Marco Andretti and Tony Kanaan were one-two again at Pocono Raceway as Andretti reset fastest lap of the weekend with a 40.5620 (221.883 MPH). Kanaan was 0.1953 seconds back. The Hondas of Charlie Kimball and Simon Pagenaud took the next two positions on the timesheet with points leader Helio Castroneves in fifth.
Scott Dixon was sixth ahead of Long Beach winner Takuma Sato. Will Power and James Hinchcliffe were eighth and ninth. Power brought out a yellow flag after stopping on course with what appeared to be an electrical problem. Bryan Herta Autosport's Alex Tagliani made a surprise appearance rounding out the top ten. Defending champion Ryan Hunter-Reay was eleventh.
Rookie Tristan Vautier was twelfth fastest ahead of EJ Viso and Simona de Silvestro. Josef Newgarden rounded out the top fifteen ahead of two four-time champions, Dario Franchitti and Sébastien Bourdais. Pippa Mann was eighteenth. Indianapolis 500 pole-sitter Ed Carpenter was nineteenth ahead of fellow Chevrolet driver Sebastián Saavedra. Former Dale Coyne teammates Justin Wilson and James Jakes were twenty-first and twenty-second respectively with Jakes current teammate Graham Rahal rounding out the field in twenty-third.
After a Chevrolet dominated test on Thursday, Chevrolet only took eleven of the top twenty positions with the neither manufacture have more than two consecutive cars on the timesheet. The top thirteen times were covered by 0.4411 seconds with the top twenty covered by 0.7568 seconds and the whole field covered by 0.9026 seconds. The #4 National Guard Chevrolet of Panther Racing and Ryan Briscoe did not make a lap as Briscoe is in Lime Rock Park for the American Le Mans Series race. The team will not participate in qualifying either and start at the back for Sunday's four hundred mile race.
Qualifying for the Pocono Indy 400 Fueled by Sunoco will take place at 1:15 p.m. ET.
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