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Alonso P7 in Indianapolis qualifying

Fernando Alonso came through a delayed qualifying to put his McLaren-Honda-Andretti entry up into seventh ahead of the 101st Indianapolis 500. Saturday's qualifying was delayed by five hours due to inclement weather. Once underway Alonso clocked a four-lap average of 230.034mph to finish P7 on Saturday. That was just 0.4mph slower than the day's pace-setter, Ed Carpenter, who took P1 with a 230.468 mph. 'I think the day was smooth for us,' Alonso said. 'I think this morning when the weather came in, (it) definitely put a little bit of a stress on everyone. Obviously you have only one attempt, one shot, so you cannot get it wrong.' 'I think (it) was not perfectly OK in terms of balance, in...
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