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Andretti outduels Dixon for Indy 500 pole
It came down to the last driver and last lap. Scott Dixon couldn't watch and Marco Andretti couldn't lift. As it turned out, Andretti executed perfectly to snatch the pole position from Dixon for the 104th Indianapolis 500 in one of the more dramatic endings to qualifying. The third generation driver's four-lap average of 231.068mph in his US Concrete No. 98 Honda just pipped Dixon's 213.051mph run in the PNC Bank No. 9 Honda and that was the third closest margin in IMS history — 0.017 of a second for 10 miles. The five closest Indy 500 poles (data courtesy of Russ Thompson): YEAR POLE SPEED 2ND DIFF. POLE WINNER 2ND QUALIFIER 2012 226.484 226.481 0.003 Ryan Briscoe James Hinchcliffe...
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