The Team Penske-Chevrolet of Simon Pagenaud grabbed a relatively easy pole position on IMS road course after teammates Will Power and Juan Montoya, and Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon, eliminated themselves early. The second straight pole for dominant championship leader Pagenaud came as a result of a 1min08.6868sec lap, which eclipsed surprise front-row starter Charlie Kimball of Chip Ganassi Racing-Chevrolet by some three-tenths of a second. It marks the fourth pole of Pagenaud's IndyCar career and his second on the bounce. The championship leader has finished no worse than second so far this season. But the story of the event was a sequence of strange incidents in Q2 that saw three...
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