Pole: Sebastien Bourdais 1:07.546 / 104.889 mph
5th: Graham Rahal 1:08.170 / 103.928 mph
Sebastien Bourdais, No. 1 McDonald s Cosworth/DP01/Bridgestone:
“I think it was a little bit of a better today for the McDonald s team. We were a little frustrated after yesterday. Obviously we had a very strong first run, then not making it happen on the second with the pit selection we had after the terrible mistake I made in Vegas. We just paid the price. You know, very costly. It was tough because we only got one lap and couldn t improve on the second run. But today was a different day. We worked really well this morning. We found some improvements and the track came to us a little bit, too. In second qualifying, I was pretty confident after the 15 minute practice. We seemed to have a nice margin. But when we put the option tires on the car, the car got completely disconnected. It lost the balance and I was really not feeling comfortable at all. So we decided to—despite the fact that we were on pole, we didn t feel like we got everything out of it, and didn t feel like the balance was going to get there, so we switched back to the standard tires. That run really never happened. But the last lap was looking pretty good, and unfortunately I ran into some traffic.
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