Alex Palou Secures Third Consecutive Pole at Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix

DETROIT – Alex Palou continued his dominant qualifying form in the 2026 NTT INDYCAR SERIES, capturing the NTT P1 Award on Saturday for the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear. Palou secured his third consecutive pole position of the season and the 16th of his career with a best lap of 1 minute, 1.9017 seconds during the Firestone Fast Six.

This achievement marks the first time in Palou’s career that he has won three straight poles, a streak built across three distinct types of circuits: the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, the Indianapolis 500 oval, and the 1.645-mile temporary street circuit in Detroit.

“I felt really good with my lap,” Palou said. “I thought there was not much more margin from my side, so I just tried to put everything together. So happy to make it to the pole, and we stayed there”.

Will Power qualified second with a time of 1:02.1249, marking his best qualifying performance of the season. Scott McLaughlin was the fastest Chevrolet-powered driver, securing the third starting position at 1:02.4559. Scott Dixon and Christian Lundgaard rounded out the top five, while Kyle Kirkwood completed the Firestone Fast Six in sixth position.

Official Qualifying Results

Rank	Car	Driver	Time	Speed	Session
1	10	Alex Palou	01:01.9017	95.668	Round 3 / Fast Six
2	26	Will Power	01:02.1249	95.324	Round 3 / Fast Six
3	3	Scott McLaughlin	01:02.4559	94.819	Round 3 / Fast Six
4	9	Scott Dixon	01:02.6085	94.588	Round 3 / Fast Six
5	7	Christian Lundgaard	01:02.7870	94.319	Round 3 / Fast Six
6	27	Kyle Kirkwood	01:03.0303	93.955	Round 3 / Fast Six
7	5	Pato O’Ward	01:01.5966	96.142	Elimination Round 2
8	66	Marcus Armstrong	01:01.6973	95.985	Elimination Round 2
9	21	Christian Rasmussen	01:01.7122	95.962	Elimination Round 2
10	28	Marcus Ericsson	01:01.7770	95.861	Elimination Round 2
11	45	Louis Foster	01:01.8340	95.773	Elimination Round 2
12	15	Graham Rahal	01:01.9830	95.542	Elimination Round 2
13	6	Nolan Siegel	01:02.7656	94.351	Elimination Round 1
14	20	Alexander Rossi	01:02.1614	95.268	Elimination Round 1
15	19	Dennis Hauger (R)	01:02.8249	94.262	Elimination Round 1
16	60	Felix Rosenqvist	01:02.1863	95.230	Elimination Round 1
17	8	Kyffin Simpson	01:03.3399	93.496	Elimination Round 1
18	76	Rinus VeeKay	01:02.2800	95.087	Elimination Round 1
19	4	Caio Collet (R)	01:03.3440	93.490	Elimination Round 1
20	18	Romain Grosjean	01:02.3191	95.027	Elimination Round 1
21	2	Josef Newgarden	01:03.4034	93.402	Elimination Round 1
22	14	Santino Ferrucci	01:02.4114	94.887	Elimination Round 1
23	47	Mick Schumacher (R)	01:07.4493	87.799	Elimination Round 1
24	77	Sting Ray Robb	01:02.7978	94.303	Elimination Round 1
25	12	David Malukas	01:04.6118	91.655	Elimination Round 1

(R) – Denotes Rookie of the Year candidate.