Team Penske driver Simon Pagenaud will start the first race of the Dual in Detroit on Saturday at the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix.
Pagenaud won the pole with a time of 1 minute, 14.9166 seconds, which is over one second faster than last year's track record of 1 minute, 16.0941 seconds.
It was a fast day of qualifying for many drivers, and Helio Castroneves set the track record with a time of 1 minute, 14.6899 seconds.
Team Penske also swept the top three positions, with Castroneves and Juan Pablo Montoya finishing second and third respectively.
The entire qualifying order is below:
- Simon Pagenaud
- Helio Castroneves
- Juan Pablo Montoya
- James Hinchcliffe
- Carlos Munoz
- Scott Dixon
- Tony Kanaan
- Charlie Kimball
- Will Power
- Graham Rahal
- Takuma Sato
- Mikhail Aleshin
- Sebastien Bourdais
- Josef Newgarden
- Ryan Hunter-Reay
- Conor Daly
- Alexander Rossi
- Max Chilton
- Marco Andretti
- Gabby Chaves
- Spencer Pigot
- Jack Hawksworth
