GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma 2013

GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma 2013

Racing data
15th of 19 races of the IndyCar Series 2013
Surname:	GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma
Date:	August 25, 2013
Place:	Sonoma , California , United States
Course:	Sonoma Raceway
Length:	315.01 km in 85 laps of 3.706 km
Weather:	sunny
Pole position
Driver:	Dario Franchitti	Target Chip Ganassi Racing
Time:	1: 17.5271 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Will power	Team Penske
Time:	1: 19.9320 min (lap 74)
Podium
First:	Will power	Team Penske
Second:	Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing
Third:	Dario Franchitti	Target Chip Ganassi Racing

The 2013 GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma took place on August 25th at Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma , California , United States and was the 15th race of the 2013 IndyCar Series .

Reports

background

After the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio , Hélio Castroneves led the drivers' standings with 31 points over Scott Dixon and 65 points over Ryan Hunter-Reay .

At the GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma 2013, the drivers were allowed a total of 150 seconds to use the push-to-pass button. The overtaking aid could be activated ten times during the race.

There were three changes in the starting field. Ryan Briscoe returned to Panther Racing after an IndyCar racing weekend break . Briscoe had to pause for about a month before this race due to a fracture in his right wrist in an accident in Toronto . Briscoe replaced Oriol Servià as his representative . At Bryan Herta Autosport , Luca Filippi handed the car over to JR Hildebrand . Hildebrand last worked for Panther Racing at the Indianapolis 500 . He lost his cockpit after being eliminated in an accident early in the race. Hildebrand had received a contract with Bryan Herta Autosport for this race and the season finale in Fontana . In addition, Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing reported a second vehicle that was used together with RW Motorsport . Lucas Luhr received the racing car. Luhr made his debut in the IndyCar Series in Sonoma and has been participating in a formula race again for over ten years. Luhr won the P1 drivers' championship in the American Le Mans Series in 2012 and also led this in 2013 at the time of the race. Luhr was the first driver of the IndyCar Series from Germany . On the other hand, there was no change at Dale Coyne Racing in the vehicle with the number 18. James Davison , who was supposed to complete a one-time outing in 2013 in the previous race, was reported again. At IndyCar test drives in Sonoma two weeks before the race, Ryō Hirakawa came to his first IndyCar test in this vehicle.

With Will Power (twice), Tony Kanaan , Marco Andretti , Dixon, Castroneves, Dario Franchitti and Ryan Briscoe (once each), seven former winners competed in this Grand Prix.

Kanaan made his 211th IndyCar start in a row at this Grand Prix. So he drew level with his team boss and previous sole record holder Jimmy Vasser in the all-time best list .

training

In the first practice session, Hunter-Reay set the fastest time ahead of Castroneves and Franchitti. The two returnees Briscoe and Hildebrand immediately made it back into the top 10 in fifth and ninth respectively. In his first official IndyCar outing, Luhr finished last, 2.2 seconds behind Hunter-Reay. In the second practice session, Dixon set the fastest time on Friday. Behind him are Penske pilots Castroneves and Power. Luhr was again in last place, 2.3 seconds behind. After the training, several pilots expressed their surprise at the relatively quick release of the Blacks , the harder tire compound. The only red flag triggered Briscoe with a ride.

In the third practice session, Franchitti undercut the fastest lap. He set the fastest time ahead of Hunter-Reay and Sébastien Bourdais . Luhr was no longer in last place, but was still 2.2 seconds behind the leader. At the time when Franchitti was setting the fastest lap, all the other drivers were more than a second behind him. At the end of the training, the first 14 drivers were within a second.

Qualifying

Due to a change in wind direction, the route had to be driven differently than in the previous training session.

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. Power drove the fastest lap in the first group, while Franchitti was the fastest driver in the second group.

In the second segment of the qualification, the six fastest drivers qualified for the final section. Power achieved the fastest lap time. Next to him, Dixon, Franchitti, Charlie Kimball , Hunter-Reay and Castroneves made it into the third part of qualifying, the so-called Firestone Fast Six . Franchitti used the same set of softer tire compounds in the second part of qualifying as in the first and was therefore the only driver with a fresh set of tires for the final section.

