O'Ward wins Pro Mazda pole

Pato O'Ward edged Aaron Telitz in leading a Team Pelfrey 1-2 in Pro Mazda qualifying this morning at St. Petersburg. The Cape Motorsports pair of Jake Eidson and Nico Jamin followed n third and fourth with the Team Pelfrey car of Weiron Tan fifth.

O'Ward will lead the field to the green flag in the opening round of the 2016 Pro Mazda season at 10:50 a.m. ET.

P	No	Name	FTime	Diff	Laps	FL	Gap	Speed	FSpeed	Team
1	80	Pato O'Ward	1:11.572	0.000	11	8	0.000	78.239	90.538	Team Pelfrey
2	82	Aaron Telitz	1:11.648	0.0758	14	9	0.0758	84.505	90.442	Team Pelfrey
3	3	Jake Eidson	1:11.719	0.1467	12	11	0.0709	90.102	90.353	Cape Motorsports w/WTR
4	2	Nico Jamin	1:11.838	0.2661	15	12	0.1194	89.855	90.202	Cape Motorsports w/WTR
5	81	Weiron Tan	1:11.930	0.3573	13	8	0.0912	89.576	90.088	Team Pelfrey
6	00	Jake Parsons	1:11.939	0.3671	14	12	0.0098	90.019	90.076	Juncos Racing
7	23	Will Owen	1:11.000	0.4274	14	14	0.0603	90.000	90.000	Juncos Racing
8	5	Garett Grist	1:12.234	0.6615	14	13	0.2341	88.454	89.709	Juncos Racing
9	21	Jorge Cevallos	1:12.385	0.8124	14	14	0.1509	89.522	89.522	JDC MotorSports
10	31	Nicolas Dapero	1:12.760	1.1878	13	13	0.3754	89.060	89.060	Juncos Racing
11	13	Bobby Eberle*	1:14.076	2.5040	15	14	1.3162	86.827	87.477	World Speed Motorsports
12	37	Jay Horak*	1:14.770	3.1977	12	9	0.6937	85.946	86.666	M1 Racing