Britain’s Mike Conway took pole position for Sunday’s Indy Duel in Detroit II race in Saturday morning time trials, the first pole triumph for himself and long-time car owner Dale Coyne.

Conway completed the fastest lap around the 2.36-mile, 13-turn Belle Isle circuit in 1:18.0977 to edge fellow Englishman James Jakes by 0.0727 of a second.

Conway’s only other IndyCar start this season was at Long Beach in April, where he finished 25th driving for another team.

“We just had to hang out and see what we had and it was enough for pole,” Conway said. “Excellent job by all the guys on the team. We couldn’t have asked for much more coming into this weekend.”

Sunday’s race will be the second in as many days for IndyCar at Belle Isle in the first attempt at a double-header of two races in one weekend at the same location. Twin races are also set for later this season in Toronto and Houston.

Australia’s Will Power will start third on Sunday followed by American Ryan Hunter-Reay, the man who edged Power for last season’s points title, with E.J. Viso of Venezuela starting fifth, France’s Simon Pagenaud sixth and Scott Dixon of New Zealand seventh.

Indianapolis 500 winner Tony Kanaan of Brazil will start 19th in the field of 25.