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Power on pole at Edmonton

24 July 2010

Will Power will start Sunday´s Honda Indy Edmonton from pole position as he managed to quailfy ahead of team-mate Helio Castroneves. 2008 winner Scott Dixon will start the race from third.

Power earned his sixth PEAK Performance Pole Award of the season (the fifth on road/street courses), slipping past Castroneves by 0.0765 of a second in the Firestone Fast Six session on the 1.973-mile, 14-turn City Centre Airport course.

“It’s awesome to get the Verizon car on the pole again,” said Power, who won the race last July from the pole. “All the points count and I know here it’s important to be at the front because it is tough to pass. If all the strategy goes well, like it did last year, it makes it easier to win. It’s a long day tomorrow. We have a good starting spot and we have to keep going to win this championship.”

Scott Dixon, the 2008 race winner, in the No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car had a best lap of 1:01.2395 in the Firestone Fast Six and will start next to teammate Dario Franchitti (1:01.2481) on Row 2. Briscoe (1:01.3799) and E.J. Viso, making his first appearance in the Firestone Fast Six this season in the No. 8 PDVSA KV Racing Technology car (1:01.6122), will be on the third row.

“We felt we could do this kind of performance all season, but we had so many obstacles early in the season,” said Viso, in his third year in the series. “Now I feel we are in position to do this all of the time. After Iowa (where he finished third), things are changing in our direction.”

Rookie Simona de Silvestro will start a season-high seventh in the No. 78 Team Stargate Worlds/HVM Racing car, and Andretti Autosport’s Ryan Hunter-Reay also will be on Row 4 in the No. 37 IZOD entry.


Sunday's race begins at 4pm local time (BST -7)

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