Three-time Supercars champion McLaughlin lapped the 1.8-mile St. Petersburg course 0.1237sec faster than teammate Will Power to snatch pole as he begins his sophomore season in IndyCar.
With 2021 race engineer Jonathan Diuguid having moved across to the Porsche Penske LMDh sportscar project, and the IndyCar branch of the legendary team having contracted down to three cars, McLaughlin’s car is now being engineered by Ben Bretzman, long-time partner for the now-departed Simon Pagenaud.
McLaughlin told media: “It’s something that you know you can do, but sometimes – obviously in Australia we had a lot of success with poles and wins and all that sort of stuff and you know you can do it, but you have a hard year like ’21 where it just didn’t click and there was a few things where you just didn’t put it together, but you know the speed is there. It’s all about taking pressure off yourself and just focusing on what you need to do, and that’s what we did today.
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