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Briscoe dominates Indy Car qualifying to take pole at the Glenn

Written by Scott Keller · July 4, 2009

Ryan Briscoe was almost a second faster than the rest of the Indy Car field on July 4th, taking the top spot in the Firestone Fast Six.  Briscoe has been hooked up for the last few weeks, and the pole at the Glenn is his second this season.

Briscoe ran the natural-terrain road course with a lap time  1:28.597 at 136.935 mph, beating out Justin Wilson and Scott Dixon who will start 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Dario Franchitti looked very quick, but a major shunt in the final moments of qualifying ruined his shot at the pole. His Dallara sustained heavy rear-end damage, although it appeared to be repairable and Dario should start somewhere in the top 6.   The official starting grid will be released later today at Indycar.com.

Helio Castroneves didn’t have a good day at the Glenn, and failed to make it out of first round qualifying.  He was knocked out after qualifying P7 in Group B. He should start 14th  (the official grid has not been released at time of post).

The race tomorrow might just be for second place, with nobody holding a candle to Briscoe today.    A quick glance at the qualifying times below shows a large group drivers were running laps in the low 1:29’s, so if Briscoe drops out for any reason, this race could be up for grabs.

Paul Tracy is back for this week’s race in a PKV car, but struggled.  He’ll start deep in the field after getting knocked out of qualifying in round 1.

The Camping World Grand Prix at the Glenn airs tomorrow at 1 p.m. ET on ABC.

Pos	Driver	       Best Time
1	Ryan Briscoe	01:28.6
2	Justin Wilson	01:29.3
3	Scott Dixon	01:29.7
4	Mario Moraes	01:29.8
5	Graham Rahal	01:30.0
6	D.Franchitti	Crash
7	Mike Conway	01:29.2
8	Danica Patrick	01:29.2
9	Marco Andretti	01:29.4
10	Tony Kanaan	01:29.4
11	EJ Viso	        01:29.6
12	Dan Wheldon	01:29.9
13	Hideki Mutoh	01:29.8
14	H. Castroneves	01:29.9
15	Paul Tracy	01:30.6
16	R. Hunter-Reay	01:30.4
17	Robert Doornbos	01:30.6
18	Raphael Matos	01:30.5
19	Milka Duno	01:33.7
20	R. Antinucci	01:31.2
21	Ed Carpenter	01:31.7

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