Indy 500 results: Latest qualifying results from Indianapolis Motor Speedway
The Indy 500 is set for its second and final day of qualifying, with the top 12 on the grid and final row to be set on Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
The Fast 12 was the first session of Sunday, and after positions 13 to 30 were set on Saturday, positions seven to 12 on the grid were set after the drivers had one four-lap run to try and put themselves into the Fast Six and the shootout for pole position.
Arrow McLaren driver Felix Rosenqvist backed up his pace from Saturday qualifying by putting himself top of the 12 runners in the first Sunday qualifying session, while three ex-Formula 1 drivers were eliminated.
Alexander Rossi and Takuma Sato will line up P7 and P8 next weekend respectively, while last year’s Indy 500 winner Marcus Ericsson will start P10.
The four last chance qualifiers followed, with only three places left to fill on the 33-car field and all three Rahal Letterman Lanigan drivers fighting it out to make it onto the grid, but just as it looked like British driver Jack Harvey would be the one to miss out, he put in one last-ditch attempt and knocked out team-mate Graham Rahal by just 0.007mph across four laps.
The fight for pole with the Fast Six would be the final action of the day, with Pato O’Ward setting the early benchmark for the rest to beat, before McLaren’s F1 reserve driver Alex Palou set a whopping 234.217mph average to lay down a gauntlet to the rest of the field.
But Rinus VeeKay went oh so close to matching the Spaniard, going just 0.006mph behind or just one hundredth of a second over the course of 10 miles’ worth of qualifying.
Rosenqvist, quickest on Saturday and in the Fast 12, was the last driver to go – he was consistent throughout his four laps, but he was not quite quick enough to knock Palou off top spot – meaning the Spaniard takes pole position for the big race next weekend.
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Indy 500 2023 qualifying results
Alex Palou: 234.217mph [four-lap average]
Rinus VeeKay: 234.211
Felix Rosenqvist: 234.114
Santino Ferrucci: 233.661
Pato O’Ward: 233.158
Scott Dixon: 233.151
Alexander Rossi: 233.110
Takuma Sato: 233.098
Tony Kanaan: 233.076
Marcus Ericsson: 233.889
Benjamin Pedersen: 232.671
Will Power: 232.635
Grid positions decided on SaturdayEd Carpenter: 232.689
Scott McLaughlin: 232.677
Kyle Kirkwood: 232.662
Conor Daly: 232.433
Josef Newgarden: 232.402
Ryan Hunter-Reay: 232.133
Romain Grosjean: 231.997
Helio Castroneves: 231.954
Colton Herta: 231.951
Simon Pagenaud: 231.878
David Malukas: 231.769
Marco Andretti: 231.682
Stefan Wilson: 231.648
Devlin DeFrancesco: 231.353
Callum Ilott: 231.320
Agustin Canapino: 231.182
R.C. Enerson: 231.129
Katherine Legge: 231.070
Last chance qualifiersChristian Lundgaard: 229.649
Sting Ray Robb: 229.549
Jack Harvey: 229.166
Did not qualify: Graham Rahal 229.159
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