Provisional Pole Down Under

Oriol Servia captured the provisional pole position for this weekend’s Lexmark Indy 300 at Surfer’s Paradise, Australia. After running in the top-five all day, Servia sealed the deal with a last-minute dash to the finish in the first round of qualifying. His time of 1:30.862 edged out front-runners Justin Wilson and Aussie Will Power. Sebastien Bourdais caused a red flag, losing his quickest lap during the first qualifying session.

Servia comments, “I am really happy to be on pole, really happy to give a good result to PKV. After the season I have had, I am very happy how it has turned out in the end. It's a great start for the weekend, I thought the car was already good in the morning but it was all fine, it was all about putting the lap together and there was a lot of drama everywhere. There was a red flag every time I was out there so I couldn't do a lap. It must have been the most drama in a qualifying, it was like a one lap shoot out in the end for everybody and we were just able to do a fast lap because the car was good. We need to finish like this on Sunday afternoon, I have been on pole before and I know it all counts on the last lap so that is what I am going to be working on. I would like to thank Kevin Kalkhoven, Jimmy Vasser and Mark Johnson for having the faith and believing in me for this race, and of course the crew for all their hard work. We couldn't have a better chance going in to the start of this weekend.”

Tune in to the second qualifying session Saturday, 12:20 a.m., EST and follow all the action at ChampCarWorldSeries.com

Posted by Shelly Paul, Servia Squad Feature Writer

Game On!

It’s just been released that Oriol Servia will compete in this weekend’s Lexmark Indy 300 in Surfer’s Paradise, Australia, paired with his engineer from last season, Yves Touron at PKV Racing. Servia proclaims Surfer’s Paradise is his favorite track to run each season and he will be sure to impress as he rejoins many of his same team members from last year.

Read the full details here.

Posted by Shelly Paul, Servia Squad Feature Writer