Will Power won another pole, as he looks to lock up the championship this weekend with a race to go. Mike Conway surprised a few and ended up second but will have to serve a ten grid spot penalty. Other shockers in the top twelve were Bruno Junqueira who qualified tenth for his first race in the DW12 and Ed Carpenter ended up eleventh. The other championship contenders ended up third (Dixon), thirteenth (Hunter-Reay) and sixteenth (Castroneves). Other notables from qualifying are Bourdais in fourth, Franchitti in fifth, Hinchcliffe in sixth, Kanaan in seventh, Briscoe in fourteenth, Barrichello in seventeenth, Andretti in twentieth and Graham Rahal in twenty-third.
The front straightaway and the railroad tracks that intersects it remained a hot topic on day two of the race weekend. After installing a chicane to slow the cars down and prevent them from launching, the problem has yet to be truly solved. At the end of the final practice, JR Hildebrand had the back end step out exiting the chicane. Those caught out by the chicane in qualifying were Graham Rahal and Simon Pagenaud. The series will look to make changes by moving the walls for the race.
Forecast for tomorrow predicts a sixty percent chance of rain but it is most likely the rain may hold off until after the Grand Prix. Coverage for the Grand Prix of Baltimore presented by SRT will begin at noon ET with IndyCar 36, followed by the Lights race at 12:30pm ET and the IndyCar race coverage beginning at 2:00pm ET. Green flag will be around 2:47pm ET.
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