Iowa Corn Indy 250 2012
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| 9th of 15 races of the IndyCar Series 2012 | ||
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| Surname: | Iowa Corn Indy 250 | |
| Date: | June 23, 2012 | |
| Place: |
 Newton , Iowa , United States
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| Course: | Iowa Speedway | |
| Length: | 352.044 km in 250 laps of 1.408 km
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| Pole position | ||
| Driver: |
 Dario Franchitti
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 Target Chip Ganassi Racing
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| Time: | 9: 16.9203 min | |
| Fastest lap | ||
| Driver: |
Ed Carpenter
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Ed Carpenter Racing
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| Time: | 0: 17.7343 min (lap 213) | |
| Podium | ||
| First: |
Ryan Hunter-Reay
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Andretti Autosport
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| Second: |
Marco Andretti
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Andretti Autosport
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| Third: |
 Tony Kanaan
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KV Racing Technology w / SH
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The 2012 Iowa Corn Indy 250 took place on June 23rd at Iowa Speedway in Newton , Iowa , United States and was the ninth race of the 2012 IndyCar Series .
Reports
background
After the Milwaukee IndyFest , Will Power led the drivers' standings by 31 points over James Hinchcliffe and 35 points over Scott Dixon . Among the engine manufacturers, Chevrolet led with 6 points ahead of Honda and with 31 points ahead of Lotus .
The rear wing of the Dallara DW12 was adapted for this race. He was allowed to have a maximum angle of 37 ° and not use a Gurney Flap . In addition, an additional camera was installed for the starts and restarts, which is synchronized with the timing and video system. The IndyCar Series wanted to prevent wrong decisions about offenses in this phase.
The qualifying mode for this race has been changed. Instead of the customary single time trial on ovals, the starting grid was determined by so-called heat races . The field was divided into three groups based on the result of the second training session. The even starting positions from tenth place onwards were assigned to the first group, the odd starting positions from ninth place onwards to the second group and places one to eighth on the third group. The division into the groups was based on the same criteria. Each heat race lasted 30 laps.
With Dario Franchitti (twice), Tony Kanaan and Marco Andretti (once each), three former winners competed in this race.
training
In the first practice session, Andretti achieved the fastest lap time ahead of Josef Newgarden and Alex Tagliani . The second training determined the division into the three qualification groups. Andretti was again the fastest pilot. Franchitti was second ahead of Hélio Castroneves . For the third group of the first eight, three drivers each from the Penske and Andretti Autosport teams and two drivers from Chip Ganassi Racing qualified .
Qualifying
1st heat race
In the first heat race, the straight starting positions were awarded from position ten. Graham Rahal took a start-to-finish victory ahead of Newgarden and JR Hildebrand . With Rahal and EJ Viso , two pilots of this heat race were penalized by ten positions due to an early engine change.
2nd heat race
In the second heat race, the odd starting positions were awarded from position nine. First, Rubens Barrichello led the race. In the sixth lap he lost the lead to Tagliani. This was ahead until the 20th lap. In this, Canaan took the lead. Kanaan eventually won the race ahead of Tagliani and Barrichello. In this group, Kanaan and Simon Pagenaud were penalized by ten positions for an early engine change.
3rd heat race
In the third heat race, the pole position and the first eight starting positions were extended. Andretti initially led the race. In the eighth lap, Franchitti dared to attack the outside lane and took the lead. Castroneves also managed to drive past Andretti shortly afterwards.
Franchitti finally won ahead of Castroneves and Andretti and thus achieved pole position. Hinchcliffe and Ryan Briscoe fought for fourth place on the last lap, with Hinchcliffe staying in front. The remaining places went to Power, Ryan Hunter-Reay and Dixon.
run
The Iowa Corn Indy 250 was a floodlit race. The start was originally planned for 9 p.m. local time. However, due to rain showers, the start was delayed by about an hour. Pole-setter Dario Franchitti fell out with an engine failure in the introductory laps. Tagliani also stayed on the track, so the race started with a caution period. Tagliani took up the race behind, however.
