IndyCar – Iowa 300 Qualifying Results
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1. (22) Simon Pagenaud, Chevrolet, 180.073 mph
2. (12) Will Power, Chevrolet, 179.589
3. (2) Josef Newgarden, Chevrolet, 179.449
4. (30) Takuma Sato, Honda, 177.646
5. (5) James Hinchcliffe, Honda, 176.200
6. (27) Alexander Rossi, Honda, 176.057
7. (15) Graham Rahal, Honda, 175.857
8. (9) Scott Dixon, Honda, 175.725
9. (28) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Honda, 175.618
10. (7) Marcus Ericsson, Honda, 175.578
11. (88) Colton Herta, Honda, 175.346
12. (19) Santino Ferrucci, Honda, 175.316
13. (14) Tony Kanaan, Chevrolet, 174.848
14. (31) Sage Karam, Chevrolet, 174.323
15. (10) Felix Rosenqvist, Honda, 174.237
16. (59) Conor Daly, Chevrolet, 173.837
17. (20) Ed Carpenter, Chevrolet, 173.540
18. (98) Marco Andretti, Honda, 173.044
19. (21) Spencer Pigot, Chevrolet, 171.791
20. (26) Zach Veach, Honda, 171.626
21. (18) Sebastien Bourdais, Honda, 171.390
22. (4) Matheus Leist, Chevrolet, 167.136
Team Penske’s Simon Pagenaud is on a drive to win his second NTT IndyCar Series championship, and he is doing so with excellence at various types of tracks. A week after winning the Toronto street race from the pole, the winner of the large-oval Indianapolis 500 captured Friday’s NTT P1 Award at Iowa Speedway, the season’s smallest track. Pagenaud will lead a field of 22 cars to the green flag of Saturday’s Iowa 300 (7 p.m. ET, NBCSN, the Advance Auto Parts INDYCAR Radio Network and SiriusXM Channel 209).
The number of laps in Friday’s qualifying is half of what is required at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but it’s no less intense. The laps are quick and busy, a 17-second blur over 7/8th of a mile. Only Pagenaud completed the two laps at an average speed in excess of 180 mph. The ability to excel in different disciplines is what Pagenaud is most proud of.
“We do superspeedways, one-and-a-half-mile speedways, short ovals, street courses, road courses,” he said. “To win a championship here, you need to be really complete. It takes a lifetime to be a complete driver, let me tell you.
“But that’s what I enjoy about INDYCAR – the diversity in skills, in tracks. I think for the fans, they get everything they want to see throughout the season.”
