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Team Penske's Helio Castroneves had earned pole for Sunday's IndyCar event in Iowa but because of an unauthorized engine change, the Brazilian has been penalized and will have to start 10th on the grid.

Castoneves will be able to keep the extra nine points he gained for having won the final heat, but teammate Will Power, who finished runner-up at the 7/8th mile oval on Saturday evening, will start on pole.

Castroneves is one of four drivers facing grid penalties for engine changes, with penalties also having been applied to Scott Dixon - who had qualified fifth - James Jakes and Josef Newgarden.

Castroneves had started the ultimate heat from pole and, apart from being challenged by Power in the final 10 laps, the veteran never had to look back until the checkered flag.

Andretti Autosport's James Hinchcliffe and Marco Andretti ended-up third and fourth while Ganassi's Scott Dixon finished best of the Honda-powered drivers in fifth.

The two previous heats were quite different, the first one being more of a procession, where the other one was hard-fought, especially between Graham Rahal and Ed Carpenter with only four laps to go that ended early when James Jakes lost control of his car two laps later.

Qualifying results - Iowa (IndyCar)

Heat 1
1 - Scott Dixon (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Ganassi - 50 laps
2 - Takuma Sato (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Foyt - 0"7768
3 - Alex Tagliani (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Herta - 2"2856
4 - Ryan Hunter-Reay (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Andretti - 2"6547
5 - Josef Newgarden (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Fisher - 6"2337
6 - Ana Beatriz (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Coyne - 11"0839
7 - Sebastian Saavedra (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Dragon - 14"2120
8 - Sebastien Bourdais (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Dragon - 14"6719
9 - Dario Franchitti (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Ganassi - 15"9379

Heat 2
1 - Graham Rahal (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Rahal - 50 laps
2 - Ed Carpenter (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Carpenter - 0"5428
3 - Simon Pagenaud (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Schmidt - 2"1748
4 - Justin Wilson (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Coyne - 3"9980
5 - Tristan Vautier (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Schmidt - 16"5997
6 - Charlie Kimball (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Ganassi - 17"4519
7 - Ernesto Viso (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Andretti - 24"3545
8 - James Jakes (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Rahal - 2 laps
9 - Simona de Silvestro (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - KV - 3 laps

Heat 3
1 - Helio Castroneves (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Penske - 50 laps
2 - Will Power (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Penske - 3"1480
3 - James Hinchcliffe (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Andretti - 4"4390
4 - Marco Andretti (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Andretti - 4"9046
5 - Scott Dixon (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Ganassi - 6"5829
6 - Ed Carpenter (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Carpenter - 8"3003
7 - Takuma Sato (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Foyt - 11"2950
8 - Tony Kanaan (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - KV - 16"0737
9 - Graham Rahal (Dallara DW12-Honda) - Rahal - 1 lap
10 - Oriol Servia (Dallara DW12-Chevy) - Panther DRR - 1 lap