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Day By Day: 2013 Indianapolis 500

    The three cars that will start on the front row of next Sunday’s Indy 500 posed in their qualifying positions Sunday morning at the Speedway. Ed Carpenter (right), is on the pole, rookie driver Carlos Munoz qualified second and Marco Andretti was third fastest and will start on the outside of the front row. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Indy 500 polesitter, Ed Carpenter, posed with his car on the front straightaway of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Sunday morning. Carpenter will lead the 33-car field to the green flag next Sunday. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Sunday was Armed Forces Day. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway traditionally recognizes the day with a display of military equipment and service members on hand to answer questions about the equipment and the military in general. There also is a mass swearing in of recruits into all five branches of the military. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Team Manager, Larry Foyt (left), car owner, A.J. Foyt, and driver, Conor Daly, posed with the ABC Supply/A.J. Foyt Racing machine he drove after Daly qualified for his first Indianapolis 500. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Katherine Legge signed to drive the Angie’s List/Schmidt Peterson Motorsports car Saturday morning and took just 24 laps around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Sunday morning’s practice session before qualifying Sunday afternoon at 223.176. This is the slowest speed in the field, but considering the circumstances, it was quite a feat. [Russ Lake Photo]

    It was a day of heartbreak for Michel Jourdain Jr. Sunday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Indy 500 veteran had been struggling since the first day of practice to get the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing entry up to speed, but whatever the crew tried did not work, and he was left on the outside looking in. He was the only driver/car combination entered for the Indianapolis 500 that did not qualify for the race. [Russ Lake Photo]

    The firing of the starter’s pistol exactly at 6:00 p.m. traditionally signifies the end of qualifying for the day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. [Russ Lake Photo]

    The scoring pylon on the frontstretch of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has the entire field listed in order after the end of Indianapolis 500 qualifying on Sunday. [Russ Lake Photo]

    The front row starters for the Indianapolis 500. Ed Carpenter (center) won the pole, Carlos Munoz (right) will start second, while Marco Andretti (left) will start outside of the front row. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Ed Carpenter gave a thumbs-up as he held the cars owner’s pole award while was interviewed by PA announcer Dave Calabro Saturday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Chip Ganassi Racing car owner, Chip Ganassi, sat behind the wheel of his golf cart while talking to his driver, Ryan Briscoe, during qualifying Saturday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. [Russ Lake Photo]

    JR Hildebrand, whose car is sponsored by the National Guard, posed with the National Guard mascot after qualifying on Saturday for next Sunday’s Indianapolis 500. [Russ Lake Photo]

    The Borg-Warner Trophy was on display Saturday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The likeness of the Indianapolis 500 winner is applied to the trophy each year. [Russ Lake Photo]

    A steady rain Saturday morning delayed the start of Saturday’s qualifying session at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for about 2-1/2 hours. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Indy 500 pole winner, Ed Carpenter, took the checkered flag at the end of his four-lap qualification run Saturday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing held a press conference discussing qualifying and the Indianapolis 500 Friday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Left to right are: Mike Lanigan and Bobby Rahal, team owners, Graham Rahal, driver and Jay O’Connell, technical director for the team. [Russ Lake Photo]

    The Target Chip Ganassi Racing Team (left to right) drivers Ryan Briscoe and Charlie Kimball, team manager, Mike Hull, team owner, Chip Ganassi and drivers Scott Dixon and Dario Franchitti, held a press conference Friday morning in the media center of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to discuss the team’s prospects for qualifying and for the Indianapolis 500. [Russ Lake Photo]

    A third press conference at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Friday morning featured Team Penske, who discussed their preparations for qualifying for, and racing in, the Indianapolis 500. Left to right are team consultant and four-time Indy 500 winner Rick Mears, drivers AJ Almendinger and Will Power, Penske Performance president Tim Cindric and driver Helio Castroneves. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Buddy Lazier became the 33rd driver to practice on the track as he passed the first phase of his refresher test and nine of the required 15 laps of the second phase Friday, when a downpour hit the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, washing out the rest of the day’s practice. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Fans ran for cover as a heavy downpour hit the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, cancelling the remainder of Friday’s practice session. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Andretti Autosport teammates EJ Viso and Marco Andretti posted the two fastest times Friday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Viso was fastest at 229.537 mph, while Andretti was second quickest at 228.754 mph in the rain-shortened session. [Russ Lake Photo]

