IndyCar: Josef Newgarden takes pole for 2019 Bommarito Automotive Group 500

Josef Newgarden took the pole position for the final oval race and the 15th overall race on the 2019 IndyCar schedule, the Bommarito Automotive Group 500, at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway.

Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden leads the IndyCar championship standings and is set to lead the field to the green flag for the fifth and final oval race on the 17-race 2019 IndyCar schedule at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway, the Bommarito Automotive Group 500.

Newgarden took the pole position for this 248-lap race around the four-turn, 1.25-mile (2.012-kilometer) World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway oval in Madison, Illinois by recording at two-lap average speed of 186.5076 miles per hour (48.2554 seconds) in his #2 Chevrolet in the single-car qualifying session for this race.

This pole position is Newgarden’s series-high third pole position of the season, but it is the second that he has earned, as he started from the pole position in last Sunday’s race at Pocono Raceway after the qualifying session for this race was rained out.

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Set to start alongside Newgarden on the front row in a season-high second place is Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan’s Sebastien Bourdais in his #18 Honda. Team Penske teammates Will Power and Simon Pagenaud are set to share the second row in third and fourth in their #12 Chevrolet and #22 Chevrolet, respectively.

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s Takuma Sato and Dale Coyne Racing rookie Santino Ferrucci are set to shared the third row in fifth and a career-high sixth place in their #30 Honda and #19 Honda, respectively, ahead of Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports’ James Hinchcliffe and Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon on the fourth row in seventh and eighth in their #5 Honda and #9 Honda, respectively.

Set to round out the top 10 by starting on the fifth row are Andretti Autosport’s Ryan Hunter-Reay and Chip Ganassi Racing rookie Felix Rosenqvist in ninth and 10th place in their #28 Honda and #10 Honda, respectively.

Andretti Autosport’s Alexander Rossi, who runs second to Newgarden in the championship battle, is set to start in 11th place in his #27 Honda. Ed Carpenter Racing’s Spencer Pigot was the highest qualifying non-Team Penske Chevrolet driver for this race. He qualified in 13th in his #21 Chevrolet.

Here are the full qualifying results for the 2019 Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway.

Qualifying Results
1st – Josef Newgarden
2nd – Sebastien Bourdais
3rd – Will Power
4th – Simon Pagenaud
5th – Takuma Sato
6th – Santino Ferrucci
7th – James Hinchcliffe
8th – Scott Dixon
9th – Ryan Hunter-Reay
10th – Felix Rosenqvist
11th – Alexander Rossi
12th – Colton Herta
13th – Spencer Pigot
14th – Marcus Ericsson
15th – Zach Veach
16th – Graham Rahal
17th – Ed Carpenter
18th – Conor Daly
19th – Charlie Kimball
20th – Tony Kanaan
21st – Matheus Leist
22nd – Marco Andretti

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The green flag is set to fly to get the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 underway tomorrow evening at 8:45 p.m. ET. NBC Sports Network’s live broadcast of this race, which is the 15th of 17 races on the 2019 IndyCar schedule, from World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway is set to begin at 8:00 p.m. ET.