This Will Power's fifth pole of the season and the 29th of his Indy car career, tying Dario Franchitti for eighth on the all-time list. Power also won poles at St. Pete, Brazil, Mid-Ohio, Sonoma Power started on pole at Baltimore last year and went on to win race. Mike Conway qualified second, matching his best career Indy car qualifying result. He was also second at Barber in 2010. Scott Dixon qualified third, his seventh top-five qualifying effort of the season. Sebastien Bourdais qualified fourth, his fifth top-10 qualifying in his last six starts. Dario Franchitti qualified fifth, his ninth top-five qualifying effort of the season.IZOD INDYCAR SERIES POLE QUALIFYING QUOTES:WILL POWER (No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet): "This track is very physical, there are lots of turns and not many straights, especially now that they have added the chicane. It was important to get the pole in the Verizon Chevy #12 car - on a course like this it is important to start up front and additionally we gained one more point toward the Championship. Starting from the pole it is a lot easier to control your own destiny. Tomorrow we'll focus on the job at hand and think about this race and doing the best we can - the best I can and the best that the team can. Over the last few weeks we've done what we needed to do and we want to continue. This track is physical, but it is the same for everyone. It's going to be a good show for the Baltimore fans and we'll be plenty busy in the cars tomorrow afternoon. We'll be looking forward not back, that's for sure."SCOTT DIXON (No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing Honda): "I think we gave up a little bit, definitely in the chicanes, and I think it's probably going to change again overnight. It seemed to be a lot of risk to take and possibly break the car and take yourself out of Q1 and Q2 and not transferring. So tomorrow's a new day, the Target cars are always great in race prep, and throughout the race, so I feel confidence that we can race hard and definitely beat them."MIKE CONWAY (No. 14 ABC Supply Co./A.J. Foyt Racing Honda): "We got it out this morning and the balance was really good, so we didn't really change anything this weekend. The ABC Supply car has been pretty much good the rest of the time. Just sort of working on getting around the track and the challenge of the chicane. We were just trying to find a little bit more there on the last lap, and went too much. Happy to get 2nd but with the engine change will be 12th. That's a bit annoying. Could have been a front-row start. But it is what it is, the same for everyone. It is just going to make our day tomorrow a bit more challenging so we will see where we stack up during the first few laps on what we are going to do strategy."SEBASTIEN BOURDAIS (No. 7 TrueCar Dragon Racing Chevrolet): "I wish I wasn't bouncing so much. It would hurt less. It's a tough break, obviously. Sonoma was looking great. The guys have done an awesome job and the easiest part was left to go because we were on brand new red tires. I don't know if it's just going off of the race and Josef, but when I turned nothing happened. It was a pretty bad accident, and I got a very big hit inside the car. I'm physically pretty hurt right now so I don't know that will affect tomorrow. Hats off to the boys for giving me a great car and hopefully we can put it together for tomorrow."DARIO FRANCHITTI (No. 10 Lexar Media Honda): "Obviously it is the luck of the draw with which group you get, so we are happy to get through that first segment there, it was pretty tough. It is difficult here with as bumpy as the place here, and that with this chicane that you can gain 3 or 4 tenths by just what you do there. It made it pretty daunting to put a lap together, tough to put a lap together. That was part of the challenge." (About the chicane): "I think the chicane in the back stretch needs to be addressed for tomorrow. I think it's too fast right now."JAMES HINCHCLIFFE (No. 27 Team GoDaddy.com Chevrolet): "Good to be back I guess. We have had a bit of drop in performance. Some of it self-induced, some of it bad luck in a couple places. It's great to be back here in Baltimore. This event was such a success last year, and we were very happy that the race could be saved and Andretti Sport Marketing stepped up and to help kick it off. We had a bit of an interesting day yesterday just sort of dealing with some of things you deal with in a street circuit. I think everybody cooperated well and communicated well and I think that was important. Now we have a race track that I think we are pretty cool to being able to race on. And so with a little bit of the practice that we had, being a little wet this morning, we are pleased with what we were able to come up with."RYAN BRISCOE (No. 2 PPG Automotive Refinishes Team Penske Chevrolet): "The