Photo by Kyle McInnes

What an incredible four weeks Alex Palou has had. He won the GMR Grand Prix, followed that the next weekend with the pole for the Indianapolis 500, came back after a pit incident to finish fourth, and today he wins the pole for tomorrow’s Detroit Grand Prix. Palou’s lap of 1:01.8592 beat Scott McLaughlin by three tenths of a second.Palou has now won a polreon each of the types of tracks Indycar runs on- an oval, a road course, and a street course.

Despite he carnage in the two practice sessions, qualifying was relatively clean with just a few light wall types. The only major issues came in the second round when Kyle kirkwood tore left front wheel off his car after hitting the wall. kirkwood will start 121th.

Andretti Autosport, which had won poles in theother two street course to date, only had one Fast Six representative. Romain Grosjean will start third. Colton Herta has struggled so far this weekend and will start 24th.

The Rahal team continues to lag. Graham Rahal will start 27th. Christian Lundgaard admitted the team is just not fast.

Someone to watch tomorrow is Simon Pagenaud. He starts eighth and has looked good every time out the last two days.

Notes

We are nearly halfway thriough the season and Will Power has yet to win a pole.

Chip Ganassi Racing has qualifying figured out. Team Penske is starting to catch up to them.

I never thought I’d miss Belle Isle. The past few years it had turned into a racy track. Will this course take 10 years to create a decent show?

Results

1. (10) Alex Palou, Honda, 01:01.8592 (95.734) 2. (3) Scott McLaughlin, Chevrolet, 01:02.1592 (95.271) 3. (28) Romain Grosjean, Honda, 01:02.2896 (95.072) 4. (9) Scott Dixon, Honda, 01:02.4272 (94.862) 5. (2) Josef Newgarden, Chevrolet, 01:02.5223 (94.718) 6. (8) Marcus Ericsson, Honda, 01:02.6184 (94.573) 7. (12) Will Power, Chevrolet, 01:02.1817 (95.237) 8. (60) Simon Pagenaud, Honda, 01:02.1860 (95.230) 9. (6) Felix Rosenqvist, Chevrolet, 01:02.1937 (95.219) 10. (5) Pato O’Ward, Chevrolet, 01:02.2564 (95.123) 11. (11) Marcus Armstrong, Honda, 01:02.2958 (95.063) 12. (27) Kyle Kirkwood, Honda, 01:04.6075 (91.661) 13. (7) Alexander Rossi, Chevrolet, 01:02.5714 (94.644) 14. (21) Rinus VeeKay, Chevrolet, 01:02.1911 (95.223) 15. (20) Conor Daly, Chevrolet, 01:02.9522 (94.071) 16. (77) Callum Ilott, Chevrolet, 01:02.2644 (95.111) 17. (29) Devlin DeFrancesco, Honda, 01:03.0017 (93.997) 18. (45) Christian Lundgaard, Honda, 01:02.6495 (94.526) 19. (55) Benjamin Pedersen, Chevrolet, 01:03.1599 (93.762) 20. (78) Agustin Canapino, Chevrolet, 01:02.9071 (94.139) 21. (18) David Malukas, Honda, 01:03.2126 (93.684) 22. (14) Santino Ferrucci, Chevrolet, 01:02.9589 (94.061) 23. (06) Helio Castroneves, Honda, 01:03.3879 (93.425) 24. (26) Colton Herta, Honda, 01:03.4165 (93.383) 25. (30) Jack Harvey, Honda, 01:03.7728 (92.861) 26. (51) Sting Ray Robb, Honda, 01:03.7496 (92.895) 27. (15) Graham Rahal, Honda, 01:03.8663 (92.725)