Iowa Corn Indy 300 2014

Iowa Corn Indy 300 2014

Racing data
12th of 18 races in the IndyCar Series 2014
Surname:	Iowa Corn Indy 300
Date:	July 12, 2014
Place:	Newton , Iowa , United States
Course:	Iowa Speedway
Length:	431.626 km in 300 laps of 1.438 km
Weather:	cloudy
Pole position
Driver:	Scott Dixon	Target Chip Ganassi Racing
Time:	0: 34.5588 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing
Time:	0: 17.8771 min (lap 298)
Podium
First:	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport
Second:	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing
Third:	Tony Kanaan	Target Chip Ganassi Racing

The 2014 Iowa Corn Indy 300 took place on July 12th at Iowa Speedway in Newton , Iowa , United States and was the twelfth race of the 2014 IndyCar Series .

Reports

background

After the Pocono IndyCar 500 , Will Power led the drivers' standings without a lead over Hélio Castroneves and with 44 points over Simon Pagenaud .

Compared to previous editions of the Iowa Corn Indy, the distance has been increased by 50 laps to 300 laps.

The race took place under floodlights on Saturday evening.

With Tony Kanaan , Marco Andretti , Ryan Hunter-Reay and James Hinchcliffe , four former winners competed in this race. Andretti Autosport has been unbeaten at this Indy for four years .

training

Due to rain on Friday, the original plan, which included a 75-minute practice session, a qualifying session and a 30-minute final session, was modified. The final training was canceled and a second training was added between the first training and qualifying, and qualifying was postponed. The first workout lasted 15 minutes, the second 90 minutes.

In the first training session, Hinchcliffe was the fastest. Kanaan was second, Carlos Muñoz third.

In the second training session, Juan Pablo Montoya set the fastest time ahead of his teammates Power and Hinchcliffe.

Qualifying

The qualifying was held in the individual time trial. The starting order for the individual time trial was drawn. Each pilot drove two fast laps in a row. The average speed achieved in the process decided the order of the starting grid.

Scott Dixon was the fastest, taking pole position ahead of his teammates Kanaan and Castroneves. With Ryan Briscoe (4th place) and Charlie Kimball (7th place), all four Ganassi pilots made it into the top 10. Montoya, who was the fastest in training, only finished 19th on the grid.

run

The race was characterized by many wheel-to-wheel duels, which resulted from the characteristics of the track.

Dixon lost the lead in the first round and Kanaan took the lead. Due to rain, the race was neutralized with the yellow flag on the 33rd lap before it was interrupted on the 39th lap. After a break of 26 minutes, things continued behind the safety car. Before the race was released, the drivers pitted so that Castroneves was in the lead at the restart. At the restart, Mikhail Aleshin made a driver error. He triggered a collision in which he and Takuma Satō were eliminated.

In the 77th round, Kanaan again took the lead from Castroneves. Kanaan led the race for the next 170 races continuously. Due to debris in the third corner, the race was neutralized again for several laps on the 90th lap. In the meantime, Carlos Huertas had given up for health reasons. Montoya had to change his rear wing in the first third and lost a lap, which he made up later on.

Sebastian Saavedra had worked his way up to third position by starting from 17th place by lap 160. He brushed against the wall and triggered a yellow phase. He drove a few more laps, but gave up before the end of the race. In the meantime, Sébastien Bourdais was eliminated due to a technical problem. On the 230th lap, Andretti stopped on the back straight with an engine failure. To rescue the vehicle, the race was continued behind the safety car.

Seven laps after the restart, Kanaan lost the lead due to a pit stop for several laps to his team-mate Dixon. On the 281st lap, Ed Carpenter and Montoya collided in a duel for fifth place. Carpenter had overlooked Montoya and blocked. Montoya drove into the lane and retired. Carpenter admitted his mistake after the race. The race that had dominated Canaan up to that point then took a turn that turned the race on its head. Hunter-Reay and Josef Newgarden were called to the pits by their racing strategists Michael Andretti and Andy O'Gara on lap 284. Both drivers were then outside the top 10.

Hunter-Reay and Newgarden compared the rounds after the restart to a video game. Before the restart, Kanaan led Dixon, Castroneves and Power. Hunter-Reay and Newgarden overtook all other drivers in the last 11 laps after the restart. Hunter-Reay took the lead, Newgarden finished second. The other drivers had no chance against them on older tires.

Hunter-Reay, who was only two laps ahead, eventually won ahead of Newgarden. Kanaan finished third with 247 laps ahead of Dixon and Carpenter. Hinchcliffe, Graham Rahal , Castroneves, Briscoe and Kimball completed the top 10. This meant that all four Ganassi vehicles were in the top 10. Hunter-Reay won his third race of the season and Andretti Autosport achieved the fifth victory in a row at this event.

In the drivers' championship, Castroneves took the lead from Power, who was now second. Hunter-Reay improved to third place.

