DETROIT, Mich — A couple of weeks ago, Alex Palou had one pole in 49 career NTT INDYCAR SERIES starts. In his last two qualifying efforts, he’s 2-for-2.

For the second straight race, Palou will start on the pole. Palou went 1:01.8592-seconds in the third and final round in his No. 10 Dallara-Honda on Saturday afternoon to score the pole on the streets of Detroit for Sunday’s Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix (3 p.m. ET, NBC, INDYCAR Radio Network).

Among his three career poles now, they’ve come on a natural road course (Portland), a street course (Detroit) and an oval (Indianapolis).

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“I don’t know, honestly,” Palou said on having 2 poles in 2 races compared to 1 in his previous49 starts. “We’ve always been really close. We had a lot of Fast Six appearances, but we were not able to get the most of it from the used alternate tires. At IMS we had to do that.

“Here it seemed like we did a step. But, yeah, IMS road course, for example, we lacked again. We lost pole position there. We started third.

“I think we’ve always been there, just not fast enough on Fast Six. This was the first time we were able to get all of it.”

Palou has a ton of momentum leading into Sunday’s 100 lap race. In going back to last season, he has a top eight finish in each of the last seven races including two wins and a top five finish in six of them.

“It feels amazing,” Palou said of this momentum.” You need to try to ride the wave while you have it. Yeah, happy that we have a wave and that we can ride it because we know the season is really long, you have some races that don’t go that well. We need to try to make the most of it, try and win tomorrow if we have the chance because I know we will have the car to do so.

“So, yeah, we’ll give our best.”

Honda is 2-for-2 on street courses this season with taking 5 of the 6 podiums too. It went Ganassi-McLaren-Ganassi in St. Pete and Andretti-Andretti-Ganassi in Long Beach. With this race being in Chevy’s backyard, Honda has four of the top six starting spots.

Palou comes into the race weekend +20 in the standings over teammate Marcus Ericsson.