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“ Frustration is a part of my
job. I leave with a lot of
respect for the Indy 500”
Jean Alesi puts a brave face on things
the pits],” Conway said.
“Through Turns 3 and 4
it felt a little wiggly, and
I thought it was just tyre
temperatures. But when I
went down into Turn 1
I could see one of the
endplates up in the air.”
Conway lost the rear,
caught it, lost it again, and
swung into a spin that Power,
running just behind him, had
no hope of avoiding. The
subsequent crash eliminated
both, and an errant wheel
from the collision also came
very close to taking out
Power’s team-mate Helio
Castroneves. As it was, the
stray wheel bounced off
Castroneves’s front-right
tyre and knocked the car
out of alignment, and
contributed to the Brazilian
just scraping into the top
10 at the finish.
Polesitter Ryan Briscoe
had an equally anonymous,
if less dramatic, afternoon.
He shared the lead with
Andretti’s James Hinchcliffe
during the opening phase
of the race, but then found
himself getting shuffled
back into the pack and spent
a lot of the race stuck in
traffic. The Australian
commented later that he felt
that his car was good, but
felt he might have paid
dearly for a decision to run
a little more downforce than
the Ganassi machines.
Plenty of other drivers
took their opportunities to
shine during the 200 laps.
Owner/driver Ed Carpenter
had just got himself up to
third – having started 28th
– when he lost the rear of
his car and hit the wall late
in the race, while Servia
managed to lift the Panther/
Dreyer & Reinbold entry
up to fourth without
anyone really noticing and
Hinchcliffe again took sixth,
having lost time when he
skidded over one of his air
hoses during a pitstop.
Englishman Justin Wilson
was also in the frame for a
good result before being
shuffled back during the
final restarts and finishing
a still-respectable seventh
in his Dale Coyne entry.
Rubens Barrichello picked
up best-rookie honours
with his 11th-place finish in
RESULTS IndyCar Series, Indianapolis 500 (USA), May 27, round 5 of 16
GrID
1 bRiScOE
226.484mph
4 aNDRETTi
225.456mph
7 NEwgaRDEN
224.037mph
10 b’chELLO
224.264mph
13 bEaTRiz
223.920mph
16 fRaNchiTTi
223.582mph
19 SaTO
223.392mph
22 jOURDaiN
222.893mph
25 bOURDaiS
223.760mph
28 caRpENTER
222.324mph
31 cLaUSON
214.455mph
2 hiNchcLiffE 3 hUNTER-REay
226.481mph 226.240mph
5 pOwER
225.422mph
8 kaNaaN
224.751mph
11 TagLiaNi
224.000mph
14 kimbaLL
223.868mph
17 jakES
223.482mph
20 bELL
223.134mph
23 pagENaUD
222.891mph
6 caSTRONEvES
225.172mph
9 viSO
224.422mph
12 RahaL
223.959mph
15 DiXON
223.684mph
18 hiLDEbRaND
223.422mph
21 wiLSON
222.929mph
24 SaavEDRa
222.811mph
26 cUNNiNgham 27 SERvia
223.258mph 222.393mph
29 cONway
222.319mph
32 SiLvESTRO
214.393mph
30 LEggE
221.624mph
33 aLESi
210.094mph
his debut oval race, although
fellow F1 veteran Jean Alesi’s
Indy 500 debut was less
auspicious. He, along with
the other Lotus-powered
runner Simona de Silvestro,
were black-flagged after a
handful of laps for being
outside the 105 per cent
cut-off point on speed.
Virtually every one of the
33 drivers in the field had a
story to tell but, this year
at least, many were forced
to accept second billing.
A year on from Wheldon’s
extraordinary second Indy
500 win, the Brit continued
to make his presence felt,
and the close ties that the
top three finishers had
to him only further
amplified what would
have been a dramatic
race by any standards.
“I don’t think it could
have been a better result
for Dan,” Kanaan reflected.
“Wherever he is right now,
he’s definitely making fun
of Sato. And he’s giving
Dario a tap on the back,
for sure. And he is going
to call me a wanker that
I didn’t win this thing.”
milestone
Briscoe’s pole is first
for Chevy at Indy 500
since Bruno Junqueira
in 2002 at 231.342mph
Andretti makes a
pitlane pass on grass!