Franchitti finally set the fastest time and took pole position ahead of Dixon and Power.

Davison was moved ten positions back due to an early engine change.

Final training

In the final practice session before the race, Dixon was the fastest. Hunter-Reay and Andretti followed in the places behind him. Davison did not take part due to a short-term engine change.

run

At the start, Castroneves and Kimball touched in the second corner. Kimball stalled his vehicle and triggered a yellow phase. Josef Newgarden pitted with transmission problems, but drove on. At the restart, Bourdais lost his front wing. A few laps later, EJ Viso and Justin Wilson collided and triggered another yellow phase. In the early stages, Franchitti led the race ahead of his teammate Dixon.

The third caution occurred in the 17th lap after Bourdais Simona de Silvestro had turned around in the seventh corner. With the exception of Hunter-Reay, all the drivers in the leading group pitted, so Hunter-Reay took the lead from Wilson. At the restart, Hunter-Reay kept the lead and Kimball passed him and came back into the lead lap. After Andretti, Simon Pagenaud and Graham Rahal wanted to go through the third corner as a three in midfield and Rahal fell back, Kanaan drove into Hildebrand in the seventh corner and turned him. This triggered the fourth yellow phase. Shortly before, Dixon had driven past Franchitti. Hunter-Reay pitted and handed the lead to Wilson. While Wilson kept the lead at the restart, there were several duels in the field. Power passed Franchitti into third position, James Hinchcliffe was pushed into the run-off zone by Sebastián Saavedra . On the 29th lap, James Jakes retired with an engine failure and triggered the fifth caution period. In addition to him, except for Newgarden and Takuma Satō , who were several laps behind with technical problems, all drivers were in the lead lap.

Wilson, who had older tires, lost the lead at the restart to Dixon and Power and pitted a little later. Around halfway through the race, the second pit stop phase began under green flags. Power stopped one lap ahead of Dixon and stayed just behind Dixon. Shortly thereafter, Power was overtaken by Wilson after a brake. Due to pit stops, Kanaan and then Hinchcliffe took the lead for a few laps before Dixon got it back on lap 55. At this point he was leading the race ahead of Wilson, Power, Franchitti, Andretti, Castroneves, Pagenaud, de Silvestro and Briscoe.

While Hinchcliffe worked his way forward on fresh tires and took fifth position on lap 60, Wilson, de Silvestro and Hunter-Reay pitted for their last stop. A little later, Newgarden, who had gearbox problems, stopped and triggered the sixth caution phase of the race. In this, the rest of the drivers pitted for their last stop. Dixon, whose box was directly behind Powers, touched the rear right tire carrier of Powers crew when driving off , which collided with the Jack-Man as a result of the impact . Both mechanics were uninjured and quickly got up again. Dixon had driven through the Powers Box area, which led to an investigation by race officials.

At the restart, Dixon kept the lead, but was given a drive-through penalty because the race management blamed him for the incident at the pits. The penalty dropped Dixon to 21st place, while Power took the lead ahead of Wilson and Franchitti. Dixon and his race director Mike Hull criticized the penalty after the race, blamed the tire carrier for the collision and accused him of deliberately blocking the way. Penske race director Tim Cindric explained that the mechanic behaved the same way at the two previous stops as he did at the third.

On the 78th lap, an incident in the seventh corner triggered the last caution period of the race. Briscoe touched Kimball, who collided with Satō and Ed Carpenter while driving off . All drivers drove on, Satō gave up a little later at the pits. At the restart, Wilson tried to drive past Power, but was unsuccessful. Dixon, however, worked his way up to 15th place. While Luhr gave up the race with four laps to go, Saavedra hit the lane in the ninth corner after coming into contact with Davison. Saavedra's accident did not trigger a yellow phase. Yellow flags were only shown locally in the area of ​​the accident site.

