By Steve Wittich

Braden Eves was once again the quickest driver in a USF2000 qualifying session. After just missing out on the track record in the first qualifying session the Cape Motorsports rookie

Once again, Eve’s veteran teammate Keane will start alongside him, with Hunter McElrea starting third again.

Tomorrow’s race #2 will be the 10th straight race that a Cape Motorsports driver will start on the inside of the front row in a USF2000 race on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.

Christian Rasmussen (up five spots), Cameron Shield (up five spots), and Manuel Sulaiman (up four positions) were the drivers who improved the most between the pair of qualifying sessions.

The lowest rung of the Road To Indy Presented by Cooper Tires is back on track in just over two hours at 10:55 am for their second qualifying session

The lowest rung on the Road To Indy was back on the 2.439-mile, 14-turn road course after only having 2 hours and fifteen minutes to regroup after the first qualifying session.

At the half-way mark of the 20-minute session, Eves was ahead of McElrea, Sulaiman, Kaminsky, and Keane, who were all within a tenth of the provisional pole.

The first driver to grab the provisional pole in the second half of the session was Keane, with a track record-breaking lap of 84.643 seconds. His teammate Eves was right there only four-hundredths shy of Keane.

With four minutes remaining, Eves went back to the provisional pole. Further down the timing screens, McElrea, Crawford, and Sulaiman all improved, turning laps below 85 seconds.

Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Grand Prix of Indianapolis Qualifying #2 (Unofficial) Results.

RANK

CAR NO.

DRIVER

TEAM

QUICK LAP

DIFFERENCE

TOTAL LAPS

1

8

Braden Eves

Cape Motorsports

1:24.540

–.—-

13

2

2

Darren Keane

Cape Motorsports

1:24.643

0.1038

13

3

22

Hunter McElrea

Pabst Racing

1:24.667

0.1272

13

4

12

Manuel Sulaiman

DEForce Racing

1:24.871

0.3309

12

5

52

Jak Crawford

DEForce Racing

1:24.883

0.3434

12

6

27

Zach Holden

BN Racing

1:24.921

0.3810

10

7

23

Colin Kaminsky

Pabst Racing

1:24.975

0.4359

13

8

73

Cameron Shields

Newman Wachs Racing

1:25.111

0.5717

11

9

90

Manuel Cabrera

Exclusive Autosport

1:25.371

0.8315

13

10

41

Eduardo Barrichello

Miller Vinatieri Motorsports

1:25.376

0.8367

13

11

40

Jack William Miller

Miller Vinatieri Motorsports

1:25.384

0.8441

13

12

14

Alex Baron

Legacy Autosport

1:25.387

0.8478

11

13

28

Anthony Famularo

BN Racing

1:25.435

0.8954

11

14

77

Dakota Dickerson

Legacy Autosport

1:25.452

0.9124

10

15

6

Christian Rasmussen

Jay Howard Driver Development

1:25.526

0.9867

11

16

3

Reece Gold

Cape Motorsports

1:25.531

0.9909

12

17

36

Nolan Siegel

Newman Wachs Racing

1:25.544

1.0040

11

18

21

Yuven Sundaramoorthy

Pabst Racing

1:25.563

1.0238

14

19

24

Bruna Tomaselli

Pabst Racing

1:25.614

1.0746

14

20

5

Matt Round-Garrido

Jay Howard Driver Development

1:25.670

1.1304

13

21

7

Christian Bogle

Jay Howard Driver Development

1:27.528

2.9881

2

The first Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship race of the weekend rolls off at 2:45 pm. That will be a 15-lap race.