. PatricioOWard thrilled to nail his first IndyCar pole of the 2022 season after struggling to get a lap completely right in Q1 and Q2 segments
The Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet driver was over two-tenths behind his teammate Felix Rosenqvist in the first two segments of qualifying on new reds, in the Firestone Fast Six on worn rubber he pulled half a second clear. More significantly, he beat Team Penske-Chevy driver Scott McLaughlin to pole by 0.1324sec and thus became the ninth different polesitter in the first nine races of the 2022 NTT IndyCar Series season.
He explained further: “I kept making very… not visible, but mistakes that I would finish the corner and be like, ‘That's terrible!’ This last lap, I had a few wiggles, but I hit all the marks. I did everything I had to do in order to extract a lap time. The other ones I was like cruising in the woods somewhere else!
“I think it just speaks to how good it has been and how good the changes we did overnight were helping us, and yeah, I'm pumped.” O’Ward also noted that Gavin Ward’s fallow term after his departure from Team Penske as Newgarden’s race engineer last winter was now over and that he was at Mid-Ohio in Arrow McLaren SP colors, but said the ‘Ward effect’ alone was not what resulted in both AMSP cars in the top four.
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