No. 2 PPG machine ran great today and it's upsetting that we weren't able to advance, but that's how competitive this series is. We have a really strong car and we'll see what we can do with it tomorrow."GRAHAM RAHAL (No. 38 Service Central Honda): "I was pushing really hard and just made a mistake. I felt really good in that area but I just hit the curb, the car completely launched in the air. Then, I hit the second one and there was just no hope. I landed on the railroad tracks and the car shot to the left. It's unfortunate because I think we were working on a really good lap. Our goal here was just to advance and get into the top-six but now we're going to start last so we have a lot of work to do."TAKUMA SATO (No. 15 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda): "It was a very frustrating qualifying session. We had a positive morning in the practice session. It started with rain and then in the end we had a few laps in the dry which gave me a very positive feeling compared to yesterday. We made good progress so we were happy with the balance and were looking forward to qualifying. I was on a warm up lap and the difference between driver (in rank) was only a half lap. I was in the middle of my second lap and other drivers had completed their second lap when the red came out and I was only warming up. I didn't even have a chance to go which is a big shame. I guess the positive that we take away is that we are back on a good pace. Hopefully in the morning warmup we make another small step and have a strong afternoon."BRUNO JUNQUEIRA (No. 67 Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing Honda): "This weekend has been a big challenge because it's been several years since I've driven a single-seater Indy car. In the first practice session I only got two laps because of the bumps on the track. In the second session I only got half an hour and the third session I finally got some laps in. So I had less time than I thought I would to get used to the car this weekend." (About qualifying 10th): "I managed to push hard in the first two laps of qualifying and ended up tenth. Who would have thought that we'd be in tenth? So I'm pretty happy with our results today. It's a shame that we have to incur a 10 spot grid penalty tomorrow for the race. But I'm really happy with the whole Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing team. They've given me a great car for my first race back in the IZOD IndyCar Series." (About doing double duty in ALMS): "I'm on the pole for the ALMS race that starts two hours after IndyCar qualifying ended, so it's a busy weekend. But I'm ready and I love this."

CHARLIE KIMBALL (No. 83 NovoLog FlexPen Honda): "It was a really good qualifying session today. It was a little busy in both groups I ran in. The No. 83 NovoLog FlexPen car was quick. With as limited practice time we got, it felt really good to get a nice lap in like that. The race will be good tomorrow. We'll use some new strategy and some new reds to move forward."ED CARPENTER (No. 20 Fuzzy's Vodka/Ed Carpenter Racing Chevrolet): "Funny thing about getting airborne at the chicane. I was making up time in the chicane. So I tried to make up more time there and I just kept getting more aggressive through that area. You know it's a risky situation through that part of the track. Many guys were hitting the wall in that section. I just got a little too much curbing and the car went flying. Luckily we landed straight and I kept going. We transferred out of the first round of qualifying with a little bit of luck. But we'll take it. We haven't had the best breaks in qualifying this year. In the second session, we tried to improve the car a bit and I was pushing hard. We almost gained a couple of spots at the end. So it was a very good day for Ed Carpenter Racing and the Fuzzy's Vodka crew. It feels good to give them a good qualifying effort this time. It has been difficult this weekend because the track has been different with each session. That has made it hard for everyone. It's the reason you have seen so many incidents too. Everyone is trying to get up to speed so quickly with a small amount of time."HELIO CASTRONEVES (No. 3 Penske Truck Rental Chevrolet): "I'm a little frustrated because I know the Penske Truck Rental team gave me a great car today and I was looking forward to qualifying. With what happened in the first session I wanted to make sure we had enough time but I didn't get much space between me and Justin. I slowed down on the lap that could have put us in the Fast Six and unfortunately pushed too hard the next lap. Now we have to refocus for tomorrow and go get a win."SIMON PAGENAUD (No. 77 Schmidt Hamilton HP Motorsports Honda): ""It's tough out there, but it's good fun. You're really dancing with the car. I really enjoy it. The crew did an awesome job trying to repair the car. Thanks