Castroneves initially led the race ahead of Hinchcliffe, Hunter-Reay, Briscoe, Andretti and Power. Hildebrand had contact with Hunter-Reay at the start, which meant a front wing change for Hildebrand. As a result, he lost three laps on the leading driver.
Hinchcliffe took the lead from Castroneves in the 52nd round, who then defended himself against Hunter-Reay. Justin Wilson had meanwhile taken fourth place. In the 68th lap there was another yellow phase when Viso and Power collided. Both were eliminated. During the caution period, Castroneves took the lead again, which he held for many laps.
Around the 100th round there was another yellow phase and two more failures. Hildebrand had an accident on Turn 1 and Oriol Servià finally gave up with electronic problems. In this caution phase, Dixon and Briscoe completed another pit stop, during which they did not lose many places, as only 13 drivers were still in the lead at this point. Even Mike Conway was little to technical problems.
Then there was a longer green phase in which Castroneves, Hunter-Reay, Andretti, Hinchcliffe and Kanaan were in the top 5. In sixth place was Pagenaud, who had started from last place. Due to their strategy, Dixon and Briscoe fell by the wayside longer. When Dixon pitted, Briscoe was the only pilot on the lead lap. However, shortly afterwards he collided with Newgarden, which ended the race for both of them.
At the restart, Dixon, who had made his last stop shortly before the caution period and thus benefited from the stops made by the competitors, was in the lead. A few laps after the restart, Hinchcliffe turned into the wall and triggered another yellow phase. While Dixon was put under pressure by Hunter-Reay and Andretti after the restart, while in the lead, Tagliani retired with technical problems. 13 laps before the end of the race, Hunter-Reay took over the lead from Dixon and Andretti also passed him. A few laps later, Dixon lost another position to Canaan.
Katherine Legge finally triggered another caution phase with a spin three laps before the end of the race. The race ended under this.
Hunter-Reay won ahead of Andretti and the two racing drivers achieved a double victory for Andretti Autosport. Kanaan was third ahead of Dixon. Pagenaud finished the race in fifth place. The top 10 completed Castroneves, Barrichello, Ed Carpenter , Rahal and Wilson.
Hunter-Reay caught up to three points on Power in the overall standings and took second place. Dixon kept third place. Within a week Hunter-Reay had won 102 points from two races with two wins, Power scored 30 points in these two races. The positions of the manufacturers remained unchanged.
Registration list
All teams and drivers used the chassis Dallara DW12 with an aero kit from Dallara and tires from Firestone .
Source:
classification
Qualifying
1st heat race
| Item | driver | team | vehicle | Round | time | begin | Leadership laps |
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| 1 |
Graham Rahal
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Service Central Chip Ganassi Racing
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Dallara - Honda | 30th | 9: 00.6441 | 1 | 30th |
| 2 |
Josef Newgarden
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Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing
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Dallara - Honda | 30th | + 6.2134 | 2 | 0 |
| 3 |
JR Hildebrand
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Panther Racing
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Dallara - Chevrolet | 30th | + 6.5594 | 4th | 0 |
| 4th |
 EJ Viso
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KV Racing Technology
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Dallara - Chevrolet | 30th | + 7.4531 | 3 | 0 |
| 5 |
 Oriol Servià
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Panther / Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
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Dallara - Chevrolet | 30th | + 8.3586 | 5 | 0 |
| 6th |
Mike Conway
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AJ Foyt Enterprises
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Dallara - Honda | 30th | + 10.8144 | 6th | 0 |
| 7th |
Ed Carpenter
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Ed Carpenter Racing
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Dallara - Chevrolet | 30th | + 13.4036 | 7th | 0 |
| 8th |
 Takuma Satō
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Rahal Letterman Lanigan
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Dallara - Honda | 30th | + 18.5671 | 8th | 0 |
Swell:
Guide sections
| section | Round | driver |
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| 1 | 1-30 |
