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Saturday qualifying is underway. The table below shows provisional times with thirteen of the driversreporting in. Yet to come are, among others, Gugelmin, Zanardi, Rahal, Andretti, Pruett, and Vassar.
| pos | car | driver | laptime | mph | km/h | % best time |
| 1 | 18 | Mark Blundell | 52.609 | 108.803 | 175.064 | 100.00% |
| 2 | 21X | Richie Hearn | 52.654 | 108.710 | 174.914 | 100.09% |
| 3 | 2 | Al Unser Jr. | 52.927 | 108.149 | 174.012 | 100.60% |
| 4 | 9 | Dario Franchitti | 53.207 | 107.580 | 173.096 | 101.14% |
| 5 | 32 | Adrian Fernandez | 53.210 | 107.574 | 173.086 | 101.14% |
| 6 | 16 | Patrick Carpentier | 53.213 | 107.568 | 173.076 | 101.15% |
| 7 | 31 | Andre Ribeiro | 53.239 | 107.515 | 172.992 | 101.20% |
| 8 | 19 | Michel Jourdain Jr. | 53.281 | 107.430 | 172.856 | 101.28% |
| 9 | 36 | Juan Manuel Fangio II | 53.458 | 107.075 | 172.283 | 101.61% |
| 10 | 34 | Paul Jasper | 53.478 | 107.035 | 172.219 | 101.65% |
| 11 | 98 | PJ Jones | 53.950 | 106.098 | 170.712 | 102.55% |
| 12 | 25 | Max Papis | 54.336 | 105.345 | 169.499 | 103.28% |
| 13 | 24X | Hiro Matsushita | 56.167 | 101.910 | 163.974 | 106.76% |
| 14 | 64 | Dennis Vitolo | 58.307 | 98.170 | 157.956 | 110.83% |
Look for the final results of this afternoon's qualifying posted to SpeedCenter when theybecome available.