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Frenchman Tristan Vautier ended-up his day's work Saturday with pole position at the end of a shortened Indy Lights qualifying session for the upcoming event in Baltimore.

When Emerson Newton-John crashed his Fan Force car in the new chicane, officials were forced to flag the session to clean everything up; causing the session to be shortened by no less than 7 minutes. 

Vautier, who was at the top of the timesheet then, earned pole in front of his teammate Esteban Guerrieri by more than 0.8 seconds.

Andretti's Sebastian Saavedra was third-quickest alongside team-mate Carlos Munoz.



Qualifying results - Indy Lights (Baltimore)
Pos  Driver               Team          Time        Gap
1.  Tristan Vautier      Schmidt       1m23.6893s
2.  Esteban Guerrieri    Schmidt       1m24.4943s  + 0.8050s
3.  Sebastian Saavedra   AFS/Andretti  1m24.5318s  + 0.8425s
4.  Carlos Munoz         Andretti      1m24.9580s  + 1.2687s
5.  Oliver Webb          Schmidt       1m25.0699s  + 1.3806s
6.  Gustavo Yacaman      Moore         1m25.2456s  + 1.5563s
7.  Adderly Fong         Brooks        1m26.4568s  + 2.7675s
8.  Juan Pablo García    Jeffrey Mark  1m26.6107s  + 2.9214s
9.  Jorge Goncalvez      Belardi       1m26.9396s  + 3.2503s
10.  David Ostella        Moore         1m27.3890s  + 3.6997s
11.  Emerson Newton-John  Fan Force     1m29.7625s  + 6.0732s
12.  Peter Dempsey        Belardi       1m29.9690s  + 6.2797s
13.  Victor Carbone       Schmidt