Power won the race with it. It was his first win since the Indy in São Paulo in April 2012. Wilson finished second ahead of Franchitti, Andretti and Pagenaud. Hunter-Reay, Castroneves, Hinchcliffe, de Silvestro and Bourdais completed the top 10.

Castroneves took advantage of the penalty against Dixon and extended his lead over him. The first three positions in the championship 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
Andretti Autosport	01	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Chevrolet
	25th	Marco Andretti
	27	James Hinchcliffe
Team Penske	03	Helio Castroneves	Chevrolet
	12	Will power
Panther Racing	04th	Ryan Briscoe	Chevrolet
Team Venezuela / Andretti Autosport / HVM	05	EJ Viso	Chevrolet
Dragon Racing	06th	Sebastian Saavedra	Chevrolet
	07th	Sébastien Bourdais
Target Chip Ganassi Racing	09	Scott Dixon	Honda
	10	Dario Franchitti
KV Racing Technology	11	Tony Kanaan	Chevrolet
	78	Simona de Silvestro
AJ Foyt Enterprises	14th	Takuma Satō	Honda
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	15th	Graham Rahal	Honda
	16	James Jakes
Dale Coyne Racing	18th	James Davison	Honda
	19th	Justin Wilson
Ed Carpenter Racing	20th	Ed Carpenter	Chevrolet
Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	55	Tristan Vautier	Honda
Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	67	Josef Newgarden	Honda
Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports	77	Simon Pagenaud	Honda
Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing	83	Charlie Kimball	Honda
RW Motorsport / SFHR	97	Lucas Luhr	Honda
Bryan Herta Autosport w / Curb-Agajanian	98	JR Hildebrand	Honda

Source:

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	team	vehicle	Group 1	Group 2	Top 12	FF6	begin
01	Dario Franchitti	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 17.4874	1: 17.7887	1: 17.5271	01
02	Scott Dixon	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 17.6825	1: 17.5554	1: 17.7196	02
03	Will power	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 18.0033	-	1: 17.5474	1: 17.9735	03
04th	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 17.8424	1: 18.0235	1: 18.1314	04th
05	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 18.7895	-	1: 18.0813	1: 18.1766	05
06th	Charlie Kimball	Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 17.7877	1: 17.8057	1: 18.2009	06th
07th	Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 18.7054	-	1: 18.2138	-	07th
08th	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 18.7325	-	1: 18.3051	-	08th
09	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 18.7253	-	1: 18.3135	-	09
10	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	1: 18.5082	-	1: 18.3787	-	10
11	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 18.1170	1: 18.6230	-	11
12	Sébastien Bourdais	Dragon Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 17.9260	1: 26.7515	-	12
13	Takuma Satō	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara - Honda	1: 18.9164	-	-	-	13
14th	Tristan Vautier	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 18.3141	-	-	14th
15th	EJ Viso	Team Venezuela / Andretti Autosport / HVM	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 18.9344	-	-	-	15th
16	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 18.3318	-	-	16
17th	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 19.0094	-	-	-	17th
18th	JR Hildebrand	Bryan Herta Autosport w / Curb-Agajanian	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 18.7114	-	-	18th
19th	James Jakes	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 19.1563	-	-	-	19th
20th	Sebastian Saavedra	Dragon Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 18.8967	-	-	20th
21st	James Davison	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 19.5285	-	-	-	25th
22nd	Ryan Briscoe	Panther Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 18.9743	-	-	21st
23	Simona de Silvestro	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 19.5298	-	-	-	22nd
24	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 19.2376	-	-	23
25th	Lucas Luhr	RW Motorsport / SFHR	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 19.9805	-	-	24

Remarks

1. ↑ James Davison was moved 10 positions back due to an early engine change.

