Ryan Hunter-Reay, who has won the past three IZOD IndyCar Series races, added his first pole of the season to his list of accomplishments.The series championship points leader, driving the No. 28 Team DHL/Dr Pepper car for Andretti Autosport, recorded a lap of 1 minute, 17.2338 seconds (103.664 mph) on the 2.224-mile, 13-turn City Centre Airport circuit in the Firestone Fast Six shootout to claim the pole for the Edmonton Indy.It was the second earned Indy car pole for Hunter-Reay, whose last came in 2004. He'll incur a 10-grid spot penalty, however, the result of an unapproved change of the Chevrolet engine following his victory on the streets of Toronto two weeks ago."It was great we picked up a championship point for the pole, but too bad we will be starting 11th instead of first because of the engine change," Hunter-Reay said. "(The race) will be really interesting for everyone."Dario Franchitti, who started from the pole in each of Hunter-Reay's victories, will share Row 1 with Team Penske's Ryan Briscoe. Franchitti, driving the No. 10 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car, was .0108 of a second off Hunter-Reay's pace in attempting to earn his 30th Indy car pole.Also on July 21, polesitter Carlos Munoz regained the lead on Lap 17 of 40 following a Lap 14 pit stop to have rain tires replaced with slicks and went on to victory in the Edmonton 100.It was the first Firestone Indy Lights win for the 20-year-old Colombian in the No. 26 Team Dialy-Ser car for Andretti Autosport."It was a crazy race with rain," said Munoz, wrapped in the Colombian flag in Victory Circle. "Once it was dry, the car was unbelievable."Sebastian Saavedra, driving the No. 27 Team AFS car, was 8.3453 seconds back and Esteban Guerrieri finished third in the No. 11 Pistas Argentinas/Sam Schmidt Motorsports with Curb Agajanian car.Guerrieri, the 2011 race winner who notched his seventh podium of the season, holds a 27-point lead over Saavedra in the championship heading to the event in two weeks in Quebec. DAY 2 NOTEBOOK:

IZOD IndyCar Series officials have penalized #12 Power and #22 Servia 10 grid spots for an unapproved engine change following qualifying. With the penalty, the following cars have 10 grid spot penalties for this weekend's event: #9 Dixon (Sixth engine), #12 Power (Unapproved engine change), #22 Servia, #28 Hunter-Reay (Unapproved engine change) and #78 De Silvestro (Sixth engine at Toronto).***Proudly displaying their patchwork Tony Kanaan flag along the lane leading to the City Circle Centre Airport circuit, Atsushi and Miwa Hagiya wait for their racing hero to pass by on the way to the first IZOD IndyCar Series practice for the Edmonton Indy.     In his stroller, Yuma is more interested in his cereal snack. But Yuma, who turned 1 on July 10 and whose middle name is TK, is decked out in his replica Kanaan firesuit to also show his allegiance. There are spectators wearing various driver and IZOD IndyCar Series gear at the venue, but the Hagiya family isn't outdone.The family, from Ibaraki, Japan, attended each of the IZOD IndyCar Series events at Twin Ring Motegi and adopted the 2004 series champion as the one to cheer for following an autograph session at the track."I received Tony's autograph -- the first for me -- and he also offered to have (my) picture taken with him," says Atsushi, who also was a fan of another Brazilian driver, Arynton Senna. "I have that photo on my ticket flag, and since that time I became a huge fan of Tony's."The family has an expanding Kanaan museum in their home -- "INDYCAR East" -- which includes a Kanaan helmet that Atsushi won in the auction last fall to support the Dan Wheldon Memorial Trust.This trip to Canada was long in the making as a family vacation, and they hope to collect more memories at the racetrack.***IZOD INDYCAR SERIES POLE QUALIFYING:IZOD IndyCar Series Pole Qualifying consists of three segments. In Segment One of qualifying, each group receives 15 minutes of track time. The fastest six cars from each group advance to Segment Two, while the remaining cars are assigned positions 13-26. Group One drivers will occupy the odd-numbered positions (13, 15, 17...) while Group Two drivers will occupy the even-numbered positions (14, 16, 18...) based on their fastest lap times.During Segment Two, the 12 advancing cars receive 10 minutes of track time. The fastest six advance to the Firestone Fast Six Shootout while the remaining six cars are ranked in positions 7-12 based on their fastest laps.During the Firestone Fast Six, the six cars receive 10 minutes of track time, with a guarantee of five minutes of green flag time. Each car receives one additional set of Firestone Firehawk tires for use during this final segment. At the end of the session, the cars are ranked 1-6 based on their fastest laps.

