IndyCar: 2021 Road America qualifying – Full starting lineup
By Asher Fair
The starting lineup for the ninth race of the 2021 IndyCar season, the REV Group Grand Prix at Road America, is set following an exciting qualifying session.
Team Penske still seek their first win of the 2021 IndyCar season after eight races, but they put together quite an effort in qualifying for the season’s ninth event, the REV Group Grand Prix at Road America.
For the second consecutive race, Josef Newgarden, who won at Road America back in June 2018, took the pole position, and two of his three teammates joined him in the Firestone Fast Six.
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Newgarden took the pole position for this 55-lap race around the 14-turn, 4.048-mile (6.515-kilometer) natural terrain road course in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin by recording a top lap time of 106.0186 seconds (136.301 miles per hour) in the Firestone Fast Six qualifying session behind the wheel of his #2 Chevrolet.
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Team Penske teammates Will Power and Simon Pagenaud qualified in fourth and sixth place behind the wheels of their #12 Chevrolet and #22 Chevrolet, respectively.
Set to start alongside Newgarden on the front row is Andretti Autosport’s Colton Herta in second place behind the wheel of his #26 Honda. Set to start alongside Power on the second row is Meyer Shank Racing’s Jack Harvey in third behind the wheel of his #60 Honda, and set to start alongside Pagenaud on the third row is Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou in fifth behind the wheel of his #10 Honda.
Points leader Pato O’Ward of Arrow McLaren SP is set to start in 10th place behind the wheel of his #5 Chevrolet. His former teammate, Oliver Askew, is replacing the injured Rinus VeeKay at Ed Carpenter Racing behind the wheel of the #21 Chevrolet this weekend, and he qualified in 16th.
Two drivers are making their IndyCar debuts this weekend: Kevin Magnussen, who is replacing the injured Felix Rosenqvist at Arrow McLaren SP behind the wheel of the #7 Chevrolet, and Cody Ware, who is in an extra car for Dale Coyne Racing with Rick Ware Racing, the #52 Honda. Magnussen qualified in 21st place while Ware qualified in 25th (last).
Here is the full starting lineup for the 2021 REV Group Grand Prix at Road America.
Starting Lineup
1st – Josef Newgarden
2nd – Colton Herta
3rd – Jack Harvey
4th – Will Power
5th – Alex Palou
6th – Simon Pagenaud
7th – Romain Grosjean
8th – Ryan Hunter-Reay
9th – Alexander Rossi
10th – Pato O’Ward
11th – Sebastien Bourdais
12th – Ed Jones
13th – Scott Dixon
14th – Graham Rahal
15th – Conor Daly
16th – Oliver Askew
17th – Scott McLaughlin
18th – Marcus Ericsson
19th – James Hinchcliffe
20th – Takuma Sato
21st – Kevin Magnussen
22nd – Max Chilton
23rd – Jimmie Johnson
24th – Dalton Kellett
25th – Cody Ware
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Be sure to tune in to NBC Sports Network tomorrow afternoon at 12:00 p.m. ET for the live broadcast of the REV Group Grand Prix at Road America.