Edmonton Indy 2012

Edmonton Indy 2012

Racing data
11th of 15 races of the IndyCar Series 2012
Surname:	Edmonton Indy
Date:	July 22, 2012
Place:	Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
Course:	Edmonton City Center Airport
Length:	268.439 km in 75 laps of 3.579 km
Pole position
Driver:	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport
Time:	1: 17.2338 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing
Time:	1: 17.3629 min (lap 68)
Podium
First:	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske
Second:	Takuma Satō	Rahal Letterman Lanigan
Third:	Will power	Team Penske

The 2012 Edmonton Indy took place on July 22nd at Edmonton City Center Airport in Edmonton , Alberta , Canada and was the eleventh race of the 2012 IndyCar Series season .

Reports

background

After the Honda Indy Toronto , Ryan Hunter-Reay led the drivers' standings with 34 points ahead of Will Power and with 46 points ahead of Hélio Castroneves . Among the engine manufacturers, Chevrolet led with 12 points ahead of Honda and with 41 points ahead of Lotus .

Each pilot had 120 seconds to press the push-to-pass button for the race .

Ryan Briscoe competed in an IndyCar Series race for the 100th time at this Indy.

With Sébastien Bourdais , Scott Dixon , Power (twice each) and Justin Wilson (once), all previous winners competed in this Indy.

training

In the first training the overall ranking leader Hunter-Reay was noticed with an unsportsmanlike nature. He pushed James Jakes off at Turn 12 and showed him the middle finger. As a punishment, the race control held on for eight minutes in the pit lane. Simon Pagenaud set the fastest lap ahead of Mike Conway and Wilson. Pagenaud undercut last year's pole time by around two seconds. The second training was interrupted four times. First Wilson spun in Turn 5, then there was an almost collision between Power and Castroneves. Castroneves had braked and spun in front of the first corner, while Power drove out of the pits and was only barely able to evade his teammate. The third interruption was triggered by Charlie Kimball by driving into a wall of tires. Conway's roll-out was responsible for the fourth interruption. Castroneves set the fastest lap and beat Pagenaud's time from the first practice session. Dixon finished second, 0.0027 s behind the leader. Conway took third place again. The first 18 pilots were within half a second.

In the third practice session the track dried up after the morning rain and the times got better towards the end of the session. In the initial phase, Josef Newgarden triggered an interruption with a slip into the grass in the eleventh corner. Dario Franchitti set the fastest lap ahead of Dixon and Power. Again the fastest 18 drivers were within half a second.

Qualifying

The first part of the time training was held in two groups. The six fastest drivers in each group came into the second segment. The remaining starting positions were determined from the result of the first qualifying segment, with the drivers in the first group being assigned the odd positions from 13 and the drivers in the second group the even positions from 14. In the first group Power drove the fastest lap of the entire qualifying, in the second group Hunter-Reay was the fastest driver.

In the second segment of the qualification, the six fastest drivers qualified for the final section. In this section parts of the track were wet, so the pilots used intermediates. Takuma Satō drove Satō the best time. In the last section, the so-called Firestone Fast Six, Hunter-Reay achieved the fastest lap under dry conditions ahead of Franchitti, Briscoe, Satō, Alex Tagliani and Castroneves. Hunter-Reay received the bonus point and the prize money for pole position , but due to an early engine change he started the race from eleventh place. It was Hunter-Reay's first pole position since the 2004 West Allis Champ Car race .

In addition to Hunter-Reay, Power and Oriol Servià were also moved ten positions back due to an early engine change. Dixon and Simona de Silvestro also received a penalty transfer of ten places. Both were already using their sixth engine of the season. However, there was an engine limit of five engines for the season. The Penske team stated that Power's engine change was strategically conditioned, as Power's two title rivals, Dixon and Hunter-Reay, also received a penalty and a new stage could be used. The Hunter-Reay engine change was made as a precautionary measure as his Andretti Autosport teammate James Hinchcliffe had suffered an engine failure the previous race weekend.

Final training

In the final practice session on Sunday morning, Dixon was the fastest driver ahead of Rubens Barrichello and Conway.

run

At the start Franchitti initially kept the lead, Briscoe lost second place to Tagliani, who slowed down to Briscoe. One lap later, Tagliani managed to pass Franchitti at the same point. Briscoe was then overtaken by Satō and Castroneves. Power, who, together with Castroneves and Hunter-Reay, was the only driver to start on the harder tires, improved from 17th to 13th place on the first lap. While the first ten positions initially remained unchanged, there were some changes behind them.

During the first pit stop phase, Tagliani briefly lost his lead, but took it back after his competitors stopped. Castroneves overtook Franchitti and Satō at the pit stop. Power came back onto the track at the pit exit right in front of Hunter-Reay. Hunter-Reay complained to Race Director Beaux Barfield about Power's overtaking maneuver after the race , which had not been sanctioned.

