Qualifying well secondary to race results for Veach
(WorldNews Entertainment)

LONG POND, Pennsylvania - As he stood on pit road at Pocono Raceway, watching fellow competitors qualify for the ABC Supply 500, Zach Veach wasn`t really fixated on the pole position that he held through much of Saturday`s Verizon P1 Award session. The 23-year-old Andretti Autosport rookie was more mindful of the big picture in his first full-time Verizon IndyCar Series season. Pole would have been nice had the two-lap run in the No. 26 Group One Thousand One Honda held up. It didn`t. He slid to seventh - which ties his best qualifying effort - out of 22 cars. But even before the usual suspects edged past, Veach spoke...