Team Penske NTT INDYCAR SERIES Qualifying Report - Mid-Ohio

July 2, 2022

Track:  Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
Race:   Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio
Date:   July 2, 2022

 
No. 2 PPG Dallara/Chevrolet – Josef Newgarden
 
Second Practice                                                                                                     
Position: 3rd
 
Qualifying
Position: 14th

 
No. 3 Odyssey Battery Dallara/Chevrolet – Scott McLaughlin
 
Second Practice
Position: 8th
 
Qualifying
Position: 2nd

 
No. 12 Verizon 5G Dallara/Chevrolet – Will Power
 
Second Practice
Position: 2nd
 
Qualifying
Position: 21st

  
Top Second Practice Time: 1:07.0275 seconds (No. 26 – Colton Herta)
Top Qualifying Time: 1:06.7054 (No. 5 – Pato O'Ward)
 
Team Notes: The field for Sunday's Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio was set during the Saturday afternoon time trials at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. The 2.258-mile circuit halfway between Cleveland and Columbus is a tight, technical course, and those characteristics played a hand in qualifying for Team Penske. Scott McLaughlin continued his climb back to his early-season form by placing his No. 3 Odyssey Battery Chevy in the second position for his third front-row start of 2022. Josef Newgarden – last year's pole and race winner at Mid-Ohio – was held up by slower traffic on his final run in the first round and was unable to transfer to the Top 12. Newgarden and the No. 2 PPG Chevy team will start tomorrow's race from the 14th position. Will Power and the No. 12 Verizon 5G Chevy team finished with the fastest time in the first group of round one, but a call from race control deemed that during the session he impeded the lap of former teammate, Helio Castroneves. The penalty was the loss of his two fastest laps, dropping him to the 21st position.
 
Coverage on NBC, Peacock, INDYCAR Radio and Sirius XM Channel 209
Sunday, July 3, 12:30 p.m. ET: Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio