While the McLaren of Formula 1 ‘cries’ following the disappointing qualifying of the Bahrain Grand Prix, the British team can however console themselves with the overseas performance in IndyCar of Felix Rosenqvistauthor of a historic result for the Woking house: the 30-year-old Swede has in fact conquered the pole position on the circuit of Texas Motor Speedway, the scene of the second round on the calendar of the 2022 season. A not entirely common outcome for McLaren, which thanks to this performance regained a start at the pole in the American top flight for the first time in three years. The Scandinavian, in turn author of the first pole of his career on an oval – the second overall in his career – had to wait with bated breath for the feedback of sixteen drivers after him, who however failed to beat his average speed on two turns, calculated in 355.842 km / h.
The new format, which establishes the starting grid on the basis of speeds, thus rewarded Rosenqvist, first with his McLaren SP Dallara-Chevrolet ahead of Scott McLaughinalso powered by Chevrolet but behind the wheel of the Penske. 13th placeinstead, for Romain Grosjeanon his first date on a superspeedway, as well as this year’s rookie Devlin DeFrancesco, only 17th.
IndyCar | Texas 375 2022, the qualifying results
Pos | Pilot | Team | Average speed (mph) |
1 | Felix Rosenqvist | McLaren SP | 222.110 |
2 | Scott McLaughin | Penske | 221.096 |
3 | Takuma Sato | Coyne / RWR | 221.094 |
4 | Will Power | Penske | 221.016 |
5 | Scott Dixon | Ganassi | 221.011 |
6 | Helio Castroneves | Meyer Shank | 220.768 |
7 | Josef Newgarden | Penske | 220.758 |
8 | Rinus Veekay | Carpenter | 220.748 |
9 | Colton Hertha | Andretti | 220,602 |
10 | Pato O’Ward | McLaren SP | 220.579 |
11 | Alex Palou | Ganassi | 220.571 |
12 | Alexander Rossi | Andretti | 220.458 |
13 | Romain Grosjean | Andretti | 220.412 |
14 | Marcus Ericsson | Ganassi | 220.364 |
15 | Simon Pagenaud | Meyer Shank | 220.338 |
16 | Conor Daly | Carpenter | 219.987 |
17 | Devlin DeFrancesco | Andretti Steinbrenner | 219.888 |
18 | Jimmie Johnson | Ganassi | 219.865 |
19 | David Makulas | Coyne / HMD | 219.864 |
20 | Callum Ilott | Juncos Hollinger | 219.462 |
21 | And Carpenter | Carpenter | 219.212 |
22 | Dalton Kellett | Foyt | 219.038 |
23 | Kyle Kirkwood | Foyt | 219.013 |
24 | Jack Harvey | RLL | 218.781 |
25 | Christian Lundgaard | RLL | 218,687 |
26
27 |
JR Hildebrand
Graham Rahal |
Foyt
Dallara |
218,584
218.410 |
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