The IndyCar Series is taking the single-car qualifying process it trialed during the Arlington Grand Prix’s Firestone Fast Six and making it a season-long feature at the remaining street races.

The most impressive aspect of the 37-year-old’s performance was his pace on used Firestone alternate tires in the third and final round of qualifying, the Firestone Fast Six.

The Swede demolished the pole contenders with a lap of 1m34.356s in the No. 28 Andretti Global Honda which was nearly a half-second better than Alex Palou’s in the No. 10 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda to capture his first series pole.

“We had a little hiccup on pit lane,” said Kirkwood, who will start seventh. “I just forgot which lap we needed to do our lap on."

The final stage of qualifying for the Java House Grand Prix of Arlington will make use of oval-style single-car qualifying runs, giving drivers and teams new considerations to ponder.

The IndyCar Series has modified its final round of qualifying on Saturday at the Java House Arlington Grand Prix, which will be settled with single-car runs.

Fast cars on Saturdays tend to make life easier on Sundays. For the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing IndyCar Series team, the pursuit of improved single-lap performance in qualifying has been an area of great investment in 2025, and so far, their efforts have been a success.The three-car program entered the...

The strange ballet of NTT IndyCar Series drivers pulling away from their road or street course pit stall at the end of a session and returning moments later will come to a halt in most cases this year.For the sake of simplicity, IndyCar has modified a provision for segment extensions...

Sebastien Bourdais and RACER's Marshall Pruett break down a warm and slippery Friday at Circuit of The Americas as NTT IndyCar Series teams prepared for Firestone Fast Six qualifying on Saturday.[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E3WyVLm-gQ&w=640&h=360]

The normally idyllic Southern California temperatures made for an interesting afternoon practice session for the Verizon IndyCar Series on Friday. A mix of IndyCar's new bodywork and warmer temperatures could have teams guessing again when they transition from a second morning practice on Saturday to qualifying at 3:30 p.m."I think...