Any driver who causes a red flag during any of the groups will lose their two quickest laps.The time line for qualifying today is at the exit of Turn 13.The lap record is 1:18.1481 seconds set by Will Power in Q2 last year. Fastest Lap this weekend: #3 Helio Castroneves 01:16.4920 (Practice #2 - Friday)At 12:45 p.m., the ambient temperature was 70 degrees with a relative humidity of 67 percent. Skies were mostly cloudy. The track temperature was 88 degrees, according to Firestone engineers.1 p.m. - GREEN. Round 1, Group 1.1:15 p.m. - CHECKERED. Advancing to Round 2 are: #12 Power (1:15.9508), #98 Tagliani, #15 Sato, #2 Briscoe, #9 Dixon and #77 Pagenaud.1:20 p.m. - GREEN. Round 2. Group 2.1:34 p.m. -Rain falling on portions of the circuit, with surface changes reported in Turns 1 and 5.1:35 p.m. - CHECKERED. Advancing to Round 2 are: #28 Hunter-Reay, #27 Hinchcliffe, #10 Franchitti, #3 Castroneves, #38 Rahal, #8 Barrichello.1:40 p.m. - GREEN. Round #2.

At 1:45 p.m., the ambient temperature was 65 degrees with a relative humidity of 89 percent. Skies were mostly cloudy and rain was falling over portions of the circuit. The track temperature was 76 degrees, according to Firestone engineers.1:45 p.m. - All cars on course using the wet tires. Fastest is #15 Sato with a lap of 1:29.1697.1:48 p.m. -- #12 Power takes fastest lap at 1:28.4500, then Sato resets fastest lap at 1: 27.2904.1:50 p.m. - CHECKERED. #15 Sato sets fastest lap 1:26.6013. Advancing to Firestone Fast Six are: #15 Sato, #3 Castroneves, #2 Briscoe, #10 Franchitti, #98 Tagliani and #28 Hunter-Reay. #2 Briscoe bumped #12 Power out of Fast Six on his final lap.At 2 p.m., the ambient temperature was 66 degrees with a relative humidity of 90 percent. Skies were mostly cloudy. The track temperature was 79 degrees, according to Firestone engineers.2 p.m. - GREEN. Firestone Fast Six.

2:05 p.m. - Fastest of the session is #2 Briscoe at 1:17.9336.2:08 p.m. - #28 Hunter-Reay sets fastest lap at 1:17.2338.2:10 p.m. - CHECKERED. Rain reported in Turn 1. #28 Hunter-Reay wins the pole for the Edmonton Indy.IZOD INDYCAR SERIES POST-QUALIFYING NOTES:This is Ryan Hunter-Reay's first pole of 2012 and his second career Indy car pole. His last pole came at Milwaukee in 2004It is Hunter-Reay's best qualifying effort at Edmonton. His previous best start was seventh at Edmonton in 2011This the 23rd Indy car pole for Andretti AutosportAndretti Autosport cars qualified on the pole for each of the Mazda Road to Indy races at Edmonton. Sage Karam won the pole in Star Mazda, Carlos Munoz won the pole in Firestone Indy Lights and Hunter-Reay won the pole in IZOD IndyCar Series.Dario Franchitti qualified second, it is his first front row start at Edmonton and his fourth consecutive top-six qualifying appearance at Edmonton.Ryan Briscoe qualified third, his fifth consecutive top six start at Edmonton.Takuma Sato qualified a season-best fourth.

