Oriol Servia set the fastest time in final qualifying to guarantee Schmidt Peterson Motorsports-Honda will have three cars in the top 10 for the 100th Running of the Indy 500. The Catalan set three laps over 229mph and one 228, to clear the rest of the field by 0.6mph and display a consistency lacking in his runs yesterday. Expected challenges from Andretti Autosport-Honda’s Marco Andretti and Alexander Rossi and Team Penske-Chevrolet’s Juan Pablo Montoya failed to materialize for a variety of reasons. Talk of the session was the strange incident that happened to Montoya who hit a black trash bag on his third lap, which understandably put him off his game. IndyCar granted him a second...
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