Swell:

run

Item	driver	team	vehicle	Round	time	begin	Leadership laps
01	Will power	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	2: 20: 46.8226	03	16
02	Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	85	+1.1930	07th	10
03	Dario Franchitti	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	85	+ 3.4038	01	17th
04th	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 4.1266	11	00
05	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	85	+ 4.7042	10	00
06th	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 5.1074	04th	06th
07th	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 8.5383	05	00
08th	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 9.0231	09	04th
09	Simona de Silvestro	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 9.2858	22nd	00
10	Sébastien Bourdais	Dragon Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 11.2082	12	00
11	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Dallara - Honda	85	+ 12.0359	08th	00
12	Tristan Vautier	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	85	+ 15.1056	14th	00
13	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 17.7606	16	05
14th	EJ Viso	Team Venezuela / Andretti Autosport / HVM	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 18.5207	15th	00
15th	Scott Dixon	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	85	+ 20.2165	02	27
16	JR Hildebrand	Bryan Herta Autosport w / Curb-Agajanian	Dallara - Honda	85	+ 20.7611	18th	00
17th	Ryan Briscoe	Panther Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 29.4788	21st	00
18th	James Davison	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	85	+ 43.7768	25th	00
19th	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	84	+ 1 lap	23	00
20th	Charlie Kimball	Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	83	+ 2 rounds	06th	00
21st	Sebastian Saavedra	Dragon Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	81	DNF	20th	00
22nd	Lucas Luhr	RW Motorsports / SFHR	Dallara - Honda	81	DNF	24	00
23	Takuma Satō	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara - Honda	67	DNF	13	00
24	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Dallara - Honda	56	DNF	17th	00
25th	James Jakes	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Dallara - Honda	28	DNF	19th	00

Swell:

Guide sections

section	Round	driver
1	1-17	Dario Franchitti
2	18-23	Ryan Hunter-Reay
3	24-33	Justin Wilson
4th	34-45	Scott Dixon
5	46-50	Tony Kanaan
6th	51-54	James Hinchcliffe
7th	55-69	Scott Dixon
8th	70-85	Will power

Swell:

Yellow phases

No.	Duration	Round	Reason for yellow phase
1	1-2	2	Contact: Hélio Castroneves (# 3) and Charlie Kimball (# 83) in turn 2
2	7-9	3	Contact: EJ Viso (# 5) and Justin Wilson (# 19) in turn 7
3	17-18	2	Contact: Sébastien Bourdais (# 7) and Simona de Silvestro (# 78) in turn 7
4th	22-24	3	Contact: Tony Kanaan (# 11) and JR Hildebrand (# 98) in turn 7
5	30-33	4th	Standstill: James Jakes (# 16) in turn 9
6th	64-68	5	Standstill: Josef Newgarden (# 67) in turn 2
7th	79-80	2	Contact: Ryan Briscoe (# 4), Takuma Satō (# 14), Ed Carpenter (# 20) and Charlie Kimball (# 83) in Turn 7

Swell:

Score after the race

Driver ranking

The allocation of points is explained here .

Item driver Points 01.  Helio Castroneves 479 02.  Scott Dixon 440 03.  Ryan Hunter-Reay 417 04th  Marco Andretti 409 05.  Simon Pagenaud 380 06th  Dario Franchitti 379 07th  Justin Wilson 361 08th.  Will power 356 09.  James Hinchcliffe 350 10.  Charlie Kimball 335 11.  Tony Kanaan 331 12.  EJ Viso 287 13.  Takuma Satō 272

Item driver Points 14th  Sébastien Bourdais 261 15th  Ed Carpenter 261 16.  Graham Rahal 252 17th  Josef Newgarden 251 18th  Simona de Silvestro 248 19th  James Jakes 237 20th  Tristan Vautier 210 21st  Sebastian Saavedra 172 22nd  Oriol Servià 167 23.  Alex Tagliani 163 24.  Mike Conway 149 25th  Ryan Briscoe 100 26th  JR Hildebrand 93

Item driver Points 27.  Ana Beatriz 72 28.  Carlos Muñoz 67 29  AJ Allmendinger 65 30th  Pippa man 29 31.  James Davison 27 32.  Luca Filippi 14th 33.  Conor Daly 11 34.  Townsend Bell 10 35.  Lucas Luhr 8th 36.  Katherine Legge 8th 37.  Buddy Lazier 8th

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