BELLE ISLE, Mich – No more Mr. Niceguy for Alexander Rossi. Last weekend in the Indianapolis 500, Rossi was pissed at the way some of his fellow competitors raced him. See, Rossi was battling for the win and didn’t feel like he should have to maneuver around lapped either.

Then, his fuel hose had a malfunction on a late race pit stop. The 20+ second stop could have been damaging to his race winning hopes. Instead, he got a lucky caution which only dropped him from the top two to sixth. He drove like a maniac following that and battled Simon Pagenaud for the win in the end.

A late caution made him mad too as he thought Pagenaud was in fuel conservation mode while he was all out full rich on fuel.

Mad at the field.

Mad at a mechanical failure on a hose in the pits.

Mad at a late race caution.

Mad he didn’t win the race.

So much so, Rossi said prior to qualifying that he would get jealous when someone else wins the Indy 500. Since he won the 100th Running in 2016, Rossi doesn’t like to see anyone else sip the milk following an Indy 500 win. He stays off social media for a while after that due to his jealously of someone else celebrating a win that he feels like he deserves.

Rossi, said on Friday after besting the field by 0.5274-seconds in practice that he couldn’t watch highlights or rewatch the race much in general from last Sunday. He knows how it ended. He doesn’t like it.

So, he’s taking it out on the field this weekend in Belle Isle. From being over a half of a second quicker in practice on Friday is unheard of. Then, in qualifying for Saturday’s Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix (3 p.m. ET/NBC/INDYCAR Radio Network) Rossi was .2006-seconds quicker than the second best time in the 30 minute session. Again, unheard of for Indy Car these days.

This will be Rossi’s sixth time of starting on the pole in his Indy Car career. In four of his first five pole positions, Rossi won the race outright too including leading all but five laps on another street course in Long Beach in mid April. He beat the field by 20+ seconds in victory on April 14.

That’s why he’s the favorite to win on Saturday afternoon on the 2.35-mile street course.