Colton Herta and Scott McLaughlin will lead the NTT IndyCar Series field to the green flag for Saturday’s (July 13) and Sunday’s, respectively, races at Iowa following an eventful qualifying session Saturday afternoon.
As is the norm for qualifying for the Hy-Vee INDYCAR Race Weekend, each car made one run consisting of a warm-up lap and two timed laps with the first timed lap setting the driver’s position for the Saturday’s race and the second determining the starting order for Sunday.
McLaughlin’s second lap was a track-record-setting 188.248 mph, or 17.0966 seconds, while Herta’s pole speed for Race 1 was 187.655 mph, or 17.1506 seconds.
Aside from the two polesitters, Jack Harvey saw perhaps the most time in the spotlight throughout the day, though not for pleasant reasons. The 31-year-old from England has been dealing with neck and back spasms since last week’s race at Mid-Ohio and word was already circulating before qualifying that he may not partake in this weekend’s racing.
Harvey was the first to run in qualifying but did not have any available hybrid power deployment throughout his attempt. Harvey and Dale Coyne Racing were offered a second attempt by INDYCAR after it was determined that the No. 18 car’s failure to deploy its hybrid stores was neither the fault of the driver nor the team.
Harvey made a second run and bettered his times, but was in visible pain afterward and was helped from the car by a team member.
Saturday’s Hy-Vee Homefront 250 will begin at 8 p.m. ET and Sunday’s Hy-Vee One Step 250 will kick off at 12 p.m. ET. Both events will be live on NBC and Peacock.
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