Vautier takes Trois-Rivieres pole

Tristan Vautier claimed his fourth pole position of the season for Indy Lights’ standalone round in Trois-Rivieres.

The series’ visit to the famous Canadian street circuit is its only date away from the IndyCar Series in the calendar. An IndyCar-style knockout qualifying was introduced for the event, though with only 11 cars in the field, it effectively amounted to eliminating five in round one before a six-car pole shootout.

Sam Schmidt Motorsports driver Vautier came out on top in that session by just 0.0611 seconds over Andretti Autosport’s Carlos Munoz.

Team Moore Racing’s Gustavo Yacaman pushed points leader Esteban Guerrieri down to fourth, although Guerrieri’s main title rival Sebastian Saavedra was back in sixth, behind Peter Dempsey.

Pos  Driver              Team          Time      Gap
  1.  Tristan Vautier     Schmidt       57.1394s
  2.  Carlos Munoz        Andretti      57.2005s  + 0.0611s
  3.  Gustavo Yacaman     Moore         57.3530s  + 0.2136s
  4.  Esteban Guerrieri   Schmidt       57.4847s  + 0.3453s
  5.  Peter Dempsey       Belardi Auto  57.5743s  + 0.4349s
  6.  Sebastian Saavedra  AFS/Andretti  57.6820s  + 0.5426s
  7.  Victor Carbone      Schmidt       58.0239s  + 0.8845s
  8.  Oliver Webb         Schmidt       58.0665s  + 0.9271s
  9.  Juan Pablo García   Jeffrey Mark  58.2994s  + 1.1600s
 10.  Jorge Goncalvez     Belardi Auto  58.5828s  + 1.4434s
 11.  David Ostella       Moore         59.0208s  + 1.8814s
 

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/real-world-racing/3rdparty/vautier-takes-trois-rivieres-pole

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