Graham Rahal
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Swell:
2nd heat race
| Item | driver | team | vehicle | Round | time | begin | Leadership laps |
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| 1 |
Tony Kanaan
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KV Racing Technology w / SH
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Dallara - Chevrolet | 30th | 8: 59.4932 | 4th | 11 |
| 2 |
 Alex Tagliani
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Bryan Herta Autosport w / Curb-Agajanian
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Dallara - Honda | 30th | + 3.1255 | 2 | 14th |
| 3 |
Rubens Barrichello
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KV Racing Technology
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Dallara - Chevrolet | 30th | + 6.0818 | 1 | 5 |
| 4th |
Justin Wilson
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Dale Coyne Racing
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Dallara - Honda | 30th | + 7.9310 | 3 | 0 |
| 5 |
Charlie Kimball
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Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing
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Dallara - Honda | 30th | + 10.0818 | 6th | 0 |
| 6th |
Katherine Legge
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Dragon Racing
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Dallara - Chevrolet | 30th | + 13.7490 | 8th | 0 |
| 7th |
James Jakes
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Dale Coyne Racing
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Dallara - Honda | 30th | + 14.0032 | 5 | 0 |
| 8th |
 Simona de Silvestro
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Lotus-HVM Racing
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Dallara - lotus | 29 | + 1 lap | 9 | 0 |
| 9 |
 Simon Pagenaud
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Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports
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Dallara - Honda | 29 | + 1 lap | 7th | 0 |
Swell:
Guide sections
| section | Round | driver |
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| 1 | 1-5 |
Rubens Barrichello
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| 2 | 6-19 |
Alex Tagliani
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| 3 | 20-30 |
Tony Kanaan
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Swell:
3rd heat race
| Item | driver | team | vehicle | Round | time | begin | Leadership laps |
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| 1 |
Dario Franchitti
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Target Chip Ganassi Racing
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Dallara - Honda | 30th | 9: 16.9203 | 2 | 23 |
| 2 |
Helio Castroneves
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Team Penske
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Dallara - Chevrolet | 30th | +1.4671 | 3 | 0 |
| 3 |
Marco Andretti
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Andretti Autosport
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Dallara - Chevrolet | 30th | + 5.1884 | 1 | 7th |
| 4th |
James Hinchcliffe
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Andretti Autosport
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Dallara - Chevrolet | 30th | + 5.9813 | 6th | 0 |
| 5 |
 Ryan Briscoe
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Team Penske
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Dallara - Chevrolet | 30th | + 6.5813 | 5 | 0 |
| 6th |
Will power
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Team Penske
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Dallara - Chevrolet | 30th | + 7.3642 | 4th | 0 |
| 7th |
Ryan Hunter-Reay
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Andretti Autosport
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Dallara - Chevrolet | 30th | + 7.8433 | 7th | 0 |
| 8th |
 Scott Dixon
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Target Chip Ganassi Racing
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Dallara - Honda | 30th | + 9.2963 | 8th | 0 |
Swell:
Guide sections
| section | Round | driver |
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| 1 | 1-7 |
Marco Andretti
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| 2 | 8-30 |
Dario Franchitti
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Swell:
Result
- Remarks
- ↑ Tony Kanaan was moved 10 positions back due to an early engine change.
- ↑ Graham Rahal was moved 10 positions back due to an early engine change.
- ↑ EJ Viso was moved 10 positions back due to a premature engine change.
- ↑ Simon Pagenaud was moved 10 positions back due to an early engine change.
