Power Wins Second Consecutive Texas Pole Position

Points Leader Will Power Wins Pole For Texas

For the second consecutive year Will Power will lead the field to the green flag at Texas Motor Speedway. The Australian won his thirty-fourth career pole with a two lap average of 218.896 MPH. Joining Power on the front row is Josef Newgarden of Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing. This will be Newgarden's best career start on an oval. The Tennessean was over a full mile per hour off Power with an average of 217.835 over two laps Tony Kanaan qualified third with Juan Pablo Montoya in fourth. Ed Carpenter made it four Chevrolets in the top five.

Simon Pagenaud qualified sixth with Scott Dixon in seventh position. Winner of the 2012 Texas race Justin Wilson qualified on the outside of row four at 217.007 MPH. James Hinchcliffe was the top qualifying Andretti Autosport's driver in ninth with his rookie teammate Carlos Muñoz rounding out the top ten at 216.960 MPH.

Fellowing Muñoz is his fellow rookie Mikhail Aleshin in eleventh. Joining him on row six will be Ryan Hunter-Reay who looks to make up ground after a disastrous weekend at Belle Isle. Ryan Briscoe qualified thirteenth. Briscoe's worst finish at Texas is 12th place which came in his first start at the track in 2005 in his first stint for Ganassi. His former teammate and defending Texas winner Hélio Castroneves qualified fourteenth. Charlie Kimball rounded out the top fifteen.

Takuma Sato will Kimball on row eight. Marco Andretti qualified seventeenth with Sébastien Bourdais in eighteenth. Following Bourdais is his KV teammate Sebastián Saavedra. Jack Hawksworth rounds out the top twenty with second place from Belle Isle race one Graham Rahal and Carlos Huertas rounding out the field in twenty-second position with a two-lap average of 212.191 MPH.

IndyCar final practice will take place at 7:45 p.m. ET and tomorrow's coverage of the Firestone 600 from Texas Motor Speedway begins at 8:00 p.m. on NBCSN.