Aussie Rookie, Will Power certainly made an impression today at the Milwaukee Mile, when he qualified fith on his oval debut. His highest qualifying position so far this season, Power continues his run as the fastest Rookie driver.
Sebastion Bourdais took pole postion, and his team-mate Bruno Junqueira made it an all Newmann-Hass front row. AJ Allmendinger was third followed by fellow RuSport driver Justin Wilson. The unique oval qualifying system which allows each driver two single laps, was another first for Power. The order of qualifying was determined by the morning warmup session, which meant that the Team Australia driver was the last rookie to go out - the track is usually considered better the later you run, so having the final slot is seen as an advantage. That honour when to Bourdais, who was the fastest in the Saturday morning session. Paul Tracey, last year's winner of the Milwaukee race, was one driver who didn't capatalise on his qualifing slot and will start from P10 on the grid.
Power's team mate Alex Tagliani suffered a car damaging incident that forced him to miss qualifying. So, although he has been cleared by the Champ Car doctor to race tomorrow, he will start from second-last on the grid. (Christiano da Matta was the only other driver not to qualify, also due to an accident in the morning practice).

The race starts at 2pm Sunday local time, which is 7pm UK time and 4am Monday Australian time.