Firestone 600 2014
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| 8th of 18 races of the IndyCar Series 2014 | ||
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| Surname: | Firestone 600 | |
| Date: | June 7, 2014 | |
| Place: |
 Fort Worth , Texas , United States
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| Course: | Texas Motor Speedway | |
| Length: | 598.676 km in 248 laps of 2.414 km
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| Weather: | sunny | |
| Pole position | ||
| Driver: |
 Will power
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 Team Penske
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| Time: | 0: 47.8584 min | |
| Fastest lap | ||
| Driver: |
 Tony Kanaan
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Target Chip Ganassi Racing
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| Time: | 0: 24.3827 min (lap 138) | |
| Podium | ||
| First: |
Ed Carpenter
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Ed Carpenter Racing
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| Second: |
Will power
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Team Penske
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| Third: |
 Juan Pablo Montoya
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Penske Motorsports
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The 2014 Firestone 600 took place on June 7th at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth , Texas , United States and was the eighth race of the 2014 IndyCar Series .
Reports
background
After the Chevrolet Indy Dual in Detroit , Will Power led the drivers' standings with 19 points on Hélio Castroneves and with 27 points on Ryan Hunter-Reay .
The Firestone 600 took place under floodlights on Saturday evening.
An additional aerodynamics package was made available to the riders for this race, which should generate around 300 pounds more downforce and reduce tire wear. This configuration was tested in spring 2014.
The same tire compounds were chosen as in the previous year on this track and in Fontana .
There was a planned driver change at Ed Carpenter Racing . Ed Carpenter , who competed in all oval races, replaced Mike Conway , who only drove the street course races.
With Castroneves (three times), Tony Kanaan , Scott Dixon , Ryan Briscoe , Power and Justin Wilson (once each), six former winners competed in this race.
training
There was only one practice session before qualifying. In this there was a triple guidance for Ganassi . Canaan was first ahead of Dixon and Briscoe. The training was interrupted three times for route inspections, there were no accidents.
Qualifying
The qualifying was held in the individual time trial. The starting order for the individual time trial was drawn. Each pilot drove two fast laps in a row. The average speed achieved in the process decided the order of the starting grid.
Power was the fastest and took pole position ahead of Josef Newgarden and Kanaan. Newgarden was the only driver whose second lap was faster than the first. Due to warmer conditions, many drivers suffered from understeering on their second lap. With his 34th pole position, Power drew level with Dario Franchitti in sixth place in the all-time leaderboard .
Final training
The final training took place under floodlights on Friday evening after qualifying. As in training, three Ganassi were in the first three positions. This time Dixon led before Canaan and Briscoe. The 30-minute session was interrupted once to inspect the track. So there was no accident in any of the Friday meetings. Sébastien Bourdais ended practice eight minutes before the end due to a problem. Castroneves has been banned for the last four minutes for missing a requested weight test.
run
Power kept the lead at the start. On the fourth lap, Marco Andretti retired with an engine failure and thus caused a yellow phase.
Then there were over 100 laps without incident or interruption. The drivers chose different strategies. Power briefly gave up the lead twice to Juan Pablo Montoya due to pit stops before Carpenter, who drove shorter stints, took the lead on lap 103. On lap 119, a collision between Wilson and Bourdais in the fourth corner triggered a caution period. Wilson wanted to drive past Bourdais on the inside lane, but the latter pushed his opponent onto the apron, so that both finally collided. Bourdais was after the race by a fine of 10,000 US dollars allocated and received a suspended sentence until the end of the season. During the yellow phase, the drivers' strategies were aligned again.
During the pit stops in the caution phase, Power took the lead again and kept this lead during the restart. Three laps after the race was reopened, Hunter-Reay gave up with a technical defect. Power led more laps before his pit stop. Due to pit stops, Carpenter and Montoya took the lead for a short time. Three laps after the pit stops, Carpenter passed Power, who had difficulty lapping, in the lead and kept it after the pit stop until the end of the race.
Power was too fast in the pit lane at his originally planned last pit stop and received a drive-through penalty. As a result, he dropped from second place at the end of the leading lap to sixth place. Carpenter, meanwhile, built up his lead at the front and was finally around 16 seconds ahead of Montoya on lap 241. Takuma Satō suffered an engine failure on this lap, his vehicle caught fire and stopped on the track, so there was another yellow phase. From the leading lap, Power and Simon Pagenaud pitted to change tires. There were finally three more laps under green. On these laps Power overtook all drivers except Carpenter and moved up to second place. At the restart, Briscoe, Charlie Kimball , Newgarden and Sebastián Saavedra did not fall back as requested and therefore received a drive-through penalty that was converted into a 30-second time penalty. In the last 15 laps of a race, lapped drivers must let all drivers from the leading lap by before a restart.
