The quartet has its own scheduled Sunday shootout in which three of them will make the field of 33 and one driver will go home. Ultimately, Rahal, Harvey and Lundgaard joined Sting Ray Robb as the slowest four drivers of the day.

Legge, the only woman entered in the May 28 field, was clearly the fastest of the Rahal cars and the team was desperate at the end of the day. As Graham Rahal, Christian Lundgaard and Jack Harvey slogged their way around the speedway, the team made a late-day adjustment to move the setup from Katherine Legge’s car onto the other three. Team Penske had it easy, though, compared to a panicked Rahal Letterman Lanigan organization. The first four rows of the field will be set Sunday in a final round of qualifying for the fastest 12 drivers. “We really went aggressive, as aggressive as you can go, and it just wasn’t there.” “Unfortunately that’s just what we had,” Newgarden said. McLaughlin will start the Indy 500 from 14th, three spots ahead of Newgarden, who did pull his time late in a last-ditch attempt to crack the top 12. Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin never put together a strong enough four-lap average run to move them up through the field. He was 10th at the time but stuck in a long line of traffic as drivers not inside the top 12 debated pulling their times and taking another shot at logging four fast laps around the historic 2.5-mile oval.Ĭonversely, Team Penske struggled mightily and only reigning Ind圜ar champion Will Power advanced into the top 12. Ganassi also landed all four of its drivers inside the top 12, but as the clock ticked down, defending race winner Marcus Ericsson stood on pit lane unsure if he should make another qualifying attempt. When the gun fired to signal the end of the day, all four McLaren drivers were inside the top 12 and advanced into Sunday’s shootout for the pole. We are definitely looking good right now.”

Just a fun time to be in an Arrow McLaren. “It was pretty mind blowing how we found so much speed,” Rosenqvist said. He bumped new teammate Alexander Rossi from the top spot - a position he’d held nearly six hours.

His late afternoon run of 233.947 mph was the third fastest four-lap qualifying effort in race history. Felix Rosenqvist, a former Chip Ganassi Racing driver, no less, led the McLaren charge Saturday by posting the fastest four-lap average.

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