Simon Pagenaud, driver of the No.22 Hewlett Packard Chevrolet, will start the second Dual in Detroit at Detroit Belle Isle from the pole position with the speed or 114.266. He was fastest in Group one.
Ryan Hunter-Reay, driver of the No. 28 DHL Honda ,will start from the second position with the Speed of 113.462, followed by Helio Castroneves, driver of No. 3 Hitachi Team Penske Chevrolet, with the speed of 114.031.
Scott Dixon, driver of the No.9 Target Chevrolet, will start from the fourth position with the speed of 113.273, with Mikhail Aleshin, driver of the No.7 SPM Racing Schmidt Peterson Honda, rounding out the top-five with the speed of 113.214.
Rounding out the top-10 is Tony Kanaan, Graham Rahal, Will Power, Jack Hawksworth and Juan Pablo Montoya.
IndyCar did not do Round Two or the Firestone Fast Six for qualifications for this race, as they normally would. Instead, qualifying for Race 2 resulted in the 22-car field being split into two groups, with each group permitted 12 minutes of track time. This was due to trying to get it done quickly, as a result of a busy on-track schedule for the day.
Marco Andretti and Conor Daly both lost their fastest times for their sessions for causing the local yellow to come out. Alexander Rossi, driver of the No.98 Napa Autoparts Honda, also lost his fastest time for not slowing under a local yellow. Power and Hunter-Reay were both issued penalties – Power for interfering with qualifying resulting in a loss of his fastest two laps, and Hunter-Reay got a drive through for speeding on pit road.