Carpenter eventually won by half a second over Power and Montoya, who scored his first podium after his IndyCar comeback. Pagenaud was fourth ahead of Dixon and Canaan. The top ten were completed by Mikhail Aleshin , Castroneves, Briscoe and Kimball, each one second behind. This means that all vehicles from Ganassi, Penske , Schmidt Peterson and Carpenter were in the top 10 . After this race, Power was the only driver to have completed all the race laps of the season. He was also the only driver to have finished every previous race in the top 10.
In the championship, the top three positions remained unchanged, with Power extending his lead.
Registration list
All teams and drivers used the chassis Dallara DW12 with an aero kit from Dallara and tires from Firestone .
Classifications
Qualifying
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run
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Guide sections
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Yellow phases
| No. | Duration | Round | Reason for yellow phase |
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| 1 | 5-10 | 6th | Standstill: Marco Andretti (# 25) in turn 4 |
| 2 | 121-133 | 13 | Contact: Sébastien Bourdais (# 11) and Justin Wilson (# 19) in turn 4 |
| 3 | 242-245 | 4th | Standstill: Takuma Satō (# 14) in turn 1 |
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Score after the race
Driver ranking
The allocation of points is explained here .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Pete Fink: "Preview: IndyCars in Dangerous Texas". Motorsport-Total.com, June 5, 2014, accessed August 16, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c Pete Fink: "Texas prelude: Ganassi with triple leadership". Motorsport-Total.com, June 6, 2014, accessed August 16, 2014 .
- ^ "Firestone 600 - Results of Session - Practice 1". imscdn.com, June 6, 2014, accessed August 16, 2014 .
- ↑ Dave Lewandowski: “Ganassi trio tops speed chart in pre-quals session”. indycar.com, June 6, 2014, accessed August 16, 2014 .
- ^ Mark Glendenning: "Texas IndyCar: Tony Kanaan leads all-Ganassi practice top three". autosport.com, June 6, 2014, accessed August 16, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Pete Fink: "Texas Pole for Power - Montoya Fourth". Motorsport-Total.com, June 6, 2014, accessed August 16, 2014 .
- ^ Mark Glendenning: "Texas IndyCar: Will Power on Pole After Challenging Session". autosport.com, June 6, 2014, accessed August 16, 2014 .
- ^ Dave Lewandowski: "Power makes it two in a row on pole at Texas". indycar.com, June 6, 2014, accessed August 16, 2014 .
- ↑ "Firestone 600 - Results of Session - Practice Final". imscdn.com, June 6, 2014, accessed August 16, 2014 .
- ↑ Pete Fink: "Texas Warmup: Ganassi versus Penske?" Motorsport-Total.com, June 7, 2014, accessed on August 16, 2014 .
- ↑ Mark Glendenning: "Texas IndyCar: Scott Dixon leads night practice". autosport.com, June 7, 2014, accessed August 16, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g Pete Fink: "Carpenter beats the establishment - podium for Montoya". Motorsport-Total.com, June 8, 2014, accessed August 17, 2014 .
- ↑ Pete Fink: "Punishment: Bourdais on Probation". Motorsport-Total.com, June 12, 2014, accessed August 17, 2014 .
- ^ A b c Mark Glendenning: "Texas IndyCar: Carpenter wins, Power denies Montoya second". autosport.com, June 8, 2014, accessed August 17, 2014 .
- ^ Dave Lewandowski: "Carpenter holds off chargers for Texas win". indycar.com, June 7, 2014, accessed August 17, 2014 .
- ^ "Inside the box score: Texas numbers to note". indycar.com, June 10, 2014, accessed August 17, 2014 .
- ↑ "Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway - QUALIFYING RESULTS". (PDF) indycar.com, June 6, 2014, accessed June 6, 2014 .
- ↑ "Firestone 600 - Official Starting Line Up". (PDF) indycar.com, June 6, 2014, accessed August 16, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c “OFFICIAL BOX SCORE - Firestone 600”. (PDF) indycar.com, June 7, 2014, accessed on August 16, 2014 .
- ↑ "Firestone 600 - Unofficial Lap Report". indycar.com, June 7, 2014, accessed August 16, 2014 .