IndyCar: Will Power takes pole for 2018 ABC Supply 500

By Asher Fair | Aug 18, 2018

FORT WORTH, TX - JUNE 08: Will Power, driver of the #12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet (Photo by Brian Lawdermilk/Getty Images) /

Will Power earned his third pole position of the 2018 IndyCar season in the season’s 14th race, the ABC Supply 500, at Pocono Raceway.

Team Penske’s Will Power earned his third pole position of the 17-race 2018 IndyCar season in the 14th race of the season, the ABC Supply 500, at Pocono Raceway. He also took the pole positions for the Grand Prix of Indianapolis at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Iowa Corn 300 at Iowa Speedway.

Power took the pole position for the 200-lap race by recording a two-lap average speed of 219.511 miles per hour (82.0006 total seconds) around the three-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) Pocono Raceway triangle in Long Pond, Pennsylvania in his #12 Chevrolet.

This pole position is the 53rd pole position of Power’s IndyCar career, which tied him for second place on the all-time list with A.J. Foyt. He now trails only Mario Andretti, who recorded 67 poles throughout his IndyCar career, on the all-time list.

Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden qualified alongside Power on the front row in second place in his #1 Chevrolet. Power and Newgarden finished last year’s Pocono Race in first and second, respectively.

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Team Penske’s other driver, Simon Pagenaud, qualified in fifth place and was the only other Chevrolet driver who qualified in the top 13. The highest qualifying non-Team Penske Chevrolet of the race is A.J. Foyt Enterprises’ Tony Kanaan. He qualified in 14th in his #14 Chevrolet.

Andretti Autosport teammates Alexander Rossi and Ryan Hunter-Reay are the highest qualifying Honda drivers of the race. They qualified in third and fourth place in their #27 Honda and #28 Honda, respectively.

Honda drivers took each of the eight positions from sixth through 13th place on the starting grid. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports teammates Robert Wickens and James Hinchcliffe qualified in sixth and ninth in their #6 Honda and #5 Honda, respectively. Andretti Autosport teammate Zach Veach and Marco Andretti (Andretti Herta Autosport) qualified in seventh and 11th in their #26 Honda and #98 Honda, respectively.

Dale Coyne Racing’s Sebastien Bourdais qualified in eighth place in his #18 Honda and Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s Takuma Sato qualified in 10th in his #30 Honda. Chip Ganassi Racing teammates Ed Jones and Scott Dixon, the leader of the championship standings, rounded out the top 13 in 12th and 13th in their #10 Honda and #9 Honda, respectively.

The second and final practice session for the race is scheduled to begin at 4:45 p.m. ET this afternoon, and it is set to be broadcast live on IndyCar RaceControl, the IndyCar mobile app, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. NBC Sports Network is set to broadcast the race itself live starting at 1:30 p.m. ET tomorrow afternoon.

Here are the full qualifying results for the 2018 ABC Supply 500 at Pocono Raceway.

Qualifying Results

1st – Will Power

2nd – Josef Newgarden

3rd – Alexander Rossi

4th – Ryan Hunter-Reay

5th – Simon Pagenaud

6th – Robert Wickens

7th – Zach Veach

8th – Sebastien Bourdais

9th – James Hinchcliffe

10th – Takuma Sato

11th – Marco Andretti

12th – Ed Jones

13th – Scott Dixon

14th – Tony Kanaan

15th – Ed Carpenter

16th – Spencer Pigot

17th – Pietro Fittipaldi

18th – Graham Rahal

19th – Charlie Kimball

20th – Matheus Leist

21st – Max Chilton

22nd – Conor Daly

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Be sure to not to miss the final practice session for the 14th race of the 2018 IndyCar season, the ABC Supply 500, at 4:45 p.m. ET this afternoon, and be sure to tune in to NBC Sports Network tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 p.m. ET for the live broadcast of the race itself.