Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio 2012

Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio 2012

Racing data
12th of 15 races of the IndyCar Series 2012
Surname:	Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio
Date:	5th August 2012
Place:	Lexington , Ohio , United States
Course:	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
Length:	308.881 km in 85 laps of 3.634 km
Pole position
Driver:	Will power	Team Penske
Time:	1: 05.6474 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Oriol Servià	Panther / Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
Time:	1: 07.1757 min (lap 66)
Podium
First:	Scott Dixon	Target Chip Ganassi Racing
Second:	Will power	Team Penske
Third:	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports

The 2012 Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio took place on August 5th at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington , Ohio , United States and was the twelfth 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	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	Giorgio Pantano	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: 05.9825	1: 05.8777	1: 05.6474	01
02	Dario Franchitti	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 06.1974	1: 05.8986	1: 05.8950	02
03	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	1: 06.4265	-	1: 05.9030	1: 05.9038	03
04th	Alex Tagliani	Bryan Herta Autosport w / Curb-Agajanian	Dallara - Honda	1: 06.2041	-	1: 05.8446	1: 06.0047	14th
05	Scott Dixon	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 06.2625	-	1: 05.8055	1: 06.0967	04th
06th	Ryan Briscoe	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 06.2512	1: 05.9232	1: 06.2005	05
07th	Sébastien Bourdais	Dragon Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 05.9031	1: 05.9405	-	06th
08th	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 06.3507	-	1: 06.0660	-	07th
09	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 06.2762	1: 06.1142	-	08th
10	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 06.3669	1: 06.1721	-	09
11	Oriol Servià	Panther / Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 06.6185	-	1: 06.2053	-	10
12	Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 06.1029	-	1: 06.6613	-	11
13	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 06.7041	-	-	-	23
14th	JR Hildebrand	Panther Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 06.3768	-	-	12
15th	Rubens Barrichello	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 06.7101	-	-	-	13
16	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 06.4349	-	-	15th
17th	Mike Conway	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara - Honda	1: 06.7807	-	-	-	16
18th	Takuma Satō	Rahal Letterman Lanigan	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 06.4404	-	-	17th
19th	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing Technology w / SH	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 06.8433	-	-	-	18th
20th	EJ Viso	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 06.4511	-	-	19th
21st	James Jakes	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 07.1234	-	-	-	20th
22nd	Graham Rahal	Service Central Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 06.6250	-	-	21st
23	Simona de Silvestro	Lotus-HVM Racing	Dallara - lotus	1: 08.0737	-	-	-	22nd
24	Giorgio Pantano	Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 07.0348	-	-	24
25th	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 08.5116	-	-	25th

Remarks

1. ↑ Alex Tagliani was moved 10 positions back due to an early engine change.
2. ↑ Hélio Castroneves was moved 10 positions back due to an early engine change.

Swell:

run

Item	driver	team	vehicle	Round	time	begin	Leadership laps
01	Scott Dixon	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	85	1: 39: 48.5083	04th	26th
02	Will power	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 3.4619	01	57
03	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	85	+ 4.5402	03	00
04th	Sébastien Bourdais	Dragon Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 5.5822	06th	00
05	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 7.5663	15th	02
06th	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing Technology w / SH	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 12.3280	18th	00
07th	Ryan Briscoe	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 27.9601	05	00
08th	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 28.1691	08th	00
09	JR Hildebrand	Panther Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 29.2325	12	00
10	Alex Tagliani	Bryan Herta Autosport w / Curb-Agajanian	Dallara - Honda	85	+ 31.1722	14th	00
11	Graham Rahal	Service Central Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	85	+ 31.4387	21st	00
12	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Dallara - Honda	85	+ 32.0754	09	00
13	Takuma Satō	Rahal Letterman Lanigan	Dallara - Honda	85	+ 32.4073	17th	00
14th	Giorgio Pantano	Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	85	+ 33.9166	24	00
15th	Rubens Barrichello	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 35.2863	13	00
16	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 35.9205	23	00
17th	Dario Franchitti	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	85	+ 36.9834	02	00
18th	Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	85	+ 42.0974	11	00
19th	James Jakes	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	85	+ 46.4304	20th	00
20th	EJ Viso	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	85	+ 46.8068	19th	00
21st	Mike Conway	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara - Honda	85	+ 46.9535	16	00
22nd	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	84	+ 1 lap	25th	00
23	Simona de Silvestro	Lotus-HVM Racing	Dallara - lotus	83	+ 2 rounds	22nd	00
24	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	79	DNF	07th	00
25th	Oriol Servià	Panther / Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	78	+ 7 rounds	10	00

Swell:

Guide sections

section	Round	driver
1	1-57	Will power
2	58-59	James Hinchcliffe
3	60-85	Scott Dixon

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.  Will power 379 02.  Ryan Hunter-Reay 374 03.  Helio Castroneves 353 04th  Scott Dixon 351 05.  James Hinchcliffe 316 06th  Simon Pagenaud 311 07th  Tony Kanaan 307 08th.  Dario Franchitti 271 09.  Ryan Briscoe 267 10.  Graham Rahal 256 11.  Oriol Servià 237 12.  Justin Wilson 234

Item driver Points 13.  Takuma Satō 233 14th  JR Hildebrand 233 15th  Marco Andretti 227 16.  Charlie Kimball 216 17th  Rubens Barrichello 215 18th  Alex Tagliani 214 19th  Mike Conway 203 20th  EJ Viso 198 21st  Ed Carpenter 187 22nd  James Jakes 184 23.  Josef Newgarden 174 24.  Sébastien Bourdais 149

Item driver Points 25th  Simona de Silvestro 147 26th  Katherine Legge 103 27.  Ana Beatriz 28 28.  Townsend Bell 26th 29  Giorgio Pantano 16 30th  Michel Jourdain Jr. 16 31.  Sebastian Saavedra 14th 32.  Bryan Clauson 13 33.  Wade Cunningham 13 34.  Jean Alesi 13

Manufacturer rating

Item	Manufacturer	Points
1.	Chevrolet	96
2.	Honda	84
3.	lotus	48

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry List - Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio. (PDF; 67 kB) indycar.com, July 31, 2012, accessed on August 14, 2012 (English). 
2. ↑ "IZOD IndyCar Series - Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course - QUALIFYING RESULTS". (PDF; 75 kB) indycar.com, August 4, 2012, accessed on August 14, 2012 (English). 
3. ^ "Honda Indy 200 - Official Starting Line Up". (PDF; 130 kB) indycar.com, August 5, 2012, accessed on August 14, 2012 (English). 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} “OFFICIAL BOX SCORE - Honda Indy 200”. (PDF; 45 kB) indycar.com, August 5, 2012, accessed on August 14, 2012 .