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Indy 500 2017 qualifying: Full results from Sunday

Nine drivers will vie to win the Indianapolis 500 pole in qualifying Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

IndyCar: 101st Running of the Indianapolis 500-Qualifying
IndyCar: 101st Running of the Indianapolis 500-Qualifying
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5:52 p.m. ET — Scott Dixon’s four-lap average of 232.164 mph is the fastest at Indianapolis since Arie Luyendyk’s record average of 236.986 mph in 1996. Dixon is now a three-time Indianapolis 500 pole winner, having also taken the top position in 2008 and 2015.

5:45 p.m. ET — Ed Carpenter and Takuma Sato fall short, and Scott Dixon wins the pole for the 2017 Indianapolis 500. Carpenter qualified second, Rossi is third, with Sato fourth.

5:35 p.m. ET --- Scott Dixon makes a statement run going 232 mph on three of four laps to jump to P1. His 232.164 mph average is going to be tough to beat. Only Takuma Sato and Ed Carpenter are left to qualify.

5:25 p.m. ET — Alexander Rossi bumps Fernando Alonso off the top spot. The defending race winner ran laps at 231.843 mph, 231.153 mph, 231.479 mph, and 231.475 for an average of 231.487 mph.

5:18 p.m. ET — Fernando Alonso continues to impress, this time grabbing the provisional pole with all four laps over 231 mph.

5:15 p.m. ET — Marco Andretti recorded a four-lap average of 230.474 mph. Tony Kanaan looked as if he would put a big average after an initial lap of 231.239 mph, but slowed down on his three successive laps and ended with an average of 230.828 mph.

5 p.m. ET — Fast 9 pole qualifying has started. First up is Marco Andretti, followed by Tony Kanaan, and Fernando Alonso.

4:35 p.m. ET — Group 1 qualifying is complete with positions 10 through 33 in the starting lineup now set. Ryan Hunter-Reay, the 2014 Indianapolis 500 winner, posted the fastest speed at 231.442 mph, followed by Ed Jones (230.578 mph) and Oriol Servia (230.309).

Most surprisingly is Team Penske’s Chevrolet-powered cars continuing to lack much speed. Juan Pablo Montoya, Helio Castroneves, Josef Newgarden, and Simon Pagenaud all failed to earn a spot in the Fast 9 on Saturday, and showed little improvement Sunday. Montoya will start 18th, with Castroneves 19th, Newgarden 22nd, and Pagenaud 23rd.

Left carrying the Penske flag is Will Power, who’s s seeking to deliver Roger Penske his 18th career pole Indianapolis 500 pole.

3: 55 p.m. ET — Juan Pablo Montoya qualifies at 229.565 mph, good for 12th overall with eight drivers still to go. Unlike Team Penske teammate Simon Pagenaud, who was slower Sunday than on Saturday, Montoya picked up about a mile-and-a-half on his run.

3:45 p.m. ET — The struggles continue for Simon Pagenaud, the defending IndyCar Series champion who’s seeking his first Indianapolis 500 win. He’s provisionally 14th on the grid after clocking-in a second round qualifying speed of 228.093 mph, which is actually slower than his effort Saturday.

“The speed is not there,” Pagenaud said. “It’s not exactly where we want to be.”

3:35 p.m. ET — Although he brushed the Turn 2 wall on his qualifying run, rookie Jack Harvey continued on despite the contact to put together a 225.742 mph average.

3:20 p.m. ET — McLaren-Andretti is making a precautionary engine change on Fernando Alonso’s No. 29 car prior to qualifying, after it began smoking in the garage following afternoon practice. Alonso had run a total of 12 laps in the session, posting the sixth-fastest speed (231.317 mph) overall.

2 p.m. ET — Dale Coyne Racing named James Davison to drive its No. 18 Honda-powered car, replacing the injured Sebastien Bourdais.

Bourdais suffered multiple fractures to his pelvis and a fracture to his right hip after crashing while making a qualifying attempt Saturday. The 38-year-old Frenchman’s car struck the outside Turn 2 wall nose-first, then flipped once before coming to a rest on the backstretch. He underwent surgery on his pelvis Saturday night, and is expected to make a full recovery.

Davison is a two-time Indianapolis 500 starter — including with DCR in 2015 — and has competed in two other Verizon IndyCar Series races for the team. As DCR continues to prepare its backup car, Davison’s first laps on the track won’t come until practice Monday. Because he will sit out qualifying Sunday, the Australian will start 33rd in the race.

1 p.m. ET — The complete 33-car starting lineup for the 101st Indianapolis 500 will be set Sunday afternoon at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Nine drivers — Ed Carpenter, Takuma Sato, Scott Dixon, JR Hildebrand, Alexander Rossi, Will Power, Fernando Alonso, Tony Kanaan, and Marco Andretti — will gun for the pole after earning the opportunity by posting the fastest speeds in first round qualifying Saturday.

Drivers who qualified 10th on back Saturday can attempt to requalify beginning at 2:45 p.m. ET — though they cannot start higher than 10th. The Fast 9 Shootout to determine the pole winner is scheduled for 5 p.m., with each of the nine drivers assured of getting one attempt. Whomever posts the fastest four-lap average will lead the field to the green flag in next Sunday’s Indianapolis 500.

Carpenter’s 230.468 mph average speed topped Saturday’s qualifying session. The driver-owner is the stepfather of Tony George, whose family owns IMS and the Verizon IndyCar Series, the sanctioning body of the Indianapolis 500. Carpenter won the pole for this race in 2013 and 2014.

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