    The Indianapolis Motor Speedway closed early Friday following an afternoon thunderstorm. The track was wet enough following the heavy rain that practice could not resume before the original closing time at 6:00 p.m. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Following the closing of Friday’s practice session at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, teams drew a number for the qualifying order for Saturday’s first qualifying session. Defending IZOD IndyCar Series champion, Ryan Hunter-Reay, assisted his infant son in drawing his qualifying order number. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Ryan Hunter-Reay drove under the checkered flag that signified the end practice for the day at 6:00 p.m. (local time) on Thursday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. [Russ Lake Photo]

    The trophy for the Fuzzy’s Triple Crown for the IZOD IndyCar Series was unveiled Thursday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Triple Crown will consist of the Indianapolis 500, a 400-mile race at Pocono Raceway and the 500-mile season finale at Auto Club Speedway. Posing with the trophy are (left to right) Fuzzy’s CEO Eric Timmerman, Fuzzy’s-sponsored driver Ed Carpenter, four-time Indy 500 winner Rick Mears and 2008 Indy 500 winner, Scott Dixon. [Russ Lake Photo]

    The wrecked car of rookie Conor Daly was returned to the garage area following the first accident of the month when Daly hit the Turn 1 wall at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Thursday. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Helio Castroneves looked relaxed as he stood in the pits during Thursday’s practice at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. [Russ Lake Photo]

    1996 Indy 500 winner, Buddy Lazier, made his first appearance on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Thursday. Lazier completed three laps at a slow pace and will attempt to pass his refresher test tomorrow morning. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Oriol Servia (#22) and Justin Wilson (#19) ran together during Thursday’s practice session at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
    [Russ Lake Photo]

    The blue "move over" flag was displayed to EJ Viso (#5) as Graham Rahal (#15) came up behind him at a faster pace during practice Thursday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Tristan Vautier (#55) and Ryan Briscoe (#8) ran side-by-side at the Indianapolis Motor speedway during practice Thursday. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Rookie Carlos Munoz, who was the fastest driver of the day, and his Andretti Autosport teammate, EJ Viso, were interviewed in Thursday’s post-practice press conference at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Target Chip Ganassi Racing driver Dario Franchitti (#10) set the fastest practice speed of the day at 224.235 mph Wednesday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. [Russ Lake Photo]

    KV Racing drivers Simona de Silvestro and Tony Kanaan appeared to be having a good time at Wednesday morning’s team press conference at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. [Russ Lake Photo]

    The Holmatro Safety Team spent 11 minutes cleaning debris off the frontstretch of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Wednesday afternoon after the wrap-around decals came off of Sebastian Saavedra’s car while he was practicing. [Russ Lake Photo]

    JR Hildebrand sat on the pit wall talking to Oriol Servia and part of Servia’s crew during Wednesday practice at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Ed Carpenter had a very serious look in his eyes as he prepared to go out for practice at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Wednesday. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Michel Jourdain Jr. talks to a member of his crew during Wednesday’s practice session at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves put on his helmet prior to going on the track at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Wednesday. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Pippa Mann (#63) was on track Wednesday with her sponsor displayed on the car. The car was unmarked when she took her refresher test at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Monday. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Marco Andretti (#25) and Pippa Mann (#63) ran together during Wednesday’s practice session at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Townsend Bell (left) and Dario Franchitti both were smiling at the post-practice press conference after Franchitti set the fastest speed of the day and Bell was second-quickest Wednesday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. [Russ Lake Photo]

    James Hinchcliffe (#27) and Helio Castoneves (#4) ran side-by-side during practice at the Speedway on Tuesday. Hinchcliffe turned the fastest practice speed of the day, but set the time driving teammate Marco Andretti’s car. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Three of the four Andretti Autosports teammates, Ryan Hunter-Reay (#1), James Hinchcliffe (#27) and Marco Andretti (#25) were on track in the final hour of Tuesday’s practice session at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Ana (Bia) Beatriz put on her helmet and HANS Device as she prepared to go out for practice Tuesday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Derrick Walker will continue to work as general manager of Ed Carpenter Racing through the Indianapolis 500, but the next day (May 27) will assume his new position as President, Operations & Competition of INDYCAR. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Michael Andretti, head of Andretti Autosport, communicated with one of his drivers via headset during Tuesday practice at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. [Russ Lake Photo]

