From the National Post: EDMONTON -- The 23-car field is dotted with far more pretenders than contenders, and we can all curse the domination of Team Penske and Target Chip Ganassi for that sad statistic.
The veteran Indy Racing League teams have won nine of the 10 races this year and are just so smart, skilled, experienced and well-funded that they rarely give away anything to anybody but one another. So it comes as no surprise that Penske's Will Power sits on the pole for Sunday's Edmonton Indy. He won that prized position during three rounds of gruelling elimination-format qualifying Saturday that whittled the field down to the fastest six.
Three of them are Penske drivers, two are Ganassi boys and Newman/Haas/Lanigan's Graham Rahal is the only interloper in the first three rows.
"I think every driver agrees, man that is exhausting, getting to those final laps when you're going for pole, it's tough," Power said after the 65 minutes of qualifying in scorching hot temperatures and a pressure-packed atmosphere that produced a couple of spinouts - by Scott Dixon, Ryan Hunter-Reay and Paul Tracy - and some decent entertainment.
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Here's highlights from qualifying:
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