On the 44th lap, Jakes was the first pilot to drop out. Jakes had a broken shock absorber. At this point all drivers were still within the lead lap. Before the second pit stops began, Power went past Briscoe to sixth position behind Tagliani, Castroneves, Satō, Franchitti and Graham Rahal and caught up with the first five drivers.

During the second pit stops, Castroneves pitted on lap 51. Tagliani and Satō followed a lap later. With a good first lap on the new tires, Castroneves managed to get back on track ahead of Tagliani and take the lead. Satō kept third place. Power stopped on lap 54 and improved to fourth position.

Tagliani fell behind Satō, Power and Rahal in the final phase with degrading tires. While Power drove in a fuel-efficient manner, Satō caught up with the leading Castroneves and was right behind him from the 60th lap. At this point, Castroneves had twice as many seconds left for the push-to-pass system as Satō and thus had an advantage in the duel. Satō put pressure on Castroneves, but he did not try to overtake.

In the final phase, Servià (technical problem) and Pagenaud (contact) were still out. There was no yellow phase in the entire race, which meant that some drivers had to save fuel. The last street course race without caution was in 2007 at the Champ Cars in Portland. In the IndyCar Series, a race without a yellow phase took place on the oval in Fort Worth in 2011.

Castroneves eventually won the race ahead of Satō. Castroneves scored his first victory at the Edmonton Indy after the race management revoked him in 2010 with a controversial decision. Satō achieved his best result in the IndyCar Series with a second place. Power came third in front of Rahal, Tagliani and Franchitti. Hunter-Reay finished seventh after an overtaking maneuver in the closing stages against Briscoe. Briscoe, Wilson and Dixon completed the top 10.

Hunter-Reay kept the lead in the drivers' championship. Castroneves took second place from Power, who was now third. The places in the manufacturers' standings remained unchanged.

Registration list

All teams and drivers used the chassis Dallara DW12 with an aero kit from Dallara and tires from Firestone .

team	No.	driver	engine
Team Penske	02	Ryan Briscoe	Chevrolet
	03	Helio Castroneves
	12	Will power
Panther Racing	04th	JR Hildebrand	Chevrolet
KV Racing Technology	05	EJ Viso	Chevrolet
	08th	Rubens Barrichello
Dragon Racing	07th	Sébastien Bourdais	Chevrolet
Target Chip Ganassi Racing	09	Scott Dixon	Honda
	10	Dario Franchitti
KV Racing Technology w / SH	11	Tony Kanaan	Chevrolet
AJ Foyt Enterprises	14th	Mike Conway	Honda
Rahal Letterman Lanigan	15th	Takuma Satō	Honda
Dale Coyne Racing	18th	Justin Wilson	Honda
	19th	James Jakes
Ed Carpenter Racing	20th	Ed Carpenter	Chevrolet
Panther / Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	22nd	Oriol Servià	Chevrolet
Andretti Autosport	26th	Marco Andretti	Chevrolet
	27	James Hinchcliffe
	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay
Service Central Chip Ganassi Racing	38	Graham Rahal	Honda
Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	67	Josef Newgarden	Honda
Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports	77	Simon Pagenaud	Honda
Lotus-HVM Racing	78	Simona de Silvestro	lotus
Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing	83	Charlie Kimball	Honda
Bryan Herta Autosport w / Curb-Agajanian	98	Alex Tagliani	Honda

Source:

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	team	vehicle	Group 1	Group 2	Top 12	FF6	begin
01	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 16.3047	1: 27.5381	1: 17.2338	11
02	Dario Franchitti	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 16.6814	1: 27.3631	1: 17.2446	01
03	Ryan Briscoe	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 16.3663	-	1: 27.3466	1: 17.4238	02
04th	Takuma Satō	Rahal Letterman Lanigan	Dallara - Honda	1: 16.2940	-	1: 26.6013	1: 17.5526	03
05	Alex Tagliani	Bryan Herta Autosport w / Curb-Agajanian	Dallara - Honda	1: 16.2101	-	1: 27.4094	1: 17.6139	04th
06th	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 16.8429	1: 27.1590	1: 17.6401	05
07th	Will power	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 15.9508	-	1: 27.5666	-	17th
08th	Scott Dixon	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 16.3667	-	1: 27.7001	-	18th
09	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	1: 16.5237	-	1: 27.8410	-	06th
10	Rubens Barrichello	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 16.9090	1: 28.2521	-	07th
11	Graham Rahal	Service Central Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 16.8621	1: 28.6737	-	08th
12	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 16.3995	1: 28.7409	-	09
13	Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 16.6190	-	-	-	10
14th	Sébastien Bourdais	Dragon Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 16.9747	-	-	12
15th	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 16.7533	-	-	-	13
16	James Jakes	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 16.9900	-	-	14th
17th	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 16.9881	-	-	-	15th
18th	EJ Viso	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 16.9920	-	-	16
19th	Charlie Kimball	Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 17.0078	-	-	-	19th
20th	Oriol Servià	Panther / Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 17.3906	-	-	24
21st	JR Hildebrand	Panther Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 17.5285	-	-	-	20th
22nd	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing Technology w / SH	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 17.5441	-	-	21st
23	Simona de Silvestro	Lotus-HVM Racing	Dallara - lotus	1: 17.9789	-	-	-	25th
24	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 17.6818	-	-	22nd
25th	Mike Conway	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 18.8781	-	-	23