    KV Racing driver Simona de Silvestro practiced pit stops at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Tuesday. [Russ Lake Photo]

    The view coming off the track into Gasoline Alley at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway includes a look at the colorful banners set up to indicate in which row of the garages each driver’s garage is located. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Rookie Tristan Vautier (#55) and veteran JR Hildebrand (#4) ran together during Tuesday’s practice session at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. [Russ Lake Photo]

    JR Hildebrand (#4), who set the second fastest speed of the day, ran with Andretti Autosport teammates Ryan Hunter-Reay (#1) and Carlos Munoz (#26) during practice at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Tuesday. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Marco Andretti, driving the #25 RC Cola car for Andretti Autosport, posted the fastest lap of the month at 225.100 mph Monday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Note that the car prominently features Milwaukee IndyFest.com, promoting the Milwaukee IZOD IndyCar Series race on June 15. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Waiting on pit lane for Conor Daly to begin his Rookie Orientation Program Monday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway were (left to right) two time Indy 500 winner Arie Luyendyk, who serves as a driver coach for the IZOD IndyCar Series, former Indinapolis 500 driver and Conor’s father, Derek Daly and Jack Housby, who is an associate sponsor of the ABC Supply Co./AJ Foyt Racing team. Housby also served on the recent three-man NASCAR appeals panel that greatly reduced the penalties on the Joe Gibbs Racing team for an engine rule infraction. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Conor Daly went through the required phases of the Rookie Orientation Program (ROP) at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Monday morning. After Daly completed the ROP he is eligible to practice anytime the track is open for practice. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Car owner Dale Coyne conferred with Pippa Mann as Mann prepared to go onto the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Monday morning to complete her refresher test. She was required to take the refresher as she did not compete in last year’s Indy 500. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Pippa Mann, driving for Dale Coyne Racing, completed her refresher test Monday at the Indianapolis Motor speedway. She is now eligible to practice any time the track is open for practice. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Rookie Driver Carlos Munoz, fastest rookie in practice Saturday, and fastest overall on Sunday (223.023 mph), rips off a visor tearoff while motoring down pit lane during Sunday’s practice session at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Ryan Hunter-Reay is enjoying his time as the defending IZOD Indycar Series champion as he was happy to pose while on his golf cart with a big grin and one finger held in the air, indicating his championship status, as well as this year’s car number, Sunday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Team owner, AJ Foyt (left), and team manager, Larry Foyt, sat atop the "war wagon" pit box during Sunday’s practice session at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Ed Carpenter, who was fastest in Saturday’s opening practice session, took to the track on Sunday for practice at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in his #20 Fuzzy’s Premium Vodka-sponsored car. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Indianapolis 500 veteran Oriol Servia (#22) practiced on Sunday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Servia’s team, longtime IZOD IndyCar Series car owners, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, have announced that unless more sponsorship money can be found the team will be shutting its doors for the season after the Indianapolis 500. [Russ Lake Photo]

    JR Hildebrand (#4), the 2011 Indianapolis 500 second-place finisher and Rookie of the Race, turned in practice laps at the Indianapolis Motors Speedway Sunday. [Russ Lake Photo]

    Current IZOD IndyCar Series point leader, Takuma Sato, took advantage of Saturday’s practice time at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in his #14 AJ Foyt/ABC Supply car. [Russ Lake Photo]

    AJ Almendinger took the Penske Racing #2 around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Saturday during the Rookie Orientation Program, which he completed today. Although Almendinger has extensive experience driving Indy Cars, he has never driven in the Indianapolis 500. [Russ Lake Photo]

    The 2014 Corvette Stingray Indianapolis 500 Pace Car sat on pit road prior to three-time Indy 500 winner and IZOD IndyCar Series pace car driver Johnny Rutherford taking the car onto the track for the first time. [Russ Lake Photo]

    A special tribute to the late Chris Economaki sits in Economaki’s traditional place on the fourth floor of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Media Center. Economaki, who died last fall, was considered the "dean" of motorsports journalism and also was a pioneer in motor sports telecasting. Pictured are the typewriter he always used and a photo of him in his ABC-TV Wide World of Sports blazer. [Russ Lake Photo]

    IZOD IndyCar Series point leader, Takuma Sato, was smiling as he talked to AJ Foyt Racing team manager Larry Foyt during practice Saturday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. [Russ Lake Photo]

Sunday, May 19 – Sunday was the second, and final, day of qualifying for next Sunday’s Indianapolis 500.

