GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma 2012

GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma 2012

Racing data
13th of 15 races of the IndyCar Series 2012
Surname:	GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma
Date:	5th August 2012
Place:	Sonoma , California , United States
Course:	Sonoma Raceway
Length:	315.01 km in 85 laps of 3.706 km
Pole position
Driver:	Will power	Team Penske
Time:	1: 17.2709 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport
Time:	1: 19.1848 min (lap 82)
Podium
First:	Ryan Briscoe	Team Penske
Second:	Will power	Team Penske
Third:	Dario Franchitti	Target Chip Ganassi Racing

The 2012 GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma took place on August 26th at Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma , California , United States and was the 13th race of the 2012 IndyCar Series season .

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	06th	Katherine Legge	Chevrolet
	07th	Sébastien Bourdais
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
Andretti Autosport	17th	Sebastian Saavedra	Chevrolet
	26th	Marco Andretti
	27	James Hinchcliffe
	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay
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
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	Will power	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 17.7803	1: 17.5831	1: 17.2709	01
02	Ryan Briscoe	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 17.5515	-	1: 17.5378	1: 17.4347	02
03	Sébastien Bourdais	Dragon Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 18.3752	-	1: 17.8703	1: 17.7497	03
04th	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 18.3443	-	1: 18.0800	1: 18.1090	04th
05	Scott Dixon	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 18.7821	1: 18.0320	1: 18.2126	05
06th	Dario Franchitti	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 18.0587	-	1: 18.3186	1: 18.3462	06th
07th	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 18.4089	1: 18.3355	-	07th
08th	Alex Tagliani	Bryan Herta Autosport w / Curb-Agajanian	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 18.5521	1: 18.4168	-	08th
09	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 18.5288	1: 18.4334	-	09
10	Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 18.7370	-	1: 18.6258	-	20th
11	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 18.8669	-	1: 18.7885	-	10
12	Rubens Barrichello	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 18.8177	1: 18.9788	-	11
13	Sebastian Saavedra	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 18.8918	-	-	-	23
14th	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 18.8925	-	-	12
15th	Graham Rahal	Service Central Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 18.8981	-	-	-	13
16	Mike Conway	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 18.9048	-	-	14th
17th	JR Hildebrand	Panther Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 19.0931	-	-	-	15th
18th	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing Technology w / SH	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 18.9475	-	-	16
19th	EJ Viso	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 19.3953	-	-	-	17th
20th	Oriol Servià	Panther / Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 18.9672	-	-	18th
21st	Katherine Legge	Dragon Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 19.6414	-	-	-	19th
22nd	Charlie Kimball	Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 19.0262	-	-	21st
23	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 19.7468	-	-	-	22nd
24	Takuma Satō	Rahal Letterman Lanigan	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 19.2821	-	-	26th
25th	Simona de Silvestro	Lotus-HVM Racing	Dallara - lotus	1: 20.2295	-	-	-	27
26th	James Jakes	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 19.5152	-	-	24
27	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 19.6837	-	-	25th

Remarks

1. ↑ Justin Wilson was moved 10 positions back due to an early engine change.
2. ↑ Sebastian Saavedra was moved 10 positions back due to an early engine change.
3. ↑ Takuma Satō was moved 10 positions back because the engine limit was exceeded (the sixth of five allowed).
4. ↑ Simona de Silvestro was moved 10 positions back because the engine limit was exceeded (the seventh of five allowed).

Swell:

