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| Will Power will lead the field to the green flag tomorrow afternoon. |
Ryan Hunter-Reay qualified third, just a little over a tenth back of Power. Josef Newgarden qualified fourth for the second consecutive race. Last year's championship-battling duo of Scott Dixon and Helio Castroneves will start on row three. Dixon continues his streak of starting every Barber race in the top five.
Carlos Muñoz was the top rookie in seventh while fellow Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya joins him on row four after making his first career Fast Twelve appearance. Marco Andretti gave Andretti Autosport perfect attendance in the top ten by qualifying ninth. Simon Pagenaud rounds out the top ten, giving Honda a 6-4 advantage over Chevrolet. Mikhal Aleshin advanced to the Fast Twelve for the first time in his career and will start eleventh Sébastien Bourdais will start twelfth.
Sebastián Saavedra will start behind his KV teammate in thirteenth with Takuma Sato joining him on row seven. Carlos Huertas qualified fifteenth and will be joined on row eight by his Dale Coyne teammate Justin Wilson. Charlie Kimball qualified seventeenth and his former teammate Graham Rahal will join him on row nine. The will be followed by teammates as Oriol Servià qualified nineteenth and Ryan Briscoe qualified twentieth.
Mike Conway was the slowest in group one and will start twenty-first. He will be joined by fellow Brit Jack Hawksworth on row eleven. Tony Kanaan will round out the field in twenty-third position.
This is Will Power's 33rd career pole position and first since last year's season finale at Fontana.
NBCSN's Coverage for the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama begins at 2:30 p.m. ET with green flag at 3:12 p.m. ET.
