Robert Wickens grabbed a stunning pole for his Verizon IndyCar Series debut on a damp but drying St. Petersburg track, beating Team Penske’s Will Power and another rookie – Matheus Leist of AJ Foyt Racing. Wickens lapped the 1.8-mile runway/street course in 61.6643sec, his Schmidt Peterson Motorsports-Honda edging seven-time St. Pete polesitter Power by 0.0703sec. Wickens was initially bottled up behind a tentative Power as the shootout began, but neither made any significant errors once they separated themselves and as the track dried, they each got to within two seconds of the typical dry-lap time here, with the Canadian earning pole with his final lap. Barely less impressive was...
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