2010 Indy Lights season

The 2010 Firestone Indy Lights season was the 25th season of the American Indy Lights racing series . 13 races were held. The season began on March 28, 2010 in Saint Petersburg and ended on October 2, 2010 in Homestead . Jean Karl Vernay won the championship title in his first season.

Teams and drivers

All teams used Dallara chassis , Infiniti engines and Firestone tires .

team	No.	driver	run
AFS Racing / Andretti Autosport	26th	Charlie Kimball	1-13
	27	Martin Plowman	1-13
Sam Schmidt Motorsports	07th	Jean Karl Vernay	1-13
	11	Pippa man	1-8, 10-13
	49	Philip Major	1-13
	77	James Winslow	1-3,6,7,9
		Wade Cunningham	4, 13
		Alex Ellis	10
Andersen Racing	04th	Carmen Jordá	1-3.7.8
		Arie Luyendyk Jr.	4th
		Not so with Krohn	6th
		Giancarlo Vilarinho	9.10
		Sean Guthrie	13
	05	Joel Miller	3
		Tõnis Kasemets	7th
Bryan Herta Autosport	28	Stefan Wilson	1-9,11,12
		Joel Miller	10
		Dillon Battistini	13
	29	Sebastian Saavedra	1-12
		Daniel Herrington	12
Team PBIR	35	Nic LeDuc	2
		Tõnis Kasemets	3
		Dillon Battistini	11
	37	Niall Quinn	2.3
Team Moore Racing	02	James Hinchcliffe	1-13
	22nd	Adrián Campos Jr.	1-13
Alliance Motorsports	24	Arie Luyendyk Jr.	11-13
PDM Racing	18th	Rodrigo Barbosa	1-13
Walker Racing	40	Jonathan Summerton	1
		Dan Clarke	2-13
Davey Hamilton Racing	32	Brandon Wagner	4,5,11-13
	34	Henry Clarke	13
Genoa Racing O2 Racing Technology	36	David Martínez	9.10
		Daniel Herrington	13
HVM Racing	06th	Junior Strous	1-3
Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor Racing	10	Gustavo Yacamán	1-13
Team E.	17th	Jan Heylen	1
		Jeff Simmons	4th
Michael Crawford Motorsports	08th	Juan Pablo Garcia	9.10

Racing calendar

The 2010 Indy Lights season consisted of 13 races. All races were part of the supporting program of the IndyCar Series . Five races were held on ovals, four on street courses or temporary racetracks and four on permanent racetracks.

No.	date	Racetrack	Art	First	Second	Third
1.	28th March	Saint Petersburg	S.	Jean Karl Vernay	Jan Heylen	Stefan Wilson
2.	11 April	Birmingham	R.	Jean Karl Vernay	Charlie Kimball	Sebastian Saavedra
3.	April 18	Long Beach	S.	James Hinchcliffe	Charlie Kimball	Jean Karl Vernay
4th	28th of May	Indianapolis	O	Wade Cunningham	Charlie Kimball	James Hinchcliffe
5.	June 19th	Newton	O	Sebastian Saavedra	Martin Plowman	Jean Karl Vernay
6th	0July 4th	Watkins Glen	R.	Jean Karl Vernay	James Hinchcliffe	Sebastian Saavedra
7th	July 18th	Toronto	S.	Jean Karl Vernay	Dan Clarke	Gustavo Yacamán
8th.	July 25th	Edmonton	S.	James Hinchcliffe	Jean Karl Vernay	Martin Plowman
9.	08th August	Lexington	R.	Martin Plowman	Dan Clarke	Charlie Kimball
10.	August 22nd	Sonoma	R.	Jean Karl Vernay	Charlie Kimball	James Hinchcliffe
11.	August 28th	Joliet	O	James Hinchcliffe	Pippa man	Philip Major
12.	0September 4th	Sparta	O	Pippa man	James Hinchcliffe	Jean Karl Vernay
13.	0October 2nd	Homestead	O	Brandon Wagner	James Hinchcliffe	Wade Cunningham

• Explanation: O : oval, S : street course, R : race track

Ratings

Point system

The points were awarded according to the following scheme:

position	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27	28	29	30th	31	32	33
Points	50	40	35	32	30th	28	26th	24	22nd	20th	19th	18th	17th	16	15th	14th	13	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10

There was also one extra point for pole position and two extra points for the driver who had led the race most of the laps.

Driver ranking

Item driver STP ALA LBH INDY IOW WGL GOAL EDM MDO SNM CHI KTY HMS Points 01  J. Vernay 1* 1 * 3 13 3 1 1 * 2 8th 1 * 4th 3 15th 494 02  J. Hinchcliffe 15th 5 1 * 3 5 2 * 10 1 * 7th 3 1 2 2 471 03  M. Plowman 6th 4th 5 5 2 4th 7th 3 1 * 16 13 7th 6th 392 04th  C. Kimball 4th 2 2 2 13 11 4th 4th 3 2 14th 6th 13 388 05  P. Mann 13 12 8th 16 8th 14th 8th 11   5 2 * 1 * 5 313 06th  A. Campos 16 13 15th 10 4th 7th 13 8th 6th 7th 8th 4th 4th 307 07th  D. Clarke   7th 13 4th 9 13 2 5 2 13 5 10 17th 304 08th  S. Saavedra 12 3 4th 9 1 * 3 14th 6th 5 15th 11 WD   303 09  P. Major 14th 10 7th 6th 6th 6th 12 10 10 11 3 13 8th 299 10  G. Yacamán 5 9 14th 11 11 8th 3 9 15th 4th 15th 5 16 293 11  S. Wilson 3 6th 17th 7th 7th 12 5 7th 4th   6th 14th   278 12  R. Barbosa 9 16 16 12 10 9 9 12 12 12 10 11 14th 241 13  B. Wagner       8th 12           12 8th 1* 136 14th  J. Winslow 7th 15th 12     5 11   9         130 15th  W. Cunningham       1*                 3 87 16  C. Jordá 11 17th 10       15th 13           84 17th  A. Luyendyk       14th             7th 9 12 82 18th  T. Kasemets     6th       6th             56 19th  J. Strous 10 8th 18th                     56 20th  J. Garcia                 11 6th       47 21st  D. Herrington                       12 7th 44 22nd  D. Battistini                     9   9 44 23  J. Miller     11             9       41 24  J. Heylen 2                         40 25th  D. Martínez                 14th 8th       40 26th  N. Quinn   14th 9                     38 27  G. Vilarinho                 13 10       37 28  J. Summerton 8th                         24 29  A. Krohn           10               20th 30th  S. Guthrie                         10 20th 31  N. LeDuc 11                       19th 32  H. Clarke                         11 19th 33  A. Ellis                   14th       16 34  J. Simmons       15th                   15th Item driver STP ALA LBH INDY IOW WGL GOAL EDM MDO SNM CHI KTY HMS Points

colour meaning gold winner silver 2nd place bronze 3rd place green 4th and 5th place Light Blue 6th to 10th place Dark blue Race ended (outside of the first ten pilots) violet Race not finished red not qualified (DNQ) black disqualified (DSQ) White not at the start (DNS) withdrawn (WD) Race canceled (C) Blank not participated did not appear (DNA) injured or sick (INJ) excluded (EX) Further notation fat Pole position (1 point) Italic Fastest race lap * Most leading laps (2 points) Rookie of the Year Rookie

Web links

• Official website of the Indy Lights