Christian Lundgaard, Marcus Armstrong, Patricio O’Ward and Scott McLaughlin. The latter recorded 1m05s949 in the final stretch of the Quality and reached his sixth pole position in the IndyCar Series.
INDYCAR – BARBER – CLASSIFICATION
POS | No. | PILOT | TIME |
1 | 3 | Scott McLaughlin | 01:05.9490 |
2 | 12 | Will Power | 01:06.0460 |
3 | Four. Five | Christian Lundgaard | 01:06.0818 |
4 | 5 | Duck O’Ward | 01:06.2940 |
5 | 60 | Felix Rosenqvist | 01:06.4524 |
6 | eleven | Marcus Armstrong | 01:06.9022 |
7 | fifteen | Graham Rahal | 01:06.0942 |
8 | 2 | Joseph Newgarden | 01:06.2908 |
9 | 27 | Kyle Kirkwood | 01:06.2959 |
10 | 10 | Alex Palou | 01:06.3013 |
eleven | 77 | Romain Grosjean | 01:06.3526 |
12 | 66 | Tom Blomqvist | 01:06.3871 |
13 | 9 | Scott Dixon | 01:06.1425 |
14 | twenty | Christian Rasmussen | 01:06.4803 |
fifteen | 26 | Colton Herta | 01:06.1481 |
16 | 7 | Alexander Rossi | 01:06.5054 |
17 | 14 | Santino Ferrucci | 01:06.2751 |
18 | 28 | Marcus Ericsson | 01:06.5846 |
19 | 8 | Linus Lundqvist | 01:06.2825 |
twenty | 78 | Agustin Canapino | 01:06.6706 |
twenty-one | 51 | Luca Ghiotto | 01:06.4788 |
22 | 18 | Jack Harvey | 01:06.7969 |
23 | 4 | Kyffin Simpson | 01:06.5267 |
24 | 6 | Theo Pourchaire | 01:06.9052 |
25 | 41 | Sting Ray Robb | 01:06.8404 |
26 | 30 | Pietro Fittipaldi | 01:07.4920 |
27 | twenty-one | Rinus VeeKay | 01:07.7392 |