Ed Carpenter Wins Back-To-Back Indianapolis 500 Pole Positions

Ed Carpenter Will Start On Pole Position for the 98th Indianapolis 500

For the second straight year, Indiana's native son will start on pole position. Ed Carpenter laid down a four-lap average of 231.067 MPH to win pole position for the 98th Indianapolis 500, he is the fastest qualifier. It is Carpenter's third career pole position. James Hinchcliffe qualified second with an average of 230.839 MPH, with Will Power rounding out the front row at 230.697 MPH.

Hélio Castroneves qualified fourth, looking for his fourth Indianapolis 500 victory at 230.649 MPH. Simon Pagenaud qualified in the middle of row two on his 30th birthday at 230.614 MPH. Marco Andretti qualified to Pagenaud's outside at 230.544 MPH.

Carlos Muñoz was the penultimate qualifier and ended up seventh at 230.146 MPH. Former Indy Lights champions Josef Newgarden and JR Hildebrand qualified eighth and ninth respectively.

Juan Pablo Montoya qualified tenth, running the fastest time in group one with a 4-lap average of 231.001 MPH. He was the first to crack a four-lap average over 231 MPH since 2003. Scott Dixon's first lap was over 231 MPH but his four-lap average was 230.928 MPH and he will start eleventh. Kurt Busch qualified twelfth for his Indianapolis 500 debut at 230.782 MPH. Busch will become the first Nevadan to start an IndyCar race.

Jack Hawksworth qualified thirteenth with fellow Brit Justin Wilson qualifying fourteenth. Mikhail Aleshin was the first driver in group one to run a four-lap average over 230 MPH with four laps at 230.049 MPH good enough for fifteenth. Tony Kanaan will defending his Indianapolis 500 victory in sixteenth position directly ahead of the #11 Hydroxycut/Mistic ECig KV Racing Chevrolet also gunning to defend it's Indianapolis 500 victory with Sébastien Bourdais behind the wheel. Oriol Servià qualified eighteenth.

Ryan Hunter-Reay qualified nineteenth after being on the verge of making the Fast Nine yesterday. Graham Rahal was twentieth quickest with Carlos Huertas in twenty-first. Huertas' Dale Coyne Racing teammate Pippa Mann qualified a career best twenty-second for the Indianapolis 500. Takuma Sato was twenty-third with Alex Tagliani twenty-fourth.

Townsend Bell qualified twenty-fifth with his fellow Californian Charlie Kimball in twenty-sixth. Jacques Villeneuve qualified twenty-seventh in his return to the Indianapolis 500. His previous worst Indianapolis 500 start was fifth.

James Davison qualified twenty-eighth for his Indianapolis 500 debut with fellow Indianapolis 500 debutant Martin Plowman in twenty-ninth. Plowman was the slowest Honda. Ryan Briscoe was the slowest Ganassi driver in thirtieth. Ganassi development driver Sage Karam qualified thirty-first on loan to Dreyer and Reinbold Racing. Sebastián Saavedra qualified thirty-second with Buddy Lazier rounding out the thirty-threes car field with a four-lap average of 227.920 MPH.

There will be a practice session tomorrow starting at noon ET and will be five hours in duration.