Newgarden was lucky to escape Q2, as some potentially faster runners had their flying laps ruined by Romain Grosjean crashing and bringing out the red flag.
But once through to the Firestone Fast Six, on used ‘reds’, Firestone’s softer compound tires, Newgarden delivered to snatch pole from the Dale Coyne Racing with RWR-Honda of Takuma Sato by 0.133sec.