Alex Tagliani qualified fifth, his best start at Edmonton

EDMONTON 100 RACE SPECIFICS (FIRESTONE INDY LIGHTS) RACE SPECIFICS:The race is 45 laps or 60 minutes, whichever comes first, on the 11-turn, 1.755 -mile street course.The pit road speed limit is 45 mph.Pole sitter Carlos Munoz has opted to grid on driver's left.The green flag to start the race will be show the second time by the start-finish line.Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Johnny Rutherford will drive the Honda Civic Si Safety CarThe race leader will accelerate exiting Turn 13 on restarts.EDMONTON 100 (FIRESTONE INDY LIGHTS) RACE RUNNING:3:15 p.m. - Firestone Indy Lights officials have declared a wet start to the race. All teams must begin the race on rain tires.At 3:15p.m., the ambient temperature was 68 degrees with a relative humidity of 58 percent. Skies were cloudy. The track temperature was 74 degrees, according to Firestone engineers.3:31 p.m. - Command to start engines. All cars are running and rolling on the grid.Lap 1: GREEN: #26 Munoz leads the field into Turn 1. #11 Guerrieri passes for the lead in Turn 1.Lap 2: #26 Munoz makes pass for the lead in Turn 6. #27 Saavedra passes Guerrieri for second in Turn 13. #26 Munoz leads #27 Saavedra by 1.8308 seconds.Lap 5: #26 Munoz leads #27 Saavedra by .8254 of a second.Lap 8: #26 Munoz leads #27 Saavedra by 1.2098 seconds.Lap 10: #26 Munoz leads #27 Saavedra by 1.8010 seconds.

Lap 11: #2 Yacaman on pit lane for four slick tires.

Lap 12: #7 Webb on pit lane for four slick tires.Lap 13: Leaders #26 Munoz and #27 Saavedra on pit road for four slick tires. #3 Carbone also pits. New leader is #77 Vautier.Lap 14: #11 Guerrieri, #9 Dempsey and #76 Garcia on pit road for four slick tires.Lap 15: Leader, #77 Vautier, and #22 Ostella on pit lane for four slick tires. New leader is #4 Goncalvez, who leads Munoz by 15.1222 seconds.Lap 17: #26 Munoz passes #4 Goncalvez for the lead in Turn 13.

Lap 18: #27 Saavedra passes #4 Goncalvez for second place. #26 Munoz leads #27 Saavedra by 3.3366 seconds.Lap 20: #26 Munoz leads #27 Saavedra by 3.7636 seconds.Lap 23: #26 Munoz leads #27 Saavedra by 6.3007 seconds.Lap 25: #26 Munoz leads #27 Saavedra by 8.6352 seconds.Lap 30: #26 Munoz leads #27 Saavedra by 11.1186 seconds.Lap 33: #26 Munoz leads #27 Saavedra by 12.0268 seconds.Lap 36: #26 Munoz leads #27 Saavedra by 11.1119 seconds.Lap 39: WHITE: #26 Munoz leads #27 Saavedra by 9.6304 seconds.Lap 40: CHECKERED: #26 Carlos Munoz wins the Edmonton 100 by 8.3453 seconds.EDMONTON 100 POST-RACE NOTES:This is Carlos Munoz' first Firestone Indy Lights victory. His previous best finish was second, which he accomplished at Belle Isle and IndianapolisSebastian Saavedra finished second, his best finish at Edmonton and his sixth podium finish of the season. His previous best finish at the track was third in 2009Esteban Guerrieri finished third, his seventh podium finish of the season.

UNOFFICIAL FIRESTONE INDY LIGHTS POINTS1.         Esteban Guerrieri        3512.         Sebastian Saavedra      3243.         Tristan Vautier 3234.         Gustavo Yacaman       2955.         Victor Carbone            277EDMONTON 100 POST-RACE QUOTES:CARLOS MUNOZ (No. 26 Team Dialy-Ser, winner Edmonton 100): "It was a crazy race with rain. Once it was dry, the car was unbelievable. The guys did an awesome job all weekend; first in practice, first in qualifying, first in warm-up and now the race. It's impossible to do any better. And the pit stop, the guys just did an incredible job. Still Esteban was a little bit faster than me, but I knew I was really fast. I took it slow and I overtook him. After that I pushed a lot. I have to thank my guys. I'm really happy to get my first win.  

