By Patrick Stephan
The qualifying session to set the field for USF Pro 2000 started out with the air temp at 78, track up to 96 and the humidity down slightly to 74F.
Michael d’Orlando was P1 as we approached the final five minutes of the session with a lap of 1:17.5200, followed by Kiko Porto, Salvador de Alba, Jace Denmark, and Myles Rowe -mostly set on their 10th lap as driver’s came in and took fresh rubber for the final run to the end of this qualifying session.
Myles Rowe moved to P1 with his 8th lap, at 1:17.4863, just edging d’Orlando, Alba, Porto and Bijoy Garg.
Rowe still has P1 as the checkered flies, but we have several cars still on the track. Garg had moved to P4 just before the clock expired. On these final laps, Denmark moves to 7th, Jackson Lee moves forward to 14th.
Car 55 of Francesco Pizzi gets a post session penalty for qualifying interference. He is currently 16th, but we’ll see where he winds up starting after the penalty is applied.
This is Rowe’s 2nd pole (Indy GP Race #2), to go along with his three wins this season at St. Pete #2 and Sebring #1 and #2.
PROVISIONAL USF Pro 2000 Qualifying for Race #2 Results (appears to apply penalty to Pizzi):
| Pos | No. | Driver | Hometown | Best Tm | Diff | Gap | Best Speed | In Lap | Laps |
| 1 | 99 | Myles Rowe | Powder Springs GA | 1:17.4863 | 104.906 | 8 | 10 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Michael d’Orlando | Hartsdale NY | 1:17.4972 | 0.0109 | 0.0109 | 104.892 | 11 | 12 |
| 3 | 12 | Kiko Porto | Recife Brazil | 1:17.5053 | 0.019 | 0.0081 | 104.881 | 11 | 12 |
| 4 | 7 | Bijoy Garg | Stanford CA | 1:17.5434 | 0.0571 | 0.0381 | 104.829 | 11 | 12 |
| 5 | 91 | Salvador de Alba | Guadalajara Mexico | 1:17.5475 | 0.0612 | 0.0041 | 104.823 | 11 | 13 |
| 6 | 90 | Yuven Sundaramoorthy | Oconomowoc WI | 1:17.5556 | 0.0693 | 0.0081 | 104.813 | 12 | 13 |
| 7 | 20 | Jace Denmark | Phoenix AZ | 1:17.5854 | 0.0991 | 0.0298 | 104.772 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | 3 | Louka St-Jean | Laval Quebec Canada | 1:17.7971 | 0.3108 | 0.2117 | 104.487 | 12 | 12 |
| 9 | 92 | Joel Granfors | Eskilstuna Sweden | 1:17.8965 | 0.4102 | 0.0994 | 104.354 | 9 | 12 |
| 10 | 40 | Jack William Miller | Westfield IN | 1:17.9515 | 0.4652 | 0.055 | 104.28 | 10 | 12 |
| 11 | 10 | Lirim Zendeli | Bochum Germany | 1:17.9566 | 0.4703 | 0.0051 | 104.273 | 9 | 13 |
| 12 | 6 | Reece Ushijima | Laguna Hills CA | 1:17.9813 | 0.495 | 0.0247 | 104.24 | 10 | 11 |
| 13 | 32 | Christian Weir | Naperville IL | 1:18.1546 | 0.6683 | 0.1733 | 104.009 | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | 47 | Jackson Lee | Indianapolis IN | 1:18.2243 | 0.738 | 0.0697 | 103.917 | 12 | 12 |
| 15 | 4 | Ricardo Escotto | Mexico City Mexico | 1:18.2384 | 0.7521 | 0.0141 | 103.898 | 10 | 11 |
| 16 | 2 | Jonathan Browne | Dublin Ireland | 1:18.3143 | 0.828 | 0.0759 | 103.797 | 9 | 12 |
| 17 | 19 | Jordan Missig | Joliet IL | 1:18.4101 | 0.9238 | 0.0958 | 103.67 | 7 | 9 |
| 18 | 55 | Francesco Pizzi | Rome Italy | 1:18.4596 | 0.9733 | 0.0495 | 103.605 | 12 | 12 |
| 19 | 81 | Nicholas Monteiro | Sao Paulo Brazil | 1:18.7395 | 1.2532 | 0.2799 | 103.237 | 11 | 13 |
| 20 | 93 | Lindsay Brewer | Denver CO | 1:19.5392 | 2.0529 | 0.7997 | 102.199 | 10 | 13 |