Video: NTT IndyCar Series – Birmingham Qualifying Highlights

Takuma Sato

A session that didn’t go well for those typically strong at qualifying went just fine Saturday for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing.

The team’s two drivers swept the front row for Sunday’s Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama presented by AmFirst, with Takuma Sato taking the NTT P1 Award with a last-second lap of 1 minute, 8.5934 seconds (120.711 mph) around the 17-turn, 2.3-mile Barber Motorsports Park road circuit.

That was just slightly more than a tenth of a second faster than teammate Graham Rahal and the first pole position on a road course and eighth overall in Sato’s 10 years in the NTT IndyCar Series.