Times staff
Friday, March 25, 2011
In IndyCar, qualifying on road and street courses is broken into three segments. The cars are split into two groups; each group gets 20 minutes of track time including caution flags. The top six cars from each group advance; the rest are placed on the grid from spots 13 on back (odd-numbered grid positions come from the first group). The 12 cars left have 15 minutes for the second segment. The top six reach the final segment, the rest fill grid spots 7-12. The last segment is 10 minutes, with at least five minutes guaranteed under a green flag. The fastest qualifier gets the pole, the second fastest shares the front row and so on.