Texas Motor Speedway - kvalifikation
Frisk fra sin pole position på Indianapolis Motor Speedway i forbindelse med Indy 500 løbet, kørte Sam Schmidt Motorsports teamets Alex Tagliani sig i nat til pole position på Texas Motor Speedway, som han rundede med en gennemsnitsfart på 215,186 miles i timen, det er cirka 350 kilometer i timen!
På de to efterfølgende pladser kom først Dario Franchitti Ganassi fra Ganassi teamet, og bag ham Penske Racing køreren Will Power der var hurtigst i den 1. fri træning.

Kvalifikationstiderne fra Texas Motor Speedway:

Pl.	Kører	Team	Tid
1	Alex Tagliani	Sam Schmidt Motorsports	00:48,683
2	Dario Franchitti	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	00:48,770
3	Will Power	Team Penske	00:48,790
4	Takuma Sato	KV Racing	00:48,846
5	Ed Carpenter	Sarah Fisher Racing	00:48,868
6	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing	00:48,895
7	Scott Dixon	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	00:48,948
8	Wade Cunningham	Sam Schmidt Motorsports	00:48,950
9	Ryan Briscoe	Team Penske	00:48,978
10	Danica Patrick	Andretti Autosport	00:48,987
11	J.R. Hildebrand	Panther Racing	00:49,077
12	Vitor Meira	A.J. Foyt Racing	00:49,084
13	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske	00:49,129
14	Oriol Servia	Newman/Haas Racing	00:49,177
15	James Hinchcliffe	Newman/Haas Racing	00:49,190
16	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	00:49,197
17	Charlie Kimball	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	00:49,230
18	Davey Hamilton	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	00:49,286
19	Ernesto Viso	KV Racing	00:49,300
20	Graham Rahal	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	00:49,321
21	Paul Tracy	Dragon Racing	00:49,344
22	Mike Conway	Andretti Autosport	00:49,354
23	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	00:49,363
24	Ana Beatriz	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	00:49,363
25	Alex Lloyd	Dale Coyne Racing	00:49,394
26	Sebastian Saavedra	Conquest Racing	00:49,407
27	Justin Wilson	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	00:49,470
28	Jay Howard	Sam Schmidt Motorsports	00:49,487
29	Simona de Silvestro	HVM Racing	00:49,683
30	James Jakes	Dale Coyne Racing	No time

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