Practice and qualifying 2010 Honda Indy Edmonton

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will power had sixth pole position of 2010 season.


two practice sessions held on friday before race: each lasted hour. third session, hour long, took place on saturday morning prior qualifying. franchitti fastest in first practice session time of 1 minute , 3.0885 seconds; dixon second , power third. hélio castroneves fourth-fastest, ahead of justin wilson , paul tracy. ryan briscoe, ryan hunter-reay, e. j. viso , takuma sato rounded out session s top-ten drivers. session stopped twice: firstly milka duno lost control of car , went turn ten tire barrier damaging front wing, , bertrand baguette spun after hitting chicane kerb caused him drive through advertising billboard. in second practice session, power set fastest time of day lap of 1 minute , 1.6689 seconds, teammates briscoe in second , castroneves third. franchitti recorded fourth-quickest time; sato fifth , dixon sixth. wilson, viso, tracy , tony kanaan followed in top ten. 3 caution flags came out; baugette crashed, duno stalled after spun , tomas scheckter slid tire barrier.


in final practice session, castroneves recorded fastest time lap of 1 minute , 1.6642 seconds, ahead of team penske teammates power , briscoe. hideki mutoh recorded fourth-fastest time; dixon fifth , tracy sixth. wilson seventh-fastest, kannan eighth, marco andretti ninth , sato completed top ten ahead of qualifying. several drivers had high-speed spins without damaging cars triggered caution flags displayed. stoppage caused when tracy , alex tagilani both spun in first turn; former narrowly avoided collision baugette exiting pit lane.


qualifying followed usual road , street course system, field being split 2 groups. cars split 2 groups of twelve, fastest 6 each group going through top 12 session. in session, fastest 6 runners progressed firestone fast 6 . fastest driver in final session claimed pole position, rest of runners lining in session order, regardless of qualifying times. (fast 6 1 six, top 12 seven-twelve , round 1 13–24, group 1 drivers occupying odd-numbered grid positions, , group 2 drivers occupying even-numbered starting positions). duno prohibited participating in qualifying because practice lap times did not meet required performance standards allowed start race. in first group of twelve runners, power paced session, three-tenths of second faster teammate briscoe castroneves in third place. other drivers make second session of qualifying franchitti, wilson , raphael matos. remaining twelve drivers took part in second group, simona de silvestro recording fastest lap of day. hunter-reay, dixon, viso, mutoh , scheckter other competitors in top six, , progressed second round of qualifying. in top 12, power set fastest lap time, holding off teammate castroneves , dixon. briscoe, franchitti , viso finished between fourth , sixth, , other half of drivers progressed fast six. power clinched sixth pole position of season time of 1 minute , 00.7126 seconds. joined on grid s front row teammate castroneves had pole position until power s lap. chip ganassi racing teammates dixon , franchitti third , fourth, , briscoe took fifth ahead of viso.








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