IndyCar: 2021 St. Petersburg qualifying – Full starting lineup

The starting lineup for the 2021 IndyCar season’s second race, the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, is set following an intense qualifying session.

After an exciting opening weekend of the 2021 IndyCar season at Barber Motorsports Park last weekend, the parity throughout America’s top open-wheel racing series continued into the qualifying session for round number two on the streets of St. Petersburg Florida.

An intense qualifying session for the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg saw Andretti Autosport’s Colton Herta take the pole position for tomorrow afternoon’s race.

Herta took the pole position for this 100-lap race around the 14-turn, 1.8-mile (2.897-kilometer) temporary street circuit on the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida by recording a top lap time of 60.3210 seconds (107.425 miles per hour) behind the wheel of his #26 Honda in the Firestone Fast Six qualifying session.

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Meyer Shank Racing, which have a technical alliance with Andretti Autosport, matched their best ever qualifying result with Jack Harvey in second place behind the wheel of the #60 Honda, giving Honda a front row sweep.

Chevrolet occupied the remainder of the Firestone Fast Six, with Team Penske teammates Josef Newgarden and Simon Pagenaud qualifying in third and fourth place behind the wheels of their #2 Chevrolet and #22 Chevrolet, respectively, ahead of Arrow McLaren SP’s Pato O’Ward in fifth behind the wheel of his #5 Chevrolet and A.J. Foyt Enterprises’ Sebastien Bourdais in sixth behind the wheel of his #14 Chevrolet.

Season-opening winner Alex Palou of Chip Ganassi Racing qualified in 10th place behind the wheel of his #10 Honda.

Eight-time St. Petersburg polesitter Will Power of Team Penske had a very disappointing qualifying session, qualifying back in 20th place behind the wheel of his #12 Chevrolet and capping off his run with a spin coming to the timing and scoring line for the final time.

Here is the full starting lineup for the 2021 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida.

Starting lineup
1st – Colton Herta
2nd – Jack Harvey
3rd – Josef Newgarden
4th – Simon Pagenaud
5th – Pato O’Ward
6th – Sebastien Bourdais
7th – Rinus VeeKay
8th – Scott Dixon
9th – Graham Rahal
10th – Alex Palou
11th – Alexander Rossi
12th – James Hinchcliffe
13th – Ryan Hunter-Reay
14th – Scott McLaughlin
15th – Takuma Sato
16th – Marcus Ericsson
17th – Felix Rosenqvist
18th – Romain Grosjean
19th – Conor Daly
20th – Will Power
21st – Ed Jones
22nd – Max Chilton
23rd – Jimmie Johnson
24th – Dalton Kellett

Tune in to NBC at 12:00 p.m. ET tomorrow afternoon for the live broadcast of the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg from the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida.