Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio 2013

Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio 2013

Racing data
14th of 19 races of the IndyCar Series 2013
Surname:	Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio
Date:	4th August 2013
Place:	Lexington , Ohio , United States
Course:	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
Length:	327.02 km in 90 laps of 3.634 km
Weather:	slightly cloudy
Pole position
Driver:	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport
Time:	1: 05.3519 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports
Time:	1: 06.7403 min (lap 35)
Podium
First:	Charlie Kimball	Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing
Second:	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports
Third:	Dario Franchitti	Target Chip Ganassi Racing

The 2013 Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio took place on August 4th at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington , Ohio , United States and was the 14th race of the 2013 IndyCar Series .

Reports

background

After the Honda Indy Toronto , Hélio Castroneves led the drivers' standings with 29 points on Scott Dixon and 69 points on Ryan Hunter-Reay .

At the 2013 Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio, drivers were allowed a total of 170 seconds to use the push-to-pass button. The overtaking aid could be activated ten times during the race.

Before the race, there were three rule changes that went into effect on this Indy:

• In the event of a restart within the last 15 laps of a race, all drivers lapped will be ordered to the end of the field.
• If a penalty can no longer be served during a race, the race result will be declared provisional and the penalty will be reviewed. This procedure is independent of the technical acceptance of the vehicles.
• If a vehicle suffers tire damage when it is touched, the driver no longer has to use this tire compound, even if it has not been used the required minimum number of two laps.

There was an optional change to the vehicles for this race. The tie rod levers, which are usually made of steel, could now also be made of aluminum. This was hoped to reduce the number of hand injuries.

There were three changes in the starting field. Oriol Servià returned to Panther Racing and was registered for the number 4 car for the third time after the Firestone 550 and the Iowa Corn Indy 250 . He represented Ryan Briscoe , who had been out of action at the Honda Indy Toronto after a hand injury. At Dale Coyne Racing , Mike Conway was replaced by James Davison . Davison was runner-up in the Indy Lights in 2009 and was then without a permanent commitment. Since then he has competed in individual sports car races and has also worked as a driving trainer for other IndyCar and Indy Lights drivers. Davison's debut was planned as a one-off appearance at Dale Coyne Racing in the 2013 season, but was used again in the next race. Davison's step-grandfather Tony Gaze died the week before the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio at the age of 93. As a further debutant, Luca Filippi received the vehicle from Bryan Herta Autosport , which Alex Tagliani had previously driven. Filippi had completed four GP2 races for Scuderia Coloni in 2012 and won one race.

With Dixon (four times), Castroneves (twice) and Dario Franchitti (once), three former winners competed for this Indy.

training

In the first practice session, the Ganassi pilots Dixon and Franchitti, who led the ranking, dominated. Hunter-Reay followed in third place, thirteenth of a second behind. In the second practice Will Power took the lead in front of Dixon and Hunter-Reay. The training was interrupted twice after the departure of James Hinchcliffe and Tony Kanaan . Debutant Filippi came in fifth. Takuma Satō and Justin Wilson occupied positions 22 and 24 with technical problems.

In the third practice session, Josef Newgarden set the fastest time and was ahead of three Andretti Autosport drivers . Marco Andretti , EJ Viso and James Hinchcliffe took positions two to four. The training was interrupted several times. Satō slipped in the second corner. Shortly after resuming training, Charlie Kimball had an accident in the first corner. He lost control of his racing car and hit the tire wall backwards. Kimball left the vehicle on his own. The tire stacks then had to be readjusted. Kimball switched to the replacement car for the rest of the weekend. Shortly before the end of the training session, Power also hit the tire wall on the first corner backwards. At around the same time, Hinchcliffe lost his front wing after a ride in the twelfth turn.

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. Franchitti set the fastest lap in the first group, while Hunter-Reay was the fastest driver in the second group. In the first group, Castroneves, the overall leader, failed to progress and was 15th in the qualifying classification. Davison's fastest lap was canceled due to avoidable contact with Ed Carpenter . In the second group there was a red flag that was triggered by a slip by Filippi in the twelfth corner. Due to the triggering of the interruption, the two fastest times were deleted so that he was last instead of jumping into the second section.

In the second segment of the qualification, the six fastest drivers qualified for the final section. Power achieved the fastest lap time. Alongside him, Andretti, Hunter-Reay, Dixon, Franchitti and Kimball made it into the third part of qualifying, the so-called Firestone Fast Six . Tristan Vautier , who finished eleventh, was thrown out in the closing stages. On the starting grid he was moved back ten starting positions due to an early engine change.

Hunter-Reay finally set the fastest time, taking pole position ahead of Power and Dixon.

Final training

In the final training, Wilson was the fastest driver ahead of Simona de Silvestro and Andretti.

run

Hunter-Reay kept the lead over Power and Dixon at the start. With the exception of Andretti, who started the race from fourth place, the drivers in the leading group used the softer tire compound in the first section. Despite the tougher mix, Andretti was one of the first drivers to enter the pit lane.

On lap 30, the first three of the race pitted. The internal order did not change, but Hunter-Reay, Power and Dixon had fallen behind Kimball, Hinchcliffe and Simon Pagenaud , who were more in the pits and, in contrast to the former, a three-stop strategy instead of a two-stop strategy used. Hunter-Reay, Power and Dixon were the only riders in the leading group who only wanted to stop twice.

In the 42nd round, Kimball pitted for the second time. In doing so, he fell behind Pagenaud, but stayed ahead of the three drivers who had led in the early stages. Kimball and Pagenaud had used the softer tire compound in their second stint and were faster than Hunter-Reay, Power and Dixon on the harder one. When Pagenaud pitted six laps later, he too stayed ahead of the former leading trio and took second place behind Kimball. A lap later, Dixon decided to switch to a three-stop strategy. He fell back into midfield and lost some time.

In the 60th lap, Hunter-Reay and Power pitted for the second and last time. While Power's stop went flawlessly, Hunter-Reay had parked too far away from the fuel system so that his stop was delayed. Kimball pitted five laps later, handing the lead back to Pagenaud. He now switched to the harder tire compound, which he had not used before but had to use in the race. At the same time, Kanaan parked his vehicle in a run-off zone and gave up with technical problems. Since his car was safely parked, there was no yellow phase.

Pagenaud stayed on the track longer than originally planned, as Kimball had difficulty lapping traffic and was stuck behind Viso. Pagenaud's wait seemed to be paying off at first, as he got back on track before Viso and Kimball. While Kimball came briefly off the track, Viso rounded back in the second corner so that the first two drivers were directly behind one another. Kimball slowed past the fourth corner and took the lead. He benefited from the fact that Pagenaud's tires did not yet have the necessary temperature. Kimball pulled away from the rest of the field in the following laps.

As in the previous year, the race ended without a single caution period. Kimball won ahead of Pagenaud and his teammate Franchitti. This meant that only Honda pilots were on the podium. It was Kimball's first IndyCar win. He became the fourth premiere winner of the season after Hinchcliffe, Satō and Pagenaud. Kimball scored more laps in the lead in this race than in his previous career. Power and Hunter-Reay followed in fourth and fifth. For a more successful performance with the two-stop strategy, both drivers would have needed caution phases. The top 10 completed Castroneves, Dixon, Wilson, Andretti and Hinchcliffe. The two debutants, Davison and Filippi, finished 15th and 16th. It was the first time Dixon had failed to finish in the top five in Mid-Ohio.

Kimball achieved his first victory in formula racing since 2006 in Zandvoort in the Formula 3 Euro Series . This was before Kimball got type 1 diabetes . In the meantime, Kimball won the Daytona 24-hour race in 2013, a sports car race with Juan Pablo Montoya , Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas . Kimball became the first IndyCar winner to develop type 1 diabetes.

Castroneves extended his lead over Dixon, his closest pursuer. Hunter-Reay stayed in third position, some way behind.

