Andretti Autosport locked out the entrance row in qualifying for the IndyCar Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, with ten-year Components 1 veteran Romain Grosjean profitable pole place, forward of F1 aspirant Colton Herta.
Grosjean took the second pole place of his IndyCar profession, his first since becoming a member of the Andretti staff final season. However he needed to wait to get the prospect to set his flying lap after two incidents within the Quick Six session of qualifying.
On his out lap, new Andretti Autosport driver Kyle Kirkwood locked up heading into the tight right-hand flip 13, and smashed the left-front quarter of his quantity 27 Dallara-Honda into the concrete obstacles, bringing out the crimson flags. However regardless of the humiliating finish to his first Quick Six look, he was nonetheless assured a career-best fifth-place beginning place.
That was as a result of after the session resumed, Scott McLaughlin clipped the wall on the exit of flip 10, and spun exiting the quick right-left chicane earlier than flip 13. He got here to a cease, inflicting one other crimson flag. McLaughlin, who gained this race from pole place final 12 months, will begin sixth.
Lastly, the remaining three minutes and 17 seconds have been run with out incident. With the 2 remaining Andretti drivers on a contemporary set of alternate compound tyres, Herta took provisional pole with a time of 59.969 seconds – just for Grosjean to grab the highest spot away with a time of 59.553, adequate for pole place and simply two-tenths off the outright lap file set final 12 months by Will Energy.
McLaren’s Pato O’Ward certified third-fastest, better of the Chevrolet-powered vehicles, forward of final 12 months’s Indianapolis 500 winner Marcus Ericsson in fourth, main the cost for Chip Ganassi Racing.
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2021 IndyCar champion Álex Palou, the sequence’ most up-to-date race winner from the top of 2022, certified in seventh subsequent to Felix Rosenqvist. Six-time sequence champion Scott Dixon certified ninth, whereas two-times and defending sequence champion Will Energy might qualify no higher than tenth at a observe the place he’s taken 9 pole positions up to now.
Christian Lundgaard had a difficult begin to Q2 when he dived into the run-off at flip 4. He returned to complete the session and certified eleventh, whereas his Rahal Letterman Lanigan staff mates Graham Rahal and Jack Harvey missed the reduce for Q2 fully. Alexander Rossi, in his first qualifying session with McLaren, was twelfth.
Among the many notable names that didn’t advance out of the Q1 group phases have been Simon Pagenaud, who locked up his entrance tyres heading into flip 4, and hit the tyre obstacles, inflicting a crimson flag with simply 12 seconds left.
Two-times champion Josef Newgarden additionally did not advance out of the group phases, qualifying in 14th, forward of Hélio Castroneves in fifteenth. Rinus VeeKay was sad after being baulked by Newgarden on the method to show 10, which price the Carpenter driver any likelihood of advancing additional – he’ll begin twenty fourth.
4 rookies made their first qualifying makes an attempt. Whereas none of them superior previous the group phases, Ferrari Driver Academy alumnus Marcus Armstrong was the quickest, qualifying thirteenth in his quantity 11 Ganassi/Honda. Among the many different rookies, Agustin Canapino begins twenty first, Sting Ray Robb is twenty third and Benjamin Pedersen twenty seventh.
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Grand Prix of St Petersburg qualifying outcomes
PositionCarDriverTeamEngine128Romain GrosjeanAndrettiHonda226Colton HertaAndrettiHonda35Pato O’WardMcLarenChevrolet48Marcus EricssonGanassiHonda527Kyle KirkwoodAndrettiHonda63Scott McLaughlinPenskeChevrolet710Alex PalouGanassiHonda86Felix RosenqvistMcLarenChevrolet99Scott DixonGanassiHonda101Will PowerPenskeChevrolet1145Christian LundgaardRLLHonda127Alexander RossiMcLarenChevrolet1311Marcus ArmstrongGanassiHonda142Josef NewgardenPenskeChevrolet15106Helio CastronevesMeyer ShankHonda1618David MalukasCoyne/HMDHonda1714Santino FerrucciFoytChevrolet1829Devlin DeFrancescoAndrettiHonda1930Jack HarveyRLLHonda2015Graham RahalRLLHonda2178Agustin CanapinoJuncos HollingerChevrolet2277Callum IlottJuncos HollingerChevrolet2351Sting Ray RobbCoyne/RWRHonda2421Rinus VeeKayCarpenterChevrolet2560Simon PagenaudMeyer ShankHonda2620Conor DalyCarpenterChevrolet2755Benjamin PedersenFoytChevrolet
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