INDIANAPOLIS – We’ve
gone through the original qualifying line – and then some – and now have a
break in the action following a crash by Oriol Servia.
Servia spun in Turn 4,
backed into the inside wall at the head of the pits, then smacked the
attenuator at the entrance of the pits, spun around and came to a rest. Servia,
who started on the front row last year but has struggled this year, climbed
from the car.
The provisional fast
nine has some big surprises, both in terms of who’s in (E.J. Viso and Rubens
Barrichello) and who’s out (everyone who drives a Chip Ganassi car).
James Hinchcliffe,
driving the car intended for Dan Wheldon, has the provisional pole with a
four-lap average of 225.746 mph.
Rounding out the front
row at the moment are Will Power (225.399 mph) and Ryan Hunter-Reay (225.289
mph).
The second row consists
of Helio Castroneves (225.282,) Ryan Briscoe (225.078 mph) and Marco Andretti
(224.680 mph).
Rookie Josef Newgarden,
Viso and Barrichello make up the third row.
Barrichello, a Formula
One veteran who won the 2002 United State Grand Prix at Indianapolis, knocked
Alex Tagliani, last year’s pole sitter, out of the top nine with a run of
224.264 mph.
Tony Kanaan was securely
in the fast nine with an average of 225.100 mph, but that run was disallowed
because his car did not have the required ballast.
Photo credit: Forrest Mellott / Indianapolis Motor Speedway
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