Simon Pagenaud won the pole with a Honda Indy Toronto track-record 58.9124-second lap, the defending series champion's first pole of the season. Graham Rahal's Honda (+0.3121s) broke up what was expected to be a Team Penske logjam at the top, but Helio Castroneves (+0.5221s) and Will Power (+0.6306s) locked out the second row, followed by the Hondas of Scott Dixon (+0.8846s) and James Hinchcliffe, matching his best career start at Toronto. All but Hinchcliffe ran laps under 60 seconds. "It was a really good lap, one of the best I’ve ever put together,” Pagenaud said. "There’s not much more in it. But the whole qualifying, I worked on the details and driving, my teammates,...
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