Power Parks on Pole, Chevy Rules

By Rick Sassone on March 24, 2012

This is the view the other 25 drivers will get of Will Power in his Verizon #12 (photo by Rodney Meyering)

St. Petersburg, Fla. – Will Power set the best time today on the streets of St. Petersburg and will sit on the pole. His time of 1.013721 was a track record.

But the big qualifying story the top five qualifiers were all Chevy engines with Honda ranking only three in the top ten. This makes me wonder, will it be called the

It takes "Will-Power" to set the pole at St. Petersburg (Photo by Rodney Meyering)

Chevy Grand Prix of St. Petersburg next year?

This is the second year in a row which mark a major rule change in the IZOD IndyCar Series. Last year you may recall it was “double file restart mayhem.” This year a rebuilt car with three different engine manufacturers Chevy, Honda and Lotus.

Ryan Briscoe finished just .16 seconds behind teammate Power making it an all Penske front row. This gives series sponsor IZOD a great photo op as Briscoe drives the house car. (Photo by Rodney Meyering)

RANK	#			ENGINE	TIME
1	12	Will	Power	C	1.01.3721
2	2	Ryan	Briscoe	C	1.01.5357
3	28	Ryan	Hunter-Reay	C	1.01.9321
4	27	James	Hinchliffe	C	1.01.9701
5	3	Helio	Castroneves	C	1.01.9987
6	77	Simon	Pagenaud	H	1.02.1095
7	9	Scott	Dixon	H	1.01.7636
8	26	Marco	Andretti	C	1.01.7895
9	11	Tony	Kanaan	C	1.01.8699
10	10	Dario	Franchitti	H	1.01.9570
11	38	Graham	Rahal	H	1.02.0233
12	14	Mike	Conway	H	1.02.5084
13	5	EJ	Viso	C	1.02.5146
14	8	Rubens	Barrichello	C	1.02.2009
15	15	Takuma	Sato	H	1.02.6015
16	18	Justin	Wilson	H	1.02.2538
17	98	Alex	Tagliani	L	1.02.6506
18	4	JR	Hilebrand	C	1.02.4426
19	67	Josef	Newgarden	H	1.02.7155
20	19	James	Jakes	H	1.02.5271
21	78	Simona	de Silvestro	L	1.02.8218
22	83	Charlie	Kimball	H	1.03.0437
23	22	Oriol	Servia	L	1.02.8771
24	20	Ed	Carpenter	C	1.03.3591
25	6	Katherine	Legge	L	1.04.1654
26	7	Sebastien	Bourdais	L	1.05.6858