BELLE ISLE, Mich – It appears that Sunday’s second Dual in Detroit may have a battle like Saturday’s. This time, weather won’t be a factor.

On Saturday, Alexander Rossi said that he had the pace to get by Josef Newgarden in the end. The problem was, the rain made this a one groove race track. Now, the 2.35-mile Belle Isle street circuit is dry and for the second consecutive day, the duo will share the front row.

Newgarden (1:14.8607-seconds) earned his first pole of the season and seventh of his NTT IndyCar Series career in his No. 2 Chevrolet. The Team Penske driver won Saturday’s 75 minute timed event and will start Sunday how he ended Saturday – on top.

Rossi (1:15.1825-seconds) will start alongside in second in his No. 27 Honda. This is the same front row with the exception of Newgarden being first and Rossi second. The Andretti Autosport driver now has four front row starting spots in his last seven starts this season.

Zach Veach will start third in his No. 26 Honda after turning in a lap of 1:15.2625-seconds. Colton Herta will join Veach in Row 2 after setting a time of 1:15.6478-seconds in his No. 88 Honda. Veach, qualified eighth on Saturday and now has three top 10 starting spots in 2019. Herta, has started either fourth or fifth in four straight races now and has been in the top 11 in literally all eight races this season.

James Hinchcliffe (1:15.4393-seconds) rounded out the top five in his No. 5 Honda.

The Chip Ganassi Racing duo shared Row 2 on Saturday but will start sixth (Scott Dixon) and seventh (Felix Rosenqvist) respectively for Sunday’s 70 Lap race.

Here are my main takeaways.

RLL Surprisingly Struggled

On Saturday, RLL put both cars in the top seven of the finishing order. On Sunday, they struggled. Takuma Sato finished third on Saturday but will roll off 16th for the second race of the doubleheader weekend. Graham Rahal who started 11th and finished seventh yesterday, will start last on Sunday after having a whole host of issues before qualifying. The nearly didn’t get his car to the pits in time but when he did hit the track, he broke a gear box which resulted in his worst starting spot of 2019.

Can they charge through the field?

Rookies Quick Again

For the second consecutive day, the rookies were fast. On Saturday, Felix Rosenqvist, Colton Herta and Pato O’Ward qualified in the top 4 Rows. They’d do so again on Sunday.

Herta, qualified fourth while Rosenqvist and O’Ward will share Row 4 with them starting seventh and eighth respectively.

Penske’s Struggle

Yes, Newgarden is on the pole, but for some reason, Will Power and Simon Pagenaud struggled in qualifying. They started 12th and 13th respectively on Saturday. For Sunday, they’ll start 11th and 14th respectively.

What’s strange is, Power is not normally outside of the top 10 for qualifying. They last time he had two straight races of starting outside the top 10 was in Houston in 2014.

Until this weekend.

Saturday, was actually his worst starting position since coming from 14th at Milwaukee in 2015. His only other start besides Saturday outside of the top 10 in that time frame was actually here in Belle Isle in the first Dual (11th) in 2017. 62 of his last 65 qualifying attempts heading into this weekend saw him roll off inside of the top 10.

Honda’s Quick Again

If the race plays out on pure speed yesterday, Rossi in his Honda would likely have won. But, Newgarden had a great strategy call and the luck of a caution to give Chevy their first win on Belle Isle since 2016.

But, the finishing order saw four Honda’s in the top five and seven of the top nine overall.

For qualifying on Sunday, Honda’s earned six of the top seven starting spots and seven of the top nine again. Can they capitalize in the race later?

Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix Starting Lineup

Row 1: Josef Newgarden, Alexander Rossi

Row 2: Zach Veach, Colton Herta R

Row 3: James Hinchcliffe, Scott Dixon

Row 4: Felix Rosenqvist R, Pato O’Ward R

Row 5: Sebastien Bourdais, Spencer Pigot

Row 6: Will Power, Marcus Ericsson R

Row 7: Ed Jones, Simon Pagenaud

Row 8: Ryan Hunter-Reay, Takuma Sato

Row 9: Santino Ferrucci, Tony Kanaan

Row 10: Marco Andretti, Max Chilton

Row 11: Matheus Leist, Graham Rahal