It was a day of triumph for Katherine Legge and a day of sorrow for Michel Jourdain Jr.

Legge just signed to drive the third Schmidt Peterson Racing entry Saturday morning. She had just 24 laps of practice this morning before making a successful qualifying attempt to become the 33rd qualifier for the race.

Michel Jourdain Jr. had signed with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing to run only the Indianapolis 500. Jourdain practiced every day the track was open. The team tried the set-up of both of his teammates cars on the car and teammate Graham Rahal took the car out to try to set it up, but it all was to no avail. Whatever the team tried, they could not get the car up to speed and Jourdain was the only driver entered who ended up not in the field.

Jourdain was devastated by the situation. “We know, for sure, that there is something wrong with the car, for sure. Something bent, broken, loose, bending. Something is broken in the middle of the car we have not seen. There is something wrong; we don’t know,” he said.

Josef Newgarden was the fastest qualifier of the day with a four-lap average speed of 225.731 mph. He was the only driver to qualify today with a speed that was faster than some of Saturday’s qualifiers, but the second day qualifiers start behind the first day qualifiers, regardless of speed.

The field for the Sunday, May 26 Indianapolis 500 is now complete.

There will be no on-track activity at the Speedway until Thursday May 23. Thursday the Firestone Indy Lights will take to the track for practice and qualifying for Friday’s Freedom 100 Firestone Indy Lights race.

2013 Indianapolis 500 Line-up

Row 1

1 – #20 Ed Carpenter 228.762 mph C

2 ??- #26 Carlos Munoz 228.342 mph C

3 – #25 Marco Andretti 228.261 mph C

Row 2

4 – # 6 EJ Viso 228.150 mph C

5 – # 2 AJ Almendinger 228.099 mph C

6 – #12 Will Power 228.087 mph C

Row 3

7 – # 1 Ryan Hunter-Reay 227.904 mph C

8 – # 3 Helio Castroneves 227.762 mph C

9 – #27 James Hinchcliffe 227.070 mph C

Row 4

10 – # 4 JR Hildebrand 227.441 mph C

11 – #98 Alex Tagliani 227.386 mph H

12 – #11 Tony Kanaan 226.949 mph H

Row 5

13 – #22 Oriol Servia 226.814 mph C

14 – #19 Justin Wilson 226.370 mph H

15 – # 7 Sebastien Bourdais 226.196 mph C

Row 6

16 – # 9 Scott Dixon 226.158 mph H

17 – #10 Dario Franchitti 226.069 mph H

18 – #14 Takuma Sato 225.892 mph H

Row 7

19 – #83 Charlie Kimball 225.880 mph H

20 – #16 James Jakes 225.809 mph H

21 – #77 Simon Pagenaud 225.674 mph H

Row 8

22 – #60 Townsend Bell 225.643 mph C

23 – # 8 Ryan Briscoe 225.265 mph H

24 – #78 Simona de Silvestro 225.226 mph C

Row 9

25 – #21 Josef Newgarden 225.731 mph H

26 – #15 Graham Rahal 225.007 mph H

27 – # 6 Sebastian Saavedra 224.929 mph C

Row 10

28 – #55 Tristan Vautier 224.873 mph H

29 – #18 Ana Beatriz 224.184 mph H

30 – #63 Pippa Mann 224.005 mph H

Row 11

31 – #41 Conor Daly 223.582 mph H

32 – #91 Buddy Lazier 223.442 mph C

33 – #81 Katherine Legge 223.176 mph H

All cars have Dallara Chassis and Firestone Tires
C=Chevrolet Engine H= Honda Engine

Saturday, May 18 – It’s Pole Qualifying Day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway!

Normally, this report is done in chronological order, but this is not a normal day.

Fast Nine qualifying, which was originally scheduled for 4:30 p.m., did not begin until 6:30 p.m., and due to weather conditions, rather than having a full 1-1/2 hours of time to make as many attempts as possible, each team of the Fast Nine had only one attempt at qualifying.

When all was said and done, Ed Carpenter Racing proved to

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