run

Item	driver	team	vehicle	Round	time	begin	Leadership laps
01	Ryan Briscoe	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	2: 07: 02.8248	02	27
02	Will power	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 0.4408	01	57
03	Dario Franchitti	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	85	+ 1.0497	06th	00
04th	Rubens Barrichello	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 8.8529	11	00
05	Graham Rahal	Service Central Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	85	+ 9.4667	13	00
06th	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 11.2575	04th	00
07th	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	85	+ 12.3087	09	00
08th	JR Hildebrand	Panther Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 22.8121	15th	00
09	Alex Tagliani	Bryan Herta Autosport w / Curb-Agajanian	Dallara - Honda	85	+ 39.6868	08th	00
10	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing Technology w / SH	Dallara - Chevrolet	84	+ 1 lap	16	00
11	Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	84	+ 1 lap	20th	00
12	James Jakes	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	84	+ 1 lap	24	00
13	Scott Dixon	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	84	+ 1 lap	05	00
14th	Mike Conway	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara - Honda	84	+ 1 lap	14th	00
15th	Sebastian Saavedra	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	84	+ 1 lap	23	00
16	EJ Viso	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	84	+ 1 lap	17th	00
17th	Simona de Silvestro	Lotus-HVM Racing	Dallara - lotus	84	+ 1 lap	27	00
18th	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	84	+ 1 lap	07th	01
19th	Oriol Servià	Panther / Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	84	+ 1 lap	18th	00
20th	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	84	+ 1 lap	25th	00
21st	Charlie Kimball	Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	82	+ 3 rounds	21st	00
22nd	Sébastien Bourdais	Dragon Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	63	DNF	03	00
23	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Dallara - Honda	62	DNF	22nd	00
24	Katherine Legge	Dragon Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	48	DNF	19th	00
25th	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	46	DNF	12	00
26th	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	35	DNF	10	00
27	Takuma Satō	Rahal Letterman Lanigan	Dallara - Honda	02	DNF	26th	00

Swell:

Guide sections

section	Round	driver
1	1-17	Will power
2	18-19	Ryan Briscoe
3	20th	Ryan Hunter-Reay
4th	21-40	Will power
5	41-43	Ryan Briscoe
6th	44-63	Will power
7th	64-85	Ryan Briscoe

Swell:

Yellow phases

No.	Duration	Round	Reason for yellow phase
1	65-73	9	Contact: Sébastien Bourdais (# 7) and Josef Newgarden (# 67) in turn 8
2	75-76	2	Contact: Ryan Hunter-Reay (# 28) and Alex Tagliani (# 98) in turn 7

Swell:

Score after the race

Driver ranking

The allocation of points is explained here .

Item driver Points 01.  Will power 422 02.  Ryan Hunter-Reay 386 03.  Helio Castroneves 381 04th  Scott Dixon 368 05.  Simon Pagenaud 337 06th  Tony Kanaan 327 07th  James Hinchcliffe 326 08th.  Ryan Briscoe 317 09.  Dario Franchitti 306 10.  Graham Rahal 286 11.  JR Hildebrand 257 12.  Justin Wilson 253

Item driver Points 13.  Oriol Servià 249 14th  Rubens Barrichello 247 15th  Takuma Satō 243 16.  Marco Andretti 237 17th  Alex Tagliani 236 18th  Charlie Kimball 228 19th  Mike Conway 219 20th  EJ Viso 212 21st  James Jakes 202 22nd  Ed Carpenter 199 23.  Josef Newgarden 186 24.  Sébastien Bourdais 161

Item driver Points 25th  Simona de Silvestro 160 26th  Katherine Legge 115 27.  Sebastian Saavedra 29 28.  Ana Beatriz 28 29  Townsend Bell 26th 30th  Giorgio Pantano 16 31.  Michel Jourdain Jr. 16 32.  Bryan Clauson 13 33.  Wade Cunningham 13 34.  Jean Alesi 13

Manufacturer rating

Item	Manufacturer	Points
1.	Chevrolet	105
2.	Honda	90
3.	lotus	52

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Entry List - GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma". indycar.com, August 21, 2012, accessed November 10, 2012 . 
2. ^ "IZOD IndyCar Series - GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma at The Raceway in Sonoma - QUALIFYING RESULTS". (PDF; 95 kB) indycar.com, August 25, 2012, accessed on November 10, 2012 (English). 
3. ^ "GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma - Official Starting Line Up". (PDF; 130 kB) indycar.com, August 26, 2012, accessed on November 10, 2012 (English). 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} "OFFICIAL BOX SCORE - GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma". (PDF; 37 kB) indycar.com, August 26, 2012, accessed on November 10, 2012 .