Tomorrow, they’ll drop the green flag on the first race of the 2021 Indycar Series season. Today, several rounds of qualifying are on deck for Barber Motorsports Park.
View the 2021 Indycar starting lineup for Barber Motorsports Park below.
F1 star Romain Grosjean and NASCAR star Jimmie Johnson are entering there debut for the NTT Indycar Series.
Indycar Qualifying
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James Hinchcliffe locks up the wheels under braking and finds the barriers in round one Indycar qualifying. Jimmie Johnson’s goal was to not qualify last, he’s done that as he’s 11th of the 12 cars in group one.
Alex Palou has been fast all day. He’s fastest at the end of group 1.
Round 1 – Group 1 (Advancing) : Alex Palou (1:05.9032), Power, Newgarden, McLaughlin, Ericsson, Harvey.
Round 1 – Group 1 (Eliminated) : Jones, Pagenaud, Hunter-Reay, Sato, Johnson, Kellett.
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Felix Rosenqvist set a time good enough to advance. However, he was involved in an incident. Per the rules, he will not be allowed to advance out of this round. Herta will take his spot.
Pato O’Ward used every inch of the track to take the top spot in Group 2. Grosjean advances to round two in his debut.
Round 1 – Group 2 (Advancing) : Pato O’Ward (1:06.06), Grosjean, Daly, Rossi, Dixon, Herta.
Round 1 – Group 2 (Eliminated) : VeeKay, Bourdais, Rahal, Chilton, Rosenqvist Hinchcliffe.
Round 2
12 total cars have advanced into Round 2. The top 6 transfer.
Grosjean jumped to the top of the board early in round two. However, five more cars went faster than him toward the end of the session. Grosjean fails to advance into round three but he’ll start 7th tomorrow.
Pato O’Ward tops the times sheet following round two. He turned a 1:05.5019. That’s a track qualifying record at Barber.
Round 2 – (Advancing) : O’Ward, Power, Palou, Ericsson, Dixon, Rossi.
Round 2 – (Eliminated) : Grosjean, Newgarden, Herta, Daly, Harvey, McLaughlin.
Round 3
Power and Rossi get on track early while the other four wait it out.
In the closing seconds of the session, Pato O’Ward jumps to the top of the Board. Pato O’Ward will start from the pole position at Barber Motorsports Park!
Barber Motorsports Park
Starting Grid
NTT Indycar Series
April 18, 2021
Pos | Driver | Best Time in Final Round
1. Pato O’Ward
1:05.8479
2. Alexander Rossi
1:05.9177
3. Alex Palou
1:06.0538
4. Will Power
1:06.1186
5. Scott Dixon
1:06.3976
6. Marcus Aricsson
1:06.4102
7. Romain Grosjean
1:05.7643
8. Josef Newgarden
1:05.7902
9. Colton Herta
1:05.7957
10. Conor Daly
1:05.9118
11. Jack Harvey
1:05.9634
12. Scott McLaughlin
1:06.7226
13. Ed Jones
1:06.558
14. Rinus VeeKay
1:06.477
15. Simon Pagenaud
1:06.648
16. Sebastien Bourdais
1:06.504
17. Ryan Hunter-Reay
1:06.851
18. Graham Rahal
1:06.849
19. Takuma Sato
1:07.103
20. Max Chilton
1:07.002
21. Jimmie Johnson
1:07.709
22. Felix Rosenqvist
1:07.025
23. Dalton Kellett
1:07.810
24. James Hinchcliffe
1:40.000
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