SEBASTIAN SAAVEDRA (No. 27 Team AFS, finished second): "It's a great result for the team, especially after a bad qualifying result on my side. We knew that the points were very important. Right now we're second in the championship and that's incredible for us. 1-2 for Andretti Autosport, that's amazing effort by the guys.   We had an amazing pit stop. I really want to thank my guys, and congratulations to (teammate) Carlos (Munoz). He was in a race of his own. It was a great battle. Lots of respect for Esteban Guerrieri, he's shown incredible sportsmanship during the season."ESTEBAN GUERRIERI (No. 11 Pistas Argentinas/SSM with Curb-Agajanian): "It's those days that you have to get the best that you can. Even if I was leading, I felt like it was tough to be on the pace in the wet. It took me a little bit slow, but when [Saavedra and Munoz] were there I tried to overtake and just stay away from the mistakes. You could see the track was quite quick, different from qualifying when the track took a long time to dry, but now it dried quite quick so all the sudden we found out that it was a dry track and the stop was crucial. We saw the Andretti guys pitting one lap before and they came out, and I saw Oli [Webb] coming out in front of me, so I felt like it was time for pit for slicks. And the Sam Schmidt guys even if they are not very used to pit stops, they made good time and tried not to hurry and make a mistake, so that's what they did. What's important that we scored more points and we kept on top of the championship which is what matters, and another podium is important."OLIVER WEBB (No. 7 Lucas Oil/Sam Schmidt Motorsports): "I had a good start, but Esteban had a really good start in front of me. He dictated the start because he got on the throttle and went straight to the front. We went three abreast into the corner and I made up one place going down the back straight. Then on the outside with Tristan going into Turn 5 I ended up in the grass and lost four places. That was all on lap one. From there I had to work my way back up. I gained two spots and decided to come in pretty early for slick tires. From there it was a case of making sure I had the temperature in the car before everyone else. Our car was pretty good. We had a good set up but it was just a little too late because the Andretti cars had such good pit stops." PETER DEMPSEY (No. 9 Belardi/TruFuel, finished fifth): "Not the plan, for sure. Munoz on pole jumped the start. He went before (the spot) we talked about in the drivers' meeting and it caught me off guard. I went to the radio to say he jumped the start, and I hit the ignition switch and it dropped me back to the back. Once I got back there, there was not much I could do. It was damp and I couldn't see, so I just tried to get into a rhythm and pick them off one by one. Sorry for the team. We had a good car all weekend. We were in the top two since we got here, and they deserved a podium. The Belardi Auto Racing TruFuel car had good performance all weekend. Maybe I am just a little race rusty. I need to keep plugging away. We brought home another top five for the team and we're getting closer to the podium."TRISTAN VAUTIER (No. 77 Mazda Road to Indy/SSM with Curb-Agajanian): "It was a rough day, though it started off really well. My pace in the rain was really good and I was actually able to get up to third after falling back to sixth at the start. Then everything was good. I was trying to run clean laps, not make mistakes and not abuse my tires. Unfortunately, my earplugs unplugged themselves so I couldn't hear my crew when they told me when to stop to change tires. I saw Esteban pitting behind me, so I went one more lap and then pitted. We lost some time in the pits, and that put me in some battles with guys on the track and I just got on a bad pace.Then, I felt like we lacked some speed on the dry. Yes, it was a tough weekend. For some reason, we never could get it to click today."VICTOR CARBONE (No. 3 Mav TV/Nevoni/SSM with Curb-Agajanian): "I had a really good start. But after that, Gus (Gustavo Yacaman) tried to pass me, we touched and the car wasn't the same after that. Once we touched, I struggled after that. He didn't give me any space. It was just stupid to be honest. It was challenging during the weekend to go from wet to dry a few times, but I think it's fun. The race wasn't fun. It was just a bad weekend overall. We'll do better at Trois Rivires."DAVID OSTELLA (No. 22 TMR-Global Precast-Xtreme Coil Drilling): "I had a phenomenal start. I think I passed four or five guys on the start. The car was great in the rain and we were doing really well in the initial stint of the race. When the sun came out it was all about coming in to change tires. Unfortunately I think we came in a lap or two too late. After that we just made sure that we stayed consistent and conserved the tires in case I had a battle at the end, which I did. I ended up spinning in the last lap on Turn 12 though. It's not the way we wanted the weekend to go but it's still a top-10. We struggled finding speed here in Edmonton, but we were able to resolve the braking issue that we had in Toronto."

SUNDAY'S SCHEDULE: (All times local)8-8:30 a.m. - IZOD IndyCar Series warmup9:30 - 10:15 a.m. - Star Mazda Race #2 (30-minutes).Noon. - Edmonton Indy pre-race

12:40 p.m. - "Drivers, start your engines"12:47 p.m. - Edmonton Indy (75 laps), NBC Sports Network/TSN2 (Live)