Hunter-Reay Wins Pole for Honda Indy two hundred At Mid-Ohio

One DHL automotive for Andretti Auto sport to earn the Verizon P1 Award for the Honda Indy two hundred at Mid-Ohio on August. 4.

The powerful IZOD Indy Car Series champion came tantalizing near the journal of1:05.347 shared by Dario Franchitti (August 1999) and Gil Delaware Ferran (August 2000) within the Firestone quick Six to assert his third pole of the season and 1st in eight starts at the two.258-mile, 13-turn Mid-Ohio Sports automotive Course.

There are six races left within the season and Hunter-Reay is third within the standings (68 points behind favourite Helio Castro eves).

“Last year we tend to clawed back from larger deficits,” he said. “Being late within the season, we'd like to travel like we tend to did last year at the tip of the season that is choosing poor. We’re not fascinated by banking results immediate at once right away without delay straight away} and going for second or third within the championship as a result of no one extremely remembers United Nations agency finishes second one or two of years from now.

Hunter-Reay Wins Pole for Honda Indy two hundred At Mid-Ohio

“We’re going for it. Hopefully this is often the primary step in it. However we've extended thanks to go, including tomorrow’s fight for the win. It’s about to be an extended, onerous race intensifying against the Ganassi, Penske boys and my teammates in addition.”

Will Power, the 2012 pole sitter within the No. twelve Verizon Team Penske automotive, was .1840 of a second back for his fourth front-row begins of the season. Scott Dixon, United Nations agency has won the past 2 races at Mid-Ohio and 4 of the past six are going to be on Row two with Marco Andretti, United Nations agency created his beginning of the season within the Firestone quick Six.

Dixon’s associate Charlie Kimball tied his career-best qualifying effort of fifth and Franchitti checked in sixth. Castro eves, United Nations agency enters the 90-lap race with a 29-point lead over Dixon, can begin fifteenth within the No. three PPG Team Penske automotive. It’s his fourth non-top ten qualifying results of the season and also the 1st since city in mid-June. He finished second therein 250-lap race on the one-mile oval.

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