Australian driver Will Power continued Team Penske’s domination of qualifying by earning the pole for the Camping World Grand Prix at the famous Watkins Glen circuit in New York.

Power, who currently leads the points score set a top lap of 1 minute, 29.3164 seconds, 135.832 mph in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske machine to keep Team Penske’s perfect pole record over the six years of this race at Watkins Glen.

Team Penske drivers swept the top three spots in the Firestone Fast Six shootout. Helio Castroneves qualified second at 1:29.4609, 135.612 in the No. 3 entry, while Power’s Aussie compatriot Ryan Briscoe was third at 1:29.9346, 134.898 in the No. 6 entry.

It was the first time this season one team has swept the front row in qualifying. The top three rows were separated by less than a second. Six different teams are represented in the first six rows.

Reigning IZOD IndyCar Series champion Dario Franchitti qualified fourth at 1:29.9601, 134.860 in the No. 10 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car, with rookie Takuma Sato fifth at 1:30.1410, 134.589 in the No. 5 Lotus-KV Racing Technology entry.

2009 Watkins Glen winner Justin Wilson rounded out the Firestone Fast Six at 1:30.2667, 134.402 in the No. 22 Team Z-Line Designs/Dreyer & Reinbold Racing car.

Penske will seek its first victory in the event when the race starts at 3:30 p.m. (ET) Sunday, July a4 (the race can be seen in Australia on ESPN available on FOXTEL cable, we poor people can listen to audio commentary via the Indycar website www.indycar.com.)

with Indycar Media