Helio Castroneves Pole Winning Notes - Road America
June 24, 2017
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.