Will Power (No. 12 Penske Truck Rental, PEAK Performance Pole Award winner):
“It’s very tough qualifying here. I’m physically exhausted. To do that lap, I’m very tired by the end of it, but it was a very good result. I’m very happy to have a 1-2-3 qualifying result for Penske Racing. It just shows what a good team I’m with. None of us have really had to make too many changes this weekend. The cars have been spot on. ” (About starting on the pole): “The starting position gives you an advantage, but you’ve really got to use it. As you can see in these races, anything can happen. I just hope to have a clean race tomorrow in the Penske Truck Rental car. I’d love to win one before the next few races that I get to compete in. Tomorrow would be nice.”
Ryan Briscoe (No. 6 Team Penske, qualified second):
“I feel pretty good. I would have liked the pole but the important thing is we’re at the front and the Team Penske car is very fast. It’s really handling well around this Edmonton track so it really makes us feel good going into the race tomorrow. It is a little bit frustrating because we didn’t get everything out of the new tires that we could have. I felt like there was a little bit more to lose than to gain by hanging it out too much, but it’s still awesome. I’ve gone on to finish first when starting in second place before so hopefully we can make that happen tomorrow.”
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Helio Castroneves (No. 3 Team Penske, qualified third):
“It was fun. For a moment I forgot how fun it was to fight for the pole position but, let me tell you, Team Penske is awesome. They did a great job putting three cars in the top positions. That’s what happens when you have three guys that step on the gas, you get excitement and it makes you push as hard as you can. I’m happy and we will be ready for a strong race on Sunday.”
Scott Dixon (No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing, qualified fourth):
“My afternoon wasn’t too bad. It’s a difficult circuit that I think our team struggles at a bit for pure, flat-out speed. We were back and forth throughout the weekend and in and out of the top six positions, so it’s been tough. Qualifying, especially in the first group was pretty tough for me. As qualifying went on, especially for the last run I didn’t think that we could even get close to the top but we did on our second set of reds (Firestone tires) so that was pretty nice.”
Graham Rahal (No. 02 McDonald’s Racing Team, qualified fifth):
“We started the third round on the old reds (alternate tires) and we probably could have gone a little bit quicker but we wouldn’t have done a 1:01.2. We decided early on that if we weren’t going to get enough out of it we were going to come in early and put on a set of blacks (primary tires) but it felt like the left rear was loose when we did which wasn’t the case but that’s how it felt. It was so loose in the right handers that it felt like something was broken so we pitted and didn’t really make our second run in the final round of qualifying. Fortunately we’re in the top-six again which feels really good for the McDonald’s boys. The best thing is that at the end of last year we sat down and had a talk at the shop and we said ‘If we don’t make the top-six at least three times next year we’re going to be disappointed’ and we’ve been in it every single time but once and we narrowly missed it and started seventh. So we’ve got to be pretty pleased with that.”
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Dario Franchitti (No. 10 Vaseline, qualified sixth):
“I’m delighted with our performance today. We’ve struggled all weekend with this car. The guys on the team worked so, so hard. I’m happy with our team’s performance today.”
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