Helio Castroneves has achieved his second pole position of the year, the fourth this season for Team Penske. The Brazilian has a good chance to get close in the championship to his teammate Will Power who has only been eighteenth. A surprising Mikhail Aleshin accompanies Penske in the first row of the start.
The classification has always begun with the Group A and Group B.
Group A had Montoya, Aleshin, Kanaan, Sato, Power, Newgarden, Rahal, Filippi, Saavedra, Wilson and Andretti. Filippi has begun leading the session with the soft tires, but Aleshin would be the leader of virtually the entire session.
Finally all drivers were using soft tires, Juan Pablo Montoya, Marco Andretti, Will Power, Sebastian Saavedra and Josef Newgarden were those who were outside the top12. And Aleshin held the provisional pole.
It was time for Group B, with Castroneves, Briscoe, Dixon, Bourdais, Huertas, Conway, Hinchcliffe, Hunter-Reay, Muñoz, Pagenaud, Kimball and Hawksworth.
As in Group A, in group B another driver of Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Simon Pagenaud, dominated the session. But at the end of session times started down the 1min00s and Castroneves would end up being the fastest and would take pole position.
Results:
| Pos. | Car | Driver | Car | Laps | |
| 1 | 3 | Helio Castroneves | BRA | Team Penske | 7 |
| 2 | 7 | Mikhail Aleshin | RUS | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports | 6 |
| 3 | 77 | Simon Pagenaud | FRA | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports | 8 |
| 4 | 15 | Graham Rahal | USA | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing | 7 |
| 5 | 11 | Sebastien Bourdais | FRA | KVSH Racing | 7 |
| 6 | 19 | Justin Wilson | GBR | Dale Coyne Racing | 8 |
| 7 | 27 | James Hinchcliffe | CAN | Andretti Autosport | 9 |
| 8 | 10 | Tony Kanaan | BRA | Target Chip Ganassi Racing | 10 |
| 9 | 34 | Carlos Muñoz | COL | Andretti Autosport – HVM Racing | 7 |
| 10 | 14 | Takuma Sato | JAP | A.J. Foyt Enterprises | 9 |
| 11 | 9 | Scott Dixon | AUS | Target Chip Ganassi Racing | 9 |
| 12 | 16 | Luca Filipi | ITA | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing | 6 |
| 13 | 18 | Carlos Huertas | COL | Dale Coyne Racing | 7 |
| 14 | 2 | Juan Pablo Montoya | COL | Team Penske | 8 |
| 15 | 8 | Ryan Briscoe | AUS | NTT Data Chip Ganassi Racing | 7 |
| 16 | 25 | Marco Andretti | USA | Andretti Autosport | 6 |
| 17 | 20 | Mike Conway | GBR | Ed Carpenter Racing | 8 |
| 18 | 12 | Will Power | AUS | Team Penske | 7 |
| 19 | 83 | Charlie Kimball | USA | Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing | 6 |
| 20 | 17 | Sebastien Saavedra | COL | KV AFS Racing | 5 |
| 21 | 28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | USA | Andretti Autosport | 8 |
| 22 | 67 | Josef Newgarden | USA | Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing | 3 |
| 23 | 98 | Jack Hawksworth | GBR | BHA / BBM with Curb-Agajanian | 5 |