to Bryan Herta's team. They gave us a wishbone from Tagliani's car to put on my HP car. It was amazing for them to do that. The car was really awesome. I think it was a car good enough for the pole, but I didn't do my job right today. I quite upset with myself."SIMONA DE SILVESTRO (No. 78 Nuclear Clean Air Energy Lotus HMV Racing Lotus): "We just didn't get a clear lap in. It's pretty frustrating because I had a really good lap going when the red flag came out. It would have been good enough to qualify maybe 16 or 17; maybe even good enough to get us into the next round. But, it's racing and now we just have to focus on the race tomorrow."JR HILDEBRAND (No. 4 National Guard Panther Racing Chevrolet): "We didn't qualify today and we'll be starting last because I crashed this morning in practice. It's a major bummer for the guys. Obviously they're having to work really hard to fix the car. It was just a particularly inopportune time to have that happen, especially with qualifying being back-to-back with that session and there's just not that much time in between, so that's certainly frustrating. I think we'll consider our options today. There were a lot of guys that had very similar issues and accidents in qualifying today and they'll be starting at the back with us. A lot of those guys are the ones that we're fighting for position in the championship right now. So that's kind of gone our way a bit. We're in a position now where we have three sets of sticker red tires for tomorrow, and I think we've got some options when it comes to strategy. It's not the optimal way to go into the race, but there are some small upsides that hopefully we'll be able to take advantage of in tomorrow's race."RYAN HUNTER-REAY (No. 28 Team DHL/Sun Drop Citrus Soda Chevrolet): ""We can manage this. Now we have two new sets of reds (Firestone alternate tires) and there are some engine penalties in front of us. We can manage it, but we really stepped on our own foot tody. That's what you get for going out the latest. We went out latest out of anybody and gave ourselves absolutely no magin for error on a red flag happening. It's part of the qualifying risk on street courses. You don't find this on ovals more on street circuits. It's part of the beast, you wait until the last possible moment to get the most rubber down on the track and obviously get the best lap time out of the car, and we got bit by that. But, this is the first time we'll have two sets of new reds in along time so maybe that will be to our advantage. We have to look at the positives and this DHL/Sun Drop team has become really good at doing that lately."MARCO ANDRETTI (No. 26 Team Dr Pepper Ten Chevrolet): "We are just struggling a bit with set up and couldn't get the car to rotate, so thats where we lost time. I think tonight we'll look at going to a set up closer to what Hinch (James Hinchcliffe) is running and hopefully be ready to make up some spots tomorrow for the Dr Pepper TEN car."E.J. VISO (No. 5 CITGO/PDVSA KV Racing Technology Chevrolet): "In this morning's practice, we continued with the problem we had yesterday with the brakes, so when I started my first run, the rear locked up and I made contact with the wall damaging the left front of my car. I didn't get any laps in that session, and it put us behind because I didn't have the chance to learn the two new corners that were put in place last night. I want to thank my crew for doing a great job repairing the car, but we went straight into qualifying under difficult circumstances and gave it my best. I was in a very competitive group, more competitive than the first group, which was going to make it very tough to get into the top six. My second lap, I brushed the wall and bent a toe link which ended my qualifying session. We will be starting in the back of the field tomorrow, which will give us some freedom to take some risks with our pit strategy in tomorrow's race and I am looking for a great result."RUBENS BARRICHELLO (No. 8 BMC/Embrase KV Racing Technology Chevrolet): "I am obviously disappointed. We had a competitive car all weekend, but I was only able to get one qualifying lap in before the red flag came out. Although I question the rules of IndyCar, the rules are the rules and therefore I was unable to have any more timed laps and we are where we are."TONY KANAAN (No. 11 GEICO/Mouser KV Racing Technology Chevrolet): "We had a fairly decent qualifying today. In the second round I made a small aero change on the car that really didn't work the way I expected, but I can't complain about starting eighth on a street course. It's definitely an improvement on our qualifying effort compared to the other street courses and I'm looking forward to having a good race tomorrow. With two races to go we need to make the most out of the points to get as close as we can to the top three in the championship."