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	Oriol Servià	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
Bryan Herta Autosport w / Curb-Agajanian	98	Luca Filippi	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: 05.6626	1: 05.7329	1: 05.3519	01
02	Will power	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 05.7012	1: 05.6843	1: 05.5359	02
03	Scott Dixon	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 05.8601	-	1: 05.7429	1: 05.7051	03
04th	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 06.0714	1: 05.7122	1: 05.8566	04th
05	Charlie Kimball	Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 05.8071	-	1: 05.8870	1: 06.4415	05
06th	Dario Franchitti	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 05.7004	-	1: 05.7671	1: 06.5854	06th
07th	Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 05.9546	-	1: 05.9405	-	07th
08th	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 05.6854	1: 05.9412	-	08th
09	Simona de Silvestro	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 05.9454	-	1: 05.9621	-	09
10	James Jakes	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 06.1186	1: 06.1778	-	10
11	Tristan Vautier	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 06.0162	1: 06.3379	-	21st
12	EJ Viso	Team Venezuela / Andretti Autosport / HVM	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 06.1597	-	1: 06.4071	-	11
13	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 06.2198	-	-	-	12
14th	Sébastien Bourdais	Dragon Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 06.1856	-	-	13
15th	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 06.2280	-	-	-	14th
16	Takuma Satō	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 06.1989	-	-	15th
17th	James Davison	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 06.2839	-	-	-	16
18th	Oriol Servià	Panther Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 06.2109	-	-	17th
19th	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 06.5334	-	-	-	18th
20th	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 06.2537	-	-	19th
21st	Sebastian Saavedra	Dragon Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 07.0895	-	-	-	20th
22nd	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 06.4002	-	-	22nd
23	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 07.4107	-	-	-	23
24	Luca Filippi	Bryan Herta Autosport w / Curb-Agajanian	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 06.8757	-	-	24

Remarks

1. ↑ Tristan Vautier was moved 10 positions back due to an early engine change.

Swell:

run

Item	driver	team	vehicle	Round	time	begin	Leadership laps
01	Charlie Kimball	Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	90	1: 43: 29.1371	05	46
02	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	90	+ 5.5334	08th	14th
03	Dario Franchitti	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	90	+ 28.8735	06th	00
04th	Will power	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	90	+ 42.5032	02	00
05	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	90	+ 46.3449	01	30th
06th	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	90	+ 48.3249	14th	00
07th	Scott Dixon	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	90	+ 48.5496	03	00
08th	Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	90	+ 49.0431	07th	00
09	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	90	+ 49.5609	04th	00
10	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	90	+ 49.9283	12	00
11	Simona de Silvestro	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	90	+ 50.4925	09	00
12	Sébastien Bourdais	Dragon Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	90	+ 54.1360	13	00
13	James Jakes	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Dallara - Honda	90	+ 54.6693	10	00
14th	Oriol Servià	Panther Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	90	+1: 04.6395	17th	00
15th	James Davison	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	90	+1: 05.4079	16	00
16	Luca Filippi	Bryan Herta Autosport w / Curb-Agajanian	Dallara - Honda	90	+1: 09.0090	24	00
17th	EJ Viso	Team Venezuela / Andretti Autosport / HVM	Dallara - Chevrolet	89	+ 1 lap	11	00
18th	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Dallara - Honda	89	+ 1 lap	22nd	00
19th	Sebastian Saavedra	Dragon Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	89	+ 1 lap	20th	00
20th	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	89	+ 1 lap	23	00
21st	Tristan Vautier	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	89	+ 1 lap	21st	00
22nd	Takuma Satō	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara - Honda	89	+ 1 lap	15th	00
23	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Dallara - Honda	88	+ 2 rounds	18th	00
24	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	64	DNF	19th	00

Swell:

Guide sections

section	Round	driver
1	1-30	Ryan Hunter-Reay
2	31-41	Charlie Kimball
3	42-47	Simon Pagenaud
4th	48-64	Charlie Kimball
5	65-72	Simon Pagenaud
6th	73-90	Charlie Kimball

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.  Helio Castroneves 453 02.  Scott Dixon 422 03.  Ryan Hunter-Reay 388 04th  Marco Andretti 377 05.  Simon Pagenaud 350 06th  Dario Franchitti 342 07th  James Hinchcliffe 325 08th.  Charlie Kimball 325 09.  Justin Wilson 320 10.  Tony Kanaan 313 11.  Will power 305 12.  EJ Viso 271

Item driver Points 13.  Takuma Satō 265 14th  Ed Carpenter 250 15th  Josef Newgarden 245 16.  Sébastien Bourdais 241 17th  Graham Rahal 233 18th  James Jakes 232 19th  Simona de Silvestro 226 20th  Tristan Vautier 192 21st  Oriol Servià 167 22nd  Alex Tagliani 163 23.  Sebastian Saavedra 163 24.  Mike Conway 149

Item driver Points 25th  Ryan Briscoe 87 26th  JR Hildebrand 79 27.  Ana Beatriz 72 28.  Carlos Muñoz 67 29  AJ Allmendinger 65 30th  Pippa man 29 31.  James Davison 15th 32.  Luca Filippi 14th 33.  Conor Daly 11 34.  Townsend Bell 10 35.  Katherine Legge 8th 36.  Buddy Lazier 8th

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