Tristan Vautier backed up his fastest practice time on Friday with pole for Sunday's Firestone Indy Lights race at Trois-Rivieres, Quebec.

After a series of lackluster races and without a win since Milwaukee in June, the Frenchman secured his first pole since Iowa also that month. It's his third pole of the season.

Edmonton winner Carlos Munoz and Colombian countryman Gustavo Yacaman were next up, ahead of Esteban Guerrieri, Peter Dempsey and Sebastian Saavedra.

Of the top six, only Munoz is making his first ever Trois-Rivieres start and though Vautier's a rookie in Indy Lights he won one of his two Star Mazda starts here a year ago.

For the second year in a row, qualifying for the Grand Prix of Trois-Rivières was decided by a two-segment knockout session, similar to the Firestone Fast Six in the IZOD IndyCar Series. The first segment was a 30-minute session in which all cars battled for the top six advancing spots. Vautier led that session with a lap of 57.5010 seconds, followed by Team Moore Racing's Yacaman. Last year's pole sitter and race winner Guerrieri, and teammates  Saavedra and Munoz all advanced to the final segment.

Segment 2 was a 10-minute shootout to decide pole position. Teams toyed with strategy for the first few minutes, and no cars went out on track until two minutes after the green flag dropped. Dempsey was the first car out.

The top three drivers went under the standing outright track record set last year by Guerrieri at 57.4541 seconds. Vautier's pole time of 57.1394 is the new standard for drivers to beat in the 1:45 p.m. (ET) race Sunday afternoon. Edmonton race winner Munoz will start alongside him, followed by Yacaman, Guerrieri, Dempsey and Saavedra.

The race goes green on Sunday afternoon at 1:45 p.m. Eastern.

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