Sato Charges to Edmonton Pole

Takuma Sato capped strong qualifying performances from the entire KV Racing Technology team during IZOD IndyCar Series qualifying Saturday at the Edmonton City Centre temporary airport circuit to capture the pole for Sunday’s Edmonton Indy. It is Sato’s second IndyCar pole in the past three events – he also was pole qualifier at Iowa Speedway in June – with his KV Racing Technology teammates E.J. Viso and Tony Kanaan qualifying fifth and 11th, respectively.

Takuma Sato (KV Racing Technology-Lotus)		Takuma Sato (KV Racing Technology-Lotus)

Will Power qualified second, and saw his streak of eight consecutive road/street course poles come to an end; while defending race winner Scott Dixon will line up third and championship points leader Dario Franchitti, fourth. Team Penske’s Ryan Briscoe rounded out the top six “knockout” qualifiers today. Sunday’s 90-lap race starts at 2 p.m. EDT, with live television coverage on VERSUS.

Takuma Sato (KV Racing Technology-Lotus)		Takuma Sato (KV Racing Technology-Lotus)

IndyCar Series Round 10: Edmonton

1 Takuma Sato (KV Racing Technology) 2 Will Power (Team Penske) 3 Scott Dixon (Target Chip Ganassi) 4 Dario Franchitti (Target Chip Ganassi) 5 E.J. Viso (KV Racing Technology) 6 Ryan Briscoe (Andretti Autosport) 7 Ryan Hunter-Reay (Newman Haas Racing) 8 Oriol Servia (Team Penske) 9 Helio Castroneves (Newman Haas Racing) 10 James Hinchcliffe-R (KV Racing Technology) 11 Tony Kanaan (Dale Coyne Racing) 12 Sebastien Bourdais (Chip Ganassi Racing) 13 Graham Rahal (A.J. Foyt Racing) 14 Vitor Meira (Dreyer & Reinbold Racing) 15 Justin Wilson (HVM Racing) 16 Simona de Silvestro (Sam Schmidt Motorsports) 17 Alex Tagliani (Dale Coyne Racing) 18 James Jakes-R (Andretti Autosport) 19 Marco Andretti (Andretti Autosport) 20 Mike Conway (Chip Ganassi Racing) 21 Charlie Kimball-R (Andretti Autosport) 22 Danica Patrick (Dreyer & Reinbold Racing) 23 Ana Beatriz-R (Panther Racing) 24 JR Hildebrand-R (Dragon Racing) 25 Paul Tracy (Conquest Racing) 26 Sebastian Saavedra-R (Conquest Racing)