Championship leader Simon Pagenaud scored his seventh pole position of the season, and his only title challenger Will Power could do no better than fourth, as Team Penske-Chevrolet locked out the first two rows. Pagenaud’s 1min16.2565sec on used red [soft] tires eclipsed Helio Castroneves’ best on fresh reds by 0.1569sec, to demote teammates Juan Pablo Montoya and Power to the second row. It also moves Pagenaud to 44 points ahead of Power. Power, who has won pole at Sonoma five times in the previous six years, tried both used reds and new blacks but came up 0.4sec short. In fact, he was lucky to cling on to the second row, as Graham Rahal reversed the trend of Rahal Letterman Lanigan...
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