Nathaniel Powers has taken pole position ahead of the Toyota Japan 500 - the first IndyVirtual Triple Crown event of the season - with Felix Beyer alongside on an all Formula Virtual front row. Powers hit a top speed marginally under 205mph, with Beyer just pipping series regular and championship leader Felipe Cesar to second by 0.008mph. The Triple Crown-only entrants proved a lack of experience in the cars was no downfall as seven of the eight qualified inside the top 11, with Kip Maxwell the surprise performer for Lancashire Racing Team by lining up fourth on the grid.
Brock Kidd - the winner of the opening round - lines up fifth ahead of Nick Addison, with Lewis Ellington leading another surprise in Ezequiel Taner on the fourth row. Rounding out the top ten are some big name FV stars in the form of reigning champion Adrien Simon and new AMR recruit Will Hoskins, while Puccio Giodano had to settle for eleventh. There were also shocks at the other end of the field as Marcus Thunder, Enzo Domenicalli and Luke Stokey - all inside the top ten in the championship - qualified in the lower half of the grid; 20th, 24th and last respectively. The latter of these contributed to a session fraught with incident in which no less than five red flags flew. Stokey, Sergio Alvarez, Daniel Bruner, Didier Arnaud and Dino Palma all found the wall during the session, culminating in over an hour of delays in total to qualifying. See full classification below:
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