Remarks

1. ↑ Ryan Hunter-Reay was moved 10 positions back due to an early engine change.
2. ↑ Will Power was moved 10 positions back due to a premature engine change.
3. ↑ Scott Dixon was moved 10 positions back because the engine limit was exceeded (the sixth of five allowed).
4. ↑ Oriol Servià was moved 10 positions back due to a premature engine change.
5. ↑ Simona de Silvestro was moved 10 positions back because the engine limit was exceeded (the sixth of five allowed).

Swell:

run

Item	driver	team	vehicle	Round	time	begin	Leadership laps
01	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	75	1: 38: 50.9294	05	22nd
02	Takuma Satō	Rahal Letterman Lanigan	Dallara - Honda	75	+ 0.8367	03	00
03	Will power	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	75	+ 5.3697	17th	03
04th	Graham Rahal	Service Central Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	75	+ 6.9481	08th	00
05	Alex Tagliani	Bryan Herta Autosport w / Curb-Agajanian	Dallara - Honda	75	+ 15.2358	04th	49
06th	Dario Franchitti	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	75	+ 15.8757	01	00
07th	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	75	+ 21.5357	11	00
08th	Ryan Briscoe	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	75	+ 23.5311	02	01
09	Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	75	+ 26.3280	10	00
10	Scott Dixon	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	75	+ 26.6481	18th	00
11	Mike Conway	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara - Honda	75	+ 27.0458	23	00
12	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	75	+ 31.4527	09	00
13	Rubens Barrichello	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	75	+ 35.1256	07th	00
14th	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	75	+ 39.8669	15th	00
15th	Sébastien Bourdais	Dragon Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	75	+ 40.8154	12	00
16	EJ Viso	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	75	+ 55.1028	16	00
17th	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Dallara - Honda	75	+ 56.0449	13	00
18th	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing Technology w / SH	Dallara - Chevrolet	75	+ 57.0272	21st	00
19th	Charlie Kimball	Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	75	+1: 04.8947	19th	00
20th	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	74	DNF	06th	00
21st	JR Hildebrand	Panther Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	74	+ 1 lap	20th	00
22nd	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	74	+ 1 lap	22nd	00
23	Simona de Silvestro	Lotus-HVM Racing	Dallara - lotus	73	+ 1 lap	25th	00
24	Oriol Servià	Panther / Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	65	DNF	24	00
25th	James Jakes	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	43	DNF	14th	00

Swell:

Guide sections

section	Round	driver
1	1-25	Alex Tagliani
2	26th	Ryan Briscoe
3	27	Will power
4th	28-51	Alex Tagliani
5	52-53	Will power
6th	54-75	Helio Castroneves

Swell:

Yellow phases

There was no yellow phase.

Score after the race

Driver ranking

The allocation of points is explained here .

Item driver Points 01.  Ryan Hunter-Reay 362 02.  Helio Castroneves 339 03.  Will power 336 04th  Scott Dixon 301 05.  James Hinchcliffe 286 06th  Tony Kanaan 279 07th  Simon Pagenaud 276 08th.  Dario Franchitti 258 09.  Ryan Briscoe 241 10.  Graham Rahal 237 11.  Oriol Servià 227

Item driver Points 12.  Justin Wilson 222 13.  Takuma Satō 216 14th  Charlie Kimball 216 15th  JR Hildebrand 211 16.  Marco Andretti 203 17th  Rubens Barrichello 200 18th  Alex Tagliani 194 19th  Mike Conway 191 20th  EJ Viso 186 21st  Ed Carpenter 175 22nd  James Jakes 172

Item driver Points 23.  Josef Newgarden 156 24.  Simona de Silvestro 135 25th  Sébastien Bourdais 117 26th  Katherine Legge 103 27.  Ana Beatriz 28 28.  Townsend Bell 26th 29  Michel Jourdain Jr. 16 30th  Sebastian Saavedra 14th 31.  Bryan Clauson 13 32.  Wade Cunningham 13 33.  Jean Alesi 13

