Qualifying Saturday for the Shell and Pennzoil Grand Prix of Houston Verizon IndyCar Series event on the 1.634-mile(s) MD Anderson Cancer Center Speedway at NRG Park, with qualifying position, car number in parentheses, driver, chassis-engine, time and speed in parentheses:
1. (77) Simon Pagenaud, Dallara-Honda, 59.3716 (99.078)
2. (3) Helio Castroneves, Dallara-Chevy, 59.4463 (98.953)
3. (9) Scott Dixon, Dallara-Chevy, 59.5034 (98.858)
4. (16) Luca Filippi, Dallara-Honda, 59.5523 (98.777)
5. (27) James Hinchcliffe, Dallara-Honda, 59.6528 (98.611)
6. (14) Takuma Sato, Dallara-Honda, 01:00.4037 (97.385)
7. (19) Justin Wilson, Dallara-Honda, 59.4245 (98.989)
8. (28) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Dallara-Honda, 59.5107 (98.846)
9. (11) Sebastien Bourdais, Dallara-Chevy, 59.6126 (98.677)
10. (7) Mikhail Aleshin, Dallara-Honda, 59.7003 (98.532)
11. (2) Juan Pablo Montoya, Dallara-Chevy, 59.9649 (98.097)
12. (67) Josef Newgarden, Dallara-Honda, 01:00.0312 (97.989)
13. (83) Charlie Kimball, Dallara-Chevy, 01:00.1291 (97.830)
14. (15) Graham Rahal, Dallara-Honda, 01:00.2491 (97.635)
15. (8) Ryan Briscoe, Dallara-Chevy, 01:00.2124 (97.694)
16. (25) Marco Andretti, Dallara-Honda, 01:00.3295 (97.505)
17. (20) Mike Conway, Dallara-Chevy, 01:00.2358 (97.656)
18. (12) Will Power, Dallara-Chevy, 01:00.3670 (97.444)
19. (18) Carlos Huertas, Dallara-Honda, 01:00.3106 (97.535)
20. (17) Sebastian Saavedra, Dallara-Chevy, 01:00.4224 (97.355)
21. (98) Jack Hawksworth, Dallara-Honda, 01:00.4203 (97.358)
22. (10) Tony Kanaan, Dallara-Chevy, 01:00.6919 (96.922)
23. (34) Carlos Munoz, Dallara-Honda, 01:00.4734 (97.273)