IndyCar: 2019 Indy 500 - Spencer Pigot tops Saturday qualifying

Spencer Pigot topped the speed chart in the Saturday qualifying session for the 2019 Indy 500, the crown jewel race on the IndyCar schedule.

Ed Carpenter Racing’s Spencer Pigot topped the speed chart in the Saturday qualifying session for the 2019 IndyCar season’s sixth race, the 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500, at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with his lone qualifying attempt of the day, which he made early in the day. In fact, he was the second driver who made a qualifying attempt.

Pigot recorded a four-lap average speed of 230.083 miles per hour around the four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana in his #21 Chevrolet, which was just 0.002 miles per hour quicker than the four-lap average speed of Team Penske’s Will Power.

Power finished the qualifying session in second place after recording a four-lap average speed of 230.081 miles per hour in his #12 Chevrolet. Team Penske teammates Simon Pagenaud and Josef Newgarden finished in third and fourth in their #22 Chevrolet and #2 Chevrolet, respectively.

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Harding Steinbrenner Racing rookie Colton Herta was the fastest Honda driver of this qualifying session. He finished in fifth place in his #88 Honda.

Weather permitting, the four drivers who are set to join these five drivers in tomorrow’s Pole Day qualifying session, the Fast Nine Shootout, are Ed Carpenter Racing Scuderia Corsa’s Ed Jones, Ed Carpenter Racing’s Ed Carpenter, Andretti Autosport’s Alexander Rossi and Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan’s Sebastien Bourdais. These four drivers finished today’s qualifying session in sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth place in their #63 Chevrolet, #20 Chevrolet, #27 Honda and #18 Honda, respectively.

If tomorrow’s Pole Day qualifying session gets rained out, these drivers are set to start the race in the top nine in their respective positions from today’s session.

Andretti Herta Autosport’s Marco Andretti was the fastest driver of this qualifying session who did not lock himself into the Fast Nine Shootout. He finished in 10th place in his #98 Honda and is set to start the race in 10th.

The 20 drivers who finished this qualifying session from 11th through 30th place are set to start the race in their respective positions from today’s session. Meanwhile, the drivers who finished this session from 31st through 36th are set to battle for the three starting positions on the 11th and final row of the starting grid in tomorrow’s Bump Day qualifying session.

Here are the full qualifying results of the Saturday qualifying session for the 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Rank – Driver – Car, Team, Engine – Speed (miles per hour)
1st – Spencer Pigot – #21, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet – 230.083
2nd – Will Power – #12, Team Penske, Chevrolet – 230.081
3rd – Simon Pagenaud – #22, Team Penske, Chevrolet – 229.854
4th – Josef Newgarden – #2, Team Penske, Chevrolet – 229.749
5th – Colton Herta – #88, Harding Steinbrenner Racing, Honda – 229.478
6th – Ed Jones – #63, Ed Carpenter Racing Scuderia Corsa, Chevrolet – 229.44
7th – Ed Carpenter – #20, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet – 229.349
8th – Alexander Rossi – #27, Andretti Autosport, Honda – 229.268
9th – Sebastien Bourdais – #18, DCR with Vasser-Sullivan, Honda – 228.8
10th – Marco Andretti – #98, Andretti Herta Autosport, Honda – 228.756
11th – Conor Daly – #25, Andretti Autosport, Honda – 228.617
12th – Helio Castroneves – #3, Team Penske, Chevrolet – 228.523
13th – Marcus Ericsson – #7, Arrow SPM, Honda – 228.511
14th – Takuma Sato – #30, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda – 228.3
15th – James Davison – #33, DCR with Byrd-Hollinger-Belardi, Honda – 228.273
16th – Tony Kanaan – #14, A.J. Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet – 228.12
17th – Graham Rahal – #15, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda – 228.104
18th – Scott Dixon – #9, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda – 228.1
19th – Oriol Servia – #77, Team Stange Racing with Arrow SPM, Honda – 227.991
20th – Charlie Kimball – #23, Carlin, Chevrolet – 227.915
21st – J.R. Hildebrand – #48, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, Chevrolet – 227.908
22nd – Ryan Hunter-Reay – #28, Andretti Autosport, Honda – 227.877
23rd – Santino Ferrucci – #19, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda – 227.731
24th – Matheus Leist – #4, A.J. Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet – 227.717
25th – Jack Harvey – #60, Meyer Shank Racing with Arrow SPM, Honda – 227.695
26th – Jordan King – #42, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda – 227.502
27th – Ben Hanley – #81, DragonSpeed, Chevrolet – 227.482
28th – Zach Veach – #26, Andretti Autosport, Honda – 227.341
29th – Felix Rosenqvist – #10, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda – 227.297
30th – Pippa Mann – #39, Clauson-Marshall Racing, Chevrolet – 227.244
31st – Fernando Alonso – #66, McLaren Racing, Chevrolet – 227.224
32nd – James Hinchcliffe – #5, Arrow SPM, Honda – 226.956
33rd – Sage Karam – #24, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, Chevrolet – 226.951
34th – Patricio O’Ward – #31, Carlin, Chevrolet – 226.897
35th – Max Chilton – #59, Carlin, Chevrolet – 226.321
36th – Kyle Kaiser – #32, Juncos Racing, Chevrolet – 0

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Tomorrow’s qualifying sessions for the 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500, the Bump Day qualifying session and the Pole Day qualifying session, the Fast Nine Shootout, are scheduled to take place from 12:15 p.m. ET to 1:15 p.m. ET and 1:15 p.m. ET to 2:15 p.m. ET, respectively.

NBC is set to broadcast both of these qualifying sessions live from Indianapolis Motor Speedway from 12:00 p.m. ET to 3:00 p.m. ET, although bad weather could potentially affect when (or if) these sessions take place.

IndyCar: 2019 Indy 500 – Spencer Pigot tops Saturday qualifying

By Asher Fair | May 18, 2019

Spencer Pigot topped the speed chart in the Saturday qualifying session for the 2019 Indy 500, the crown jewel race on the IndyCar schedule.