DETROIT, Mich — For Sunday’s Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix (3 p.m. ET, NBC, INDYCAR Radio Network), Scott McLaughlin (1:02.1592-seconds) rolls off alongside Alex Palou on the front row in his No. 3 Dallara-Chevrolet. McLaughlin on Saturday, just didn’t have enough in the final round to score his fourth career NTT INDYCAR SERIES pole position on a beautiful Saturday afternoon in the Motor City.

“Yeah, yeah. Full credit, Alex, that was a bad-ass lap, man. Good job on the older tires there,” said McLaughlin.

“Pretty happy with P2. I’ve had a pretty average month of May in my standards. Nice to bounce back here in Detroit. New track. Rebound with a P2 to start tomorrow.”

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The Team Penske driver is hoping to get his season back on track. He came into the Month of May fourth in points after netting a win at the Barber Motorsports Park. Prior to that, he was down in 10th in points after finishes of 13th, sixth and 10th respectively.

Then came Indianapolis. He qualified 16th and 14th respectively while also literally finishing there too.

That dropped him down to sixth in points entering this weekend’s race on the downtown streets of Detroit for the first time since 1991.

The thing is, he has a good omen on his side. This was his sixth front row qualifying effort. In his previous five, he’s finished 1st (St. Pete), 2nd (Texas), 1st (Mid-Ohio), 2nd (Nashville), 1st (Portland).

Can he do so again in Sunday’s 100 lap race?

“At the same time what’s exciting for me is if you got a fast car, you can make moves,” McLaughlin said of the potential chaos on Sunday. “You can come through.

“It’s going to be all that tire life, tire life is going to be key. One thing that’s good about this track, it’s a lot of stop-start corners. If you get better runs than others, use the push to pass, I think it’s going to race similar to Nashville.

“Everyone says we crash a lot in Nashville. I think it’s going to race very well. It’s just going to be up to us with the etiquette of the drivers to leave it up to us and figure it out along the way.

“I think it’s going to race very similar to Nashville. Looking at it, there’s going to be a lot of passes, I think opportunities. Hopefully I only have to make one.”

He led 38 laps in St. Pete and if not for a late race incident on Lap 71 of 100 that day, he had a race win in sight. On another street course, he can get redemption.

“Look, it’s an important race for Chevy. World headquarters,” he said of the importance of this race being in Chevy’s backyard. “I’ve always said it, I always put more pressure on myself than anyone could put on me. It’s not just Chevy, it’s Roger Penske. Home race. A lot of partners here this weekend. I’m sponsored by a very big company that has a massive presence here, Gallagher, with Detroit Tigers. It’s a big town for them.

“Doesn’t change how much I want to win this race or the pressure to win every race that we go out in.”

Honda has won both street races this season, all three poles now and taken 5 of the 6 podiums. That’s why this is massively important that Chevy drivers are getting hardware in front of the GM headquarters on Sunday afternoon.