Hinchcliffe was a
contender throughout
200 lApS, 500 MIleS
poS DrIver (nAtIonAlItY) teAM CAr tIMe GrID
1 Dario Franchitti (GB) Chip Ganassi racing Dallara-honda DW12 2h58m51.2532s 16
2 Scott Dixon (nZ) Chip Ganassi racing Dallara-honda DW12 +0.0295s 15
3 tony Kanaan (Br) Kv racing technology Dallara-Chevrolet DW12 +0.0677s 8
4 oriol Servia (e) panther/Dreyer & reinbold racing Dallara-Chevrolet DW12 +2.9166s 27
5 ryan Briscoe (AUS) team penske Dallara-Chevrolet DW12 +3.6721s 1
6 James hinchcliffe (CDn) Andretti Autosport Dallara-Chevrolet DW12 +4.0962s 2
7 Justin Wilson (GB) Dale Coyne racing Dallara-honda DW12 +4.2430s 21
8 Charlie Kimball (USA) Chip Ganassi racing Dallara-honda DW12 +4.6056s 14
9 townsend Bell (USA) Schmidt-pelfrey Motorsports Dallara-honda DW12 +5.6168s 20
10 helio Castroneves (Br) team penske Dallara-Chevrolet DW12 +7.6352s 6
11 rubens Barrichello (Br) Kv racing technology Dallara-Chevrolet DW12 +7.9240s 10
12 Alex tagliani (CDn) Bryan herta Autosport Dallara-honda DW12 +8.2543s 11
13 Graham rahal (USA) Chip Ganassi racing Dallara-honda DW12 +8.7539s 12
14 Jr hildebrand (USA) panther racing Dallara-Chevrolet DW12 +11.3423s 18
15 James Jakes (GB) Dale Coyne racing Dallara-honda DW12 +13.4494s 17
16 Simon pagenaud (F) Schmidt hamilton hp Motorsports Dallara-honda DW12 +14.1382s 23
17 takuma Sato (J) rahal letterman lanigan racing Dallara-honda DW12 199 laps-accident 19
18 eJ viso (Yv) Kv racing technology Dallara-Chevrolet DW12 -1 lap 9
19 Michel Jourdain (MeX) rahal letterman lanigan racing Dallara-honda DW12 -1 lap 22
20 Sebastien Bourdais (F) Dragon racing Dallara-Chevrolet DW12 -1 lap 25
21 ed Carpenter (USA) ed Carpenter racing Dallara-Chevrolet DW12 -1 lap 28
22 Katherine legge (GB) Dragon racing Dallara-Chevrolet DW12 -1 lap 30
23 Ana Beatriz (Br) Andretti Autosport Dallara-Chevrolet DW12 -10 laps 13
24 Marco Andretti (USA) Andretti Autosport Dallara-Chevrolet DW12 187 laps-accident 4
25 Josef newgarden (USA) Sarah Fisher hartman racing Dallara-honda DW12 161 laps-lost power 7
26 Sebastian Saavedra (Co) team AFS/Andretti Autosport Dallara-Chevrolet DW12 143 laps-electrical 24
27 ryan hunter-reay (USA) Andretti Autosport Dallara-Chevrolet DW12 123 laps-suspension 3
28 Will power (AUS) team penske Dallara-Chevrolet DW12 79 laps-accident 5
29 Mike Conway (GB) AJ Foyt racing Dallara-honda DW12 78 laps-accident 29
30 Bryan Clauson (USA) Sarah Fisher hartman racing Dallara-honda DW12 46 laps-handling 31
31 Wade Cunningham (nZ) AJ Foyt racing Dallara-honda DW12 42 laps-electrical 26
32 Simona de Silvestro (Ch) hvM racing Dallara-lotus DW12 10 laps-too slow 32
33 Jean Alesi (F) Fan Force United Dallara-lotus DW12 9 laps-too slow 33
report
INDIANAPOLIS 500
ChAMpIonShIp tABle
poS DrIver ptS
1 power 200
2 Castroneves 164
3 hinchcliffe 164
4 Dixon 153
5 hunter-reay 143
6 Franchitti 136
7 pagenaud 136
8 Briscoe 128
9 Kanaan 113
10 hildebrand 103
winner’s average speed: 167.734mph.
Fastest lap: andretti, 40.8771s,
220.172mph.
Qualifying: decided by a run of four
consecutive laps. positions 1-24 locked
in on pole Day, may 19, with positions
25-33 settled on bump Day, may 20.
NEXT ROUND
Detroit Belle Isle,
June 3
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