Benjamin Pedersen came to Long Beach last year when he was shadowing the Foyt team and sitting in on engineering meetings with the drivers and listening on the radio during on track sessions in preparation for his rookie season in the NTT INDYCAR Series.
Driving the No. 55 Sexton Properties Chevrolet, the 23-year-old Danish-American improved his times from yesterday and will line up 23rd on the 27-car grid.
“Tomorrow, it will be my first ever Long Beach race because we didn’t race here in the INDY NXT by Firestone,” Pedersen explained. “I’m very excited — a lot can happen tomorrow. We’re just going to try to stay clean, have a good strategy and get the most out of the car that we can.”
Kyle Kirkwood won his first NTT P1 Award when he paced the final round of qualifying. He posted a lap time of one minute, 6.28 seconds (106.879mph). Rounding out the Firestone Fast Six were Marcus Ericsson, Romain Grosjean, Alex Palou, Scott Dixon and Pato O’Ward,
The race will be broadcast live on NBC starting at 3pm ET tomorrow. The 85-lap race will also be streamed live on NBC’s Peacock and INDYCAR LIVE.