Sato beats teammate Rahal to pole

Takuma Sato has taken his first IndyCar pole position since Pocono in 2015, laying down a 1:08.5934 in the Fast Six.

The Japanese driver leads an all Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing front row, as he got the better of teammate Graham Rahal, who held provisional pole after the first round of laps.

Not a single Team Penske car managed to make it into the Fast Six, the first time that has happened since Long Beach, 2014.

Reigning series champion Scott Dixon ended the session in third place, beating Schmidt Peterson Motorsport's James Hinchcliffe to lead the second row.

Sebastian Bourdais was fifth, while Spencer Pigot setting his fastest lap on the slower, black Firestone tyre to secure sixth for the start of tomorrow's race.

Perhaps surprisingly, there were no red flags deployed during the qualifying sessions, after the practice running was heavily disturbed by the reds throughout the weekend on the build-up to qualifying.

Will Power will start from seventh, having secured pole position at the first two rounds of the season so far. His teammates Josef Newgarden and Simon Pagenaud were surprise exits from Q1.

Alexander Rossi joins Power on row four, ahead of Colton Herta, who won last time out at the Circuit of the Americas. Santino Ferrucci will start from tenth.

Firestone Fast Six

Pos.	Driver	Team	Time	Gap
undefined 1.	undefined Takuma Sato	undefined Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	undefined 1:08.5934	undefined -
undefined 2.	undefined Graham Rahal	undefined Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	undefined 1:08.6971	undefined +0.1037
undefined 3.	undefined Scott Dixon	undefined Chip Ganassi Racing	undefined 1:08.8081	undefined +0.2147
undefined 4.	undefined James Hinchcliffe	undefined Schmidt Peterson Motorsport	undefined 1:08.8476	undefined +0.2542
undefined 5.	undefined Sebastien Bourdais	undefined Dale Coyne Racing	undefined 1:09.0189	undefined +0.4255
undefined 6.	undefined Spencer Pigot	undefined Ed Carpenter Racing	undefined 1:09.6074	undefined +1.0140

Pos.	Driver	Team	Time	Gap
undefined 1.	undefined James Hinchcliffe	undefined Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	undefined 1:08.4074	undefined -
undefined 2.	undefined Spencer Pigot	undefined Ed Carpenter Racing	undefined 1:08.5951	undefined +0.1877
undefined 3.	undefined Scott Dixon	undefined Chip Ganassi Racing	undefined 1:08.6123	undefined +0.2049
undefined 4.	undefined Takuma Sato	undefined Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	undefined 1:08.6234	undefined +0.2160
undefined 5.	undefined Graham Rahal	undefined Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	undefined 1:08.6996	undefined +0.2922
undefined 6.	undefined Sebastien Bourdais	undefined Dale Coyne Racing	undefined 1:08.7860	undefined +0.3786
undefined 7.	undefined Will Power	undefined Team Penske	undefined 1:08.8248	undefined +0.4174
undefined 8.	undefined Alexander Rossi	undefined Andretti Autosport	undefined 1:08.8866	undefined +0.4792
undefined 9.	undefined Colton Herta	undefined Harding Racing	undefined 1:08.9130	undefined +0.5056
undefined 10.	undefined Santino Ferrucci	undefined Dale Coyne Racing	undefined 1:09.0213	undefined +0.6139
undefined 11.	undefined Ryan Hunter-Reay	undefined Andretti Autosport	undefined 1:09.0764	undefined +0.6690
undefined 12.	undefined Jack Harvey	undefined Meyer Shank Racing	undefined 1:09.2967	undefined +0.8893

Q1 Group 2

Pos.	Driver	Team	Time	Gap
undefined 1.	undefined Scott Dixon	undefined Chip Ganassi Racing	undefined 1:08.4996	undefined
undefined 2.	undefined Graham Rahal	undefined Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	undefined 1:08.5104	undefined +0.0108
undefined 3.	undefined Will Power	undefined Team Penske	undefined 1:08.5397	undefined +0.0401
undefined 4.	undefined Ryan Hunter-Reay	undefined Andretti Autosport	undefined 1:08.6872	undefined +0.1876
undefined 5.	undefined Takuma Sato	undefined Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	undefined 1:08.7171	undefined +0.2175
undefined 6.	undefined James Hinchcliffe	undefined Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	undefined 1:08.7545	undefined +0.2549
undefined 7.	undefined Simon Pagenaud	undefined Team Penske	undefined 1:08.7943	undefined +0.2947
undefined 8.	undefined Josef Newgarden	undefined Team Penske	undefined 1:08.8700	undefined +0.3704
undefined 9.	undefined Patricio O'Ward	undefined Carlin	undefined 1:08.9011	undefined +0.4015
undefined 10.	undefined Marcus Ericsson	undefined Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	undefined 1:08.9226	undefined +0.4230
undefined 11.	undefined Max Chilton	undefined Carlin	undefined 1:09.0566	undefined +0.5570
undefined 12.	undefined Ben Hanley	undefined DragonSpeed	undefined 1:10.4165	undefined +1.9169

Q1 Group 1

Pos.	Driver	Team	Time	Gap
undefined 1.	undefined Spencer Pigot	undefined Ed Carpenter Racing	undefined 1:08.3548	undefined -
undefined 2.	undefined Colton Herta	undefined Harding Racing	undefined 1:08.3762	undefined +0.0214
undefined 3.	undefined Santino Ferrucci	undefined Dale Coyne Racing	undefined 1:08.5672	undefined +0.2124
undefined 4.	undefined Sébastien Bourdais	undefined Dale Coyne Racing	undefined 1:08.5930	undefined +0.2382
undefined 5.	undefined Alexander Rossi	undefined Andretti Autosport	undefined 1:08.8013	undefined +0.4465
undefined 6.	undefined Jack Harvey	undefined Meyer Shank Racing	undefined 1:08.8605	undefined +0.5057
undefined 7.	undefined Marco Andretti	undefined Andretti Autosport	undefined 1:08.8950	undefined +0.5402
undefined 8.	undefined Matheus Leist	undefined A.J. Foyt Enterprises	undefined 1:08.9477	undefined +0.5929
undefined 9.	undefined Felix Rosenqvist	undefined Chip Ganassi Racing	undefined 1:08.9630	undefined +0.6082
undefined 10.	undefined Tony Kanaan	undefined A.J. Foyt Enterprises	undefined 1:09.0327	undefined +0.6779
undefined 11.	undefined Ed Jones	undefined Ed Carpenter Racing	undefined 1:09.0441	undefined +0.6893
undefined 12.	undefined Zach Veach	undefined Andretti Autosport	undefined 1:09.4478	undefined +1.0930