American Ryan Hunter-Reay captured pole position for Sunday's Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio by setting the pace in Saturday time trials, edging Australian Will Power for the top spot.
Hunter-Reay completed a lap at the 3.63 km, 13-turn road course in 1:05.3519, just 0.0049 of a second off the track record shared by Scotland's Dario Franchitti from 1999 and Brazil's Gil de Ferran from 2000, for his third pole of the season.
Power, last year's year's pole-sitter, was .1840 of a second behind with New Zealand's Scott Dixon third in qualifying for the 90-lap race.
Dixon, who has won the past two Mid-Ohio races and four of the past six, will start on the inside of row two alongside American Marco Andretti with American Charlie Kimball and Franchitti in row three.
Brazil's Helio Castroneves, who owns a 29-point lead over Dixon in the season standings, will start 15th.
"We have six races to go. Anything can happen," Dixon said. "We're not focusing on Helio. We're just focusing on what we need to do."
