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 HELIO CASTRONEVES

    NO. 3 REV GROUP
      TEAM PENSKE    
 DALLARA/CHEVROLET

   KOHLER GRAND PRIX

      ROAD AMERICA

        JUNE 24, 2017

WINNING POLE NOTES

· Helio Castroneves won the pole for Sunday's Kohler Grand Prix in Saturday afternoon's Verizon IndyCar Series qualifying session at Road America.

· This is Castroneves' third Verizon P1 Pole Award of the 2017 season having also earned the honors at Long Beach and Phoenix.

· The pole is the 50th of his INDYCAR career (7 CART/43 IRL/IC), which gives him sole possession of third-place on the all-time INDYCAR poles list and needs just three more to tie A.J, Foyt for second. Mario Andretti tops the chart with 67.

· It was Castroneves' first pole win at the Wisconsin road course.

· It is Castroneves' 10th career pole win on a permanent road course.

· This is the 10th pole for Team Penske at Road America in open-wheel competition.

· Team Penske has won six Verizon P1 Pole Awards in 10 races this season and 17 of the last 25 dating back to the beginning of last season.

· This is the 251st Verizon IndyCar Series pole win in the history of Team Penske and the 524th pole for the organization overall.

· Just behind Castroneves on the qualifying chart is Will Power (2nd), Josef Newgarden (3rd) and Simon Pagenaud (4th) to give Team Penske its fourth 1-2-3-4 start with the others coming at St. Petersburg (2015, 2016) and Sonoma (2016).

· Team Penske has 1-2-3-4 starts in each of its three seasons fielding four cars beginning in 2015.