Manufacturer rating

Item	Manufacturer	Points
1.	Chevrolet	90
2.	Honda	75
3.	lotus	44

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dave Lewandowski: “City Center Airport course set up for push to pass”. (No longer available online.) Indycar.com, July 19, 2012, archived from the original on July 22, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Dave Lewandowski: "Notes: Wilson has seen it all at City Center Airport". (No longer available online.) Indycar.com, July 19, 2012, archived from the original on July 23, 2012 . 
3. ^ ^{A b c} Mario Fritzsche: "Turbulent start in Edmonton". Motorsport-Total.com, July 20, 2012, accessed August 8, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Dave Lewandowski: “Pagenaud bests 2011 pole time in initial practice”. (No longer available online.) Indycar.com, July 20, 2012, archived from the original on August 22, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Frederik Hackbarth: "IndyCar - Castroneves: Best time after turning". Dixon's late round only goes to P2. Motorsport-Magazin.com, July 21, 2012, accessed August 8, 2012 . 
6. ↑ Dave Lewandowski: “Castroneves bests 2011 pole time in practice”. (No longer available online.) Indycar.com, July 20, 2012, archived from the original on August 23, 2012 . 
7. ↑ Frederik Hackbarth: "IndyCar - Franchitti in the final training before Dixon". Twice Ganassi at the top. Motorsport-Magazin.com, July 21, 2012, accessed August 8, 2012 . 
8. ↑ Mario Fritzsche: "Ganassi double tour in the third Edmonton training". Motorsport-Total.com, July 21, 2012, accessed August 8, 2012 . 
9. ^ Dave Lewandowski: "Franchitti is the quickest in pre-qualifying practice". (No longer available online.) Indycar.com, July 21, 2012, archived from the original on July 23, 2012 . 
10. ^ Dave Lewandowski: "Hunter-Reay earns pole, but will slide down". (No longer available online.) Indycar.com, July 21, 2012, archived from the original on July 24, 2012 . 
11. ^ "Inside the box score: Edmonton numbers to note". (No longer available online.) Indycar.com, July 23, 2012, archived from the original on July 27, 2012 . 
12. ↑ ^{a b} Dave Lewandowski: “Grid penalties shuffle Edmonton starting lineup”. (No longer available online.) Indycar.com, July 22, 2012, archived from the original on July 27, 2012 . 
13. ↑ Pete Fink: "Penalties for Hinchcliffe, de Silvestro and Tagliani". Motorsport-Total.com, July 6, 2012, accessed August 5, 2012 . 
14. ↑ Mario Fritzsche: "Edmonton: Franchitti inherits the Pole from Hunter-Reay". Motorsport-Total.com, July 22, 2012, accessed August 8, 2012 . 
15. ↑ Dave Lewandowski: “Points leader Hunter-Reay to incur grid penalty”. (No longer available online.) Indycar.com, July 20, 2012, archived from the original on July 23, 2012 . 
16. ↑ Frederik Hackbarth: "IndyCar - Dixon in Edmonton-Warm-Up ahead". Barrichello surprisingly second. Motorsport-Magazin.com, July 22, 2012, accessed August 8, 2012 . 
17. ^ ^{A b} Fabian Schneider: "IndyCar - Helio Castroneves wins in Edmonton". Takuma Sato does not use kamikaze. Motorsport-Magazin.com, July 22, 2012, accessed August 13, 2012 . 
18. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Pete Fink: "Edmonton: Castroneves wrestles Sato". Motorsport-Total.com, July 22, 2012, accessed August 13, 2012 . 
19. ↑ ^{a b} Dave Lewandowski: “Castroneves' redemption: 'This place owed us'”. (No longer available online.) Indycar.com, July 22, 2012, archived from the original on August 24, 2012 . 
20. ↑ Pete Fink: "Saving gasoline at Barrichello and de Silvestro". Motorsport-Total.com, July 24, 2012, accessed August 13, 2012 . 
21. ↑ Pete Fink: "Despite the best IndyCar result: Sato not entirely satisfied". Motorsport-Total.com, July 23, 2012, accessed August 13, 2012 . 
22. ^ "Entry List - Edmonton Indy". (PDF; 64 kB) indycar.com, July 16, 2012, accessed on August 7, 2012 (English). 
23. ^ “IZOD IndyCar Series - Edmonton Indy at Edmonton City Center Airport - QUALIFYING RESULTS”. (PDF; 75 kB) indycar.com, July 21, 2012, accessed on August 8, 2012 (English). 
24. ^ "Edmonton Indy - Official Starting Line Up". (PDF; 130 kB) indycar.com, July 22, 2012, accessed on August 8, 2012 (English). 
25. ↑ ^{a b c} “OFFICIAL BOX SCORE - Edmonton Indy”. (PDF; 43 kB) indycar.com, July 22, 2012, accessed on August 8, 2012 .