Sebastien Bourdais captured the pole position for the Battle at the Bricks, putting the No. 01 Cadillac Racing Cadillac V-Series.R atop the starting grid for the six-hour race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Bourdais’s lap of 1:14.592 was enough to give him his first pole in nearly two dozen races at IMS between IndyCar and sports cars.

Bourdais won the pole by .225 seconds over Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Global’s Louis Deletraz. Porsche Penske Motorsport’s Mathieu Jaminet, who was quickest in practice Friday, was third fastest, then Action Express Racing’s Jack Aitken. BMW M Team RLL’s Connor de Phillippi was fifth.

There are 56 cars entered across the four top categories in the race, which will begin at 11:40 a.m. on the 14-turn, 2.39-mile road course. Peacock has flag-to-flag coverage with NBC joining at 3 p.m.

After being far from the top in this morning’s practice, Sebastien Bourdais turned a surprise flyer on his sixth lap to claim the Motul Pole Award for the No. 01 Cadillac Racing V-Series.R

The TireRack.com Battle on the Bricks is scheduled to go green at 11:40 a.m. ET Sunday morning. The race will stream live flag-to-flag on Peacock with live coverage on NBC joining in progress at 3 p.m. ET.

Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.439-mile, 14-turn road course was new to many of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship teams and drivers. Porsche Penske Motorsport used