Swell:
run
Swell:
Guide sections
| section | Round | driver |
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| 1 | 1-51 |
Helio Castroneves
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| 2 | 52-70 |
James Hinchcliffe
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| 3 | 71 |
Rubens Barrichello
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| 4th | 72 |
James Jakes
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| 5 | 73-154 |
Helio Castroneves
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| 6th | 155-156 |
Ryan Hunter-Reay
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| 7th | 157-176 |
Scott Dixon
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| 8th | 177-178 |
Ryan Briscoe
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| 9 | 179-181 |
Marco Andretti
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| 10 | 182-237 |
Scott Dixon
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| 11 | 238-250 |
Ryan Hunter-Reay
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Swell:
Yellow phases
| No. | Duration | Round | Reason for yellow phase |
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| 1 | 1-9 | 9 | Standstill: Dario Franchitti (# 10) and Alex Tagliani (# 98) in turn 3 |
| 2 | 68-83 | 16 | Contact: EJ Viso (# 5) and Will Power (# 12) in turn 2 |
| 3 | 98-110 | 13 | Contact: JR Hildebrand (# 4) in turn 1 |
| 4th | 179-194 | 16 | Contact: Ryan Briscoe (# 2) and Josef Newgarden (# 67) in turn 2 |
| 5 | 197-203 | 7th | Contact: James Hinchcliffe (# 27) on Turn 4 |
| 6th | 248-250 | 3 | Contact: Katherine Legge (# 6) in turn 2 |
Swell:
Score after the race
Driver ranking
The allocation of points is explained here .
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Manufacturer rating
| Item | Manufacturer | Points |
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| 1. |
Chevrolet
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72 |
| 2. |
Honda
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63 |
| 3. |
lotus
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36 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pete Fink, "Two Changes for Iowa". Motorsport-Total.com, June 18, 2012, accessed July 19, 2012 .
- ↑ Pete Fink: "Iowa: Additional Restart Monitoring". Motorsport-Total.com, June 22, 2012, accessed July 19, 2012 .
- ↑ Pete Fink: "Preview: New Qualifying in Iowa". Motorsport-Total.com, June 21, 2012, accessed July 19, 2012 .
- ↑ Pete Fink: "Andretti determines Iowa gallop". Motorsport-Total.com, June 22, 2012, accessed July 19, 2012 .
- ↑ Pete Fink: "Andretti also wins the 'Pre-Qualification'". Motorsport-Total.com, June 22, 2012, accessed July 19, 2012 .
- ↑ Mario Fritzsche: "Heat Race 1: Rahal wins before Newgarden". Motorsport-Total.com, June 23, 2012, accessed July 19, 2012 .
- ↑ Mario Fritzsche: "Heat Race 2: Kanaan prevails". Motorsport-Total.com, June 23, 2012, accessed July 19, 2012 .
- ↑ Mario Fritzsche: "Franchitti brings the Iowa Pole". Motorsport-Total.com, June 23, 2012, accessed July 19, 2012 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g Pete Fink: "Favorite death in Iowa: Hunter-Reay wins again". Motorsport-Total.com, June 24, 2012, accessed July 19, 2012 .
- ↑ Pete Fink: "Hunter-Reay: The new title candidate?" Motorsport-Total.com, June 26, 2012, accessed on July 19, 2012 .
- ^ "Entry List - Iowa Corn Indy 250". indycar.com, June 19, 2012, accessed June 23, 2012 .
- ↑ a b “Qualifications - Heat Race 1”. (PDF; 131 kB) indycar.com, June 22, 2012, accessed on June 29, 2012 (English).
- ↑ a b “Qualifications - Heat Race 2”. (PDF; 131 kB) indycar.com, June 22, 2012, accessed on July 5, 2012 (English).
- ↑ a b “Qualifications - Heat Race 3”. (PDF; 131 kB) indycar.com, June 22, 2012, accessed on July 5, 2012 .
- ^ "IZOD IndyCar Series - Iowa Corn Indy 250 at Iowa Speedway - QUALIFYING RESULTS". (PDF; 61 kB) indycar.com, June 22, 2012, accessed on July 5, 2012 (English).
- ^ "Official Starting Line Up". (PDF; 130 kB) indycar.com, June 22, 2012, accessed on July 5, 2012 (English).
- ↑ a b c “OFFICIAL BOX SCORE - Iowa Corn Indy 250”. (PDF; 31 kB) indycar.com, June 23, 2012, accessed on July 5, 2012 .
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