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Saturday at St. Louis - The IndyCars are qualified…
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The format is simple: Each car goes out one at a time and puts down a warm-up lap followed by two hot laps. Those two laps are added together and averaged and the fastest car is on pole, with everyone else lineing up based on speed.
The cars are then held in Parc Ferme without any changes made before the race, so the qually set-up is the race set-up…or, at least the set-up for the first stint of the race.
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Here is the way the IndyCar qualified for Season Round 13, with times for the TOP SIX: [R] denotes rookie; times are for both laps, while speed is the average of those two laps.
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Row 1
Pole - Will Power, Team Penske - time of 00:49.8289s for a speed of 180.618mph

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P2 - Colton Herta, Andretti Autosport - time of 00:49.8537s for a speed of 180.528mph

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Row 2
P3 - Josef Newgarden, Team Penske - time of 00:49.8589s for a speed of 180.509mph

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P4 - Simon Pagenaud, Team Penske - time of 00:49.8981s for a speed of 180.368mph

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Row 3
P5 - Pato O’Ward, Arrow McLaren SP - time of 00:50.0296s for a speed of 179.894mph

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P6 - Marcus Ericsson, Chip Ganassi Racing - time of 00:50.0449s for a speed of 179.839mph

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Row 4
P7 - Alexander Rossi, Andretti Autosport
P8 - Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi Racing
Row 5
P9 - Graham Rahal, Rahal Letterman Lanigan
P10 - Felix Rosenqvist, Arrow McLaren SP
Row 6
P11 - Scott McLaughlin [R], Team Penske
P12 - Alex Palou, Chip Ganassi Racing
Row 7
P13 - Ed Jones, Dale Coyne Racing w/ Vasser Sullivan
P14 - Ryan Hunter-Reay, Andretti Autosport
Row 8
P15 - Romain Grosjean [R], Dale Coyne Racing w/ Rick Ware Racing
P16 - Jack Harvey, Meyer Shank Racing
Row 9
P17 - Takuma Sato, Rahal Letterman Lanigan
P18 - Tony Kanaan, Chip Ganassi Racing
Row 10
P19 - Sebastien Bourdais, AJ Foyt Enterprises
P20 - James Hinchcliffe, Andretti Autosport
Row 11
P21 - Conor Daly, Carlin
P22 - Ed Carpenter, Ed Carpenter Racing
Row 12
P23 - Rinus VeeKay, Ed Carpenter Racing
P24 - Dalton Kellett, AJ Foyt Enterprises
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Notable:
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Team Penske put 3 cars in the first two rows. That’s domination. Team rookie Scott McLaughlin slotted in a very credible P11, too.
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The TOP FIVE title contenders are all in the first four rows, except for points leader Alex Palou who is back in Row 6. But Alex is also getting a nine-spot grid penalty for an unapproved engine change after the race on the Indy Road Course, so he will actually start even worse, in P21.
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Ed Carpenter Racing usually has this races in the bag, but they have been hopeless since they arrived and both cars are tail end Charlies.
Alex Palou - in the Outback

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The race is scheduled for broadcast on NBC-SN starting at 8:00pm EASTERN time. Next up, the Indy Lights close out their weekend with Race 2. The grid for this is in post # 4…
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