{"id":511140,"date":"2026-03-01T05:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/511140\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T05:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:22:08","slug":"indycar-st-petersburg-qualifying-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/511140\/","title":{"rendered":"IndyCar St. Petersburg \u2013 Qualifying Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>25 drivers of the NTT IndyCar Series took to the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida on Sunday afternoon to complete the first knockout qualifying session of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>Scott McLaughlin took his second consecutive pole to start the season, completing a lap in 60.5436 seconds in what he described as one of the best cars he has ever had.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Ericsson was second quick, with rookie Dennis Hauger surprising with a third place run as he headed up a double Dale Coyne Racing showing in the Firestone Fast Six.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/2026\/02\/28\/scott-mclaughlin-rockets-to-the-top-in-indycar-qualifying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">IndyCar St. Petersburg \u2013 Full Qualifying Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pato O\u2019Ward, a favorite to win the race this weekend, was knocked out in the second round and will line up eighth in his Arrow McLaren Chevy.<\/p>\n<p>Two other perennial favorites Scott Dixon and Josef Newgarden were both knocked out in the first round, and will have to fight from the back half of the grid.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers have one early warm-up session on Sunday morning, ahead of a 100-lap race at noon eastern time.<\/p>\n<p>#DriverTimeGapAvg. Speed (MPH)Round1Scott McLaughlin01:00.5426\u2013107.032Fast Six2Marcus Ericsson01:00.56210.020106.998Fast Six3Dennis Hauger01:00.57430.032106.976Fast Six4Alex Palou01:00.68420.142106.782Fast Six5David Malukas01:00.76380.221106.642Fast Six6Romain Grosjean01:01.34620.804105.630Fast Six7Marcus Armstrong01:00.78200.239106.611Top 128Pato O\u2019Ward01:00.88630.343106.428Top 129Louis Foster01:00.94720.404106.322Top 1210Kyffin Simpson01:00.98110.438106.262Top 1211Felix Rosenqvist01:00.98400.441106.257Top 1212Christian Lundgaard01:00.98420.441106.257Top 1213Will Power01:01.19360.368105.893First Round14Christian Rasmussen01:01.18350.604105.911First Round15Kyle Kirkwood01:01.23080.405105.829First Round16Scott Dixon01:01.21090.631105.863First Round17Santino Ferrucci01:01.26300.437105.773First Round18Graham Rahal01:01.22570.646105.838First Round19Rinus VeeKay01:01.37190.546105.586First Round20Sting Ray Robb01:01.36660.787105.595First Round21Mick Schumacher01:01.39830.573105.540First Round22Nolan Siegel01:01.44980.870105.452First Round23Josef Newgarden01:01.41740.592105.508First Round24Caio Collet01:01.57190.992105.243First Round25Alexander Rossi01:01.60311.023105.190First Round<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"25 drivers of the NTT IndyCar Series took to the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida on Sunday afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,256112,5856,225258,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-511140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-firestonegp","tag-indycar","tag-mclaughlin","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}