Here are live updates from Sunday’s qualifying session for the 102nd running of the Indy 500, which is set to take place next Sunday.
The second of two days of qualifying for the 102nd running of the Indianapolis 500, the sixth race of the 2018 IndyCar season, has begun, and it is set to last from 2:45 p.m. ET all the way to 5:45 p.m. ET this evening.
After 35 drivers attempted to become one of the 33 drivers to make the field yesterday, the 33 drivers who qualified for the field are battling in two separate groups in today’s qualifying session at the four-turn, 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval in Speedway, Indiana.
The first of those two groups is for the drivers who finished from 10th through 33rd place on the speed chart in yesterday’s qualifying session. They will have one qualifying attempt each today to try to start the race as high as 10th. They are all guaranteed to make the field.
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The second of those two groups is for the drivers who finished from first through ninth place on the speed chart in yesterday’s qualifying session. They will have one qualifying attempt each today to try to start the race on the pole position. They can start the race in no lower than ninth.
You can read more about today’s qualifying format here.
Here are the qualifying results in Sunday’s qualifying session for the 2018 Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway so far. The speeds shown are each driver’s average speed over his or her four-lap qualifying runs. The speeds are shown in miles per hour.
| Rank | Driver | Car, Team, Engine | Speed |
| 1 | Ed Carpenter | #20, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet | 229.618 |
| 2 | Simon Pagenaud | #22, Team Penske, Chevrolet | 228.761 |
| 3 | Will Power | #12, Team Penske, Chevrolet | 228.607 |
| 4 | Josef Newgarden | #1, Team Penske, Chevrolet | 228.405 |
| 5 | Sebastien Bourdais | #18, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda | 228.142 |
| 6 | Spencer Pigot | #21, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet | 228.107 |
| 7 | Danica Patrick | #13, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet | 228.090 |
| 8 | Helio Castroneves | #3, Team Penske, Chevrolet | 227.859 |
| 9 | Scott Dixon | #9, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda | 227.262 |
| 10 | Tony Kanaan | #14, A.J. Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet | 227.664 |
| 11 | Matheus Leist | #4, A.J. Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet | 227.571 |
| 12 | Marco Andretti | #98, Andretti Herta Autosport, Honda | 227.288 |
| 13 | Zachary Claman DeMelo | #19, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda | 226.999 |
| 14 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | #28, Andretti Autosport, Honda | 226.788 |
| 15 | Charlie Kimball | #23, Carlin Motorsport, Chevrolet | 226.657 |
| 16 | Takuma Sato | #30, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda | 226.557 |
| 17 | Kyle Kaiser | #32, Juncos Racing, Chevrolet | 226.398 |
| 18 | Robert Wickens | #6, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Honda | 226.296 |
| 19 | James Davison | #33, A.J. Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet | 226.255 |
| 20 | Max Chilton | #59, Carlin Motorsport, Chevrolet | 226.212 |
| 21 | Carlos Munoz | #29, Andretti Autosport, Honda | 226.048 |
| 22 | Gabby Chaves | #88, Harding Racing, Chevrolet | 226.007 |
| 23 | Stefan Wilson | #25, Andretti Autosport, Honda | 225.863 |
| 24 | Sage Karam | #24, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, Chevrolet | 225.823 |
| 25 | Zach Veach | #26, Andretti Autosport, Honda | 225.748 |
| 26 | Oriol Servia | #64, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda | 225.699 |
| 27 | J.R. Hildebrand | #66, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, Chevrolet | 225.418 |
| 28 | Jay Howard | #7, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Honda | 225.388 |
| 29 | Ed Jones | #10, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda | 225.362 |
| 30 | Graham Rahal | #15, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda | 225.327 |
| 31 | Jack Harvey | #60, Meyer Shank Racing, Honda | 225.254 |
| 32 | Alexander Rossi | #27, Andretti Autosport, Honda | 224.935 |
| 33 | Conor Daly | #17, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda | 224.429 |
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Qualifying is set to continue to be broadcast live on WatchESPN in addition to IndyCar RaceControl and the Advance Auto Parts IndyCar Radio Network in its entirety up until 6:00 p.m. ET this evening. It is also set to be broadcast live on ABC, but only from 4:00 p.m. ET to 6:00 p.m. ET.