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
Penske Motorsports	02	Juan Pablo Montoya	Chevrolet
Team Penske	03	Helio Castroneves
	12	Will power
Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	07th	Mikhail Aleshin	Honda
NTT data chip Ganassi Racing	08th	Ryan Briscoe	Chevrolet
Target Chip Ganassi Racing	09	Scott Dixon
	10	Tony Kanaan
KVSH Racing	11	Sébastien Bourdais	Chevrolet
AJ Foyt Enterprises	14th	Takuma Satō	Honda
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	15th	Graham Rahal	Honda
KV AFS Racing	17th	Sebastian Saavedra	Chevrolet
Dale Coyne Racing	18th	Carlos Huertas	Honda
	19th	Justin Wilson
Ed Carpenter Racing	20th	Ed Carpenter	Chevrolet
Andretti Autosport	25th	Marco Andretti	Honda
	27	James Hinchcliffe
	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay
Andretti - HVM	34	Carlos Muñoz
Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	67	Josef Newgarden	Honda
Schmidt Peterson Hamilton Motorsports	77	Simon Pagenaud	Honda
Chip Ganassi Racing Teams	83	Charlie Kimball	Chevrolet
BHA / BBM with Curb Agajanian	98	Jack Hawksworth	Honda

Source:

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	team	vehicle	time	Ø speed in mph	begin
01	Scott Dixon	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	0: 34.5588	186.256	01
02	Tony Kanaan	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	0: 34.6267	185.891	02
03	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	0: 34.6651	185.685	03
04th	Ryan Briscoe	NTT data chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	0: 34.7299	185.339	04th
05	Carlos Muñoz	Andretti - HVM	Dallara - Honda	0: 34.7885	185.027	05
06th	Sébastien Bourdais	KVSH Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	0: 34.7995	184.968	06th
07th	Charlie Kimball	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams	Dallara - Honda	0: 34.8420	184.743	07th
08th	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Honda	0: 34.8451	184.726	08th
09	Will power	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	0: 34.8533	184.683	09
10	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	0: 34.8710	184,589	10
11	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Peterson Hamilton Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	0: 34.9106	184.380	11
12	Mikhail Aleshin	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	0: 34.9226	184.316	12
13	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Honda	0: 35.0308	183.747	13
14th	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Honda	0: 35.1070	183,348	14th
15th	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Dallara - Honda	0: 35.1351	183,201	15th
16	Takuma Satō	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara - Honda	0: 35.1567	183.089	16
17th	Sebastian Saavedra	KV AFS Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	0: 35.1578	183.083	17th
18th	Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	0: 35.2788	182.455	18th
19th	Juan Pablo Montoya	Penske Motorsports	Dallara - Chevrolet	0: 35.3055	182.317	19th
20th	Jack Hawksworth	BHA / BBM with Curb Agajanian	Dallara - Honda	0: 35.5148	181.243	20th
21st	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Dallara - Honda	0: 35.5649	180.987	21st
22nd	Carlos Huertas	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	0: 36.1926	177.849	22nd

Swell:

run

Item	driver	team	vehicle	Round	time	begin	Leadership laps
01	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Honda	300	2: 01: 58.8160	13	002
02	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Dallara - Honda	300	+ 0.5814	21st	000
03	Tony Kanaan	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	300	+ 1.0676	02	247
04th	Scott Dixon	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	300	+ 2.7606	01	017th
05	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	300	+ 4.9819	10	000
06th	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Honda	300	+ 5.0135	14th	000
07th	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Dallara - Honda	300	+ 6.7976	15th	000
08th	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	300	+ 7.1408	03	034
09	Ryan Briscoe	NTT data chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	300	+ 7.1896	04th	000
10	Charlie Kimball	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams	Dallara - Honda	300	+ 7.6098	07th	000
11	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Peterson Hamilton Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	300	+ 7.7794	11	000
12	Carlos Muñoz	Andretti - HVM	Dallara - Honda	300	+ 7.8190	05	000
13	Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	300	+ 11.2612	18th	000
14th	Will power	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	300	+ 11.7947	09	000
15th	Jack Hawksworth	BHA / BBM with Curb Agajanian	Dallara - Honda	296	+ 4 rounds	20th	000
16	Juan Pablo Montoya	Penske Motorsports	Dallara - Chevrolet	280	DNF	19th	000
17th	Sebastian Saavedra	KV AFS Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	258	DNF	17th	000
18th	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Honda	229	DNF	08th	000
19th	Sébastien Bourdais	KVSH Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	130	DNF	06th	000
20th	Carlos Huertas	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	078	DNF	22nd	000
21st	Mikhail Aleshin	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	047	DNF	12	000
22nd	Takuma Satō	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara - Honda	047	DNF	16	000

Swell:

Guide sections

section	Round	driver
01	1	Scott Dixon
02	2-42	Tony Kanaan
03	43-76	Helio Castroneves
04th	77-247	Tony Kanaan
05	248-263	Scott Dixon
06th	264-298	Tony Kanaan
07th	299-300	Ryan Hunter-Reay

Swell:

Yellow phases

No.	Duration	Round	Reason for yellow phase
1	33-38	6th	Track conditions: wet
2	39-47	9	Red flag / restart
3	49-62	14th	Contact: Mikhail Aleshin (# 7) and Takuma Satō (# 14) in turn 4
4th	90-98	9	Debris in curve 3
5	161-170	10	Contact: Sebastian Saavedra (# 17) in turn 2
6th	231-241	11	Standstill: Marco Andretti (# 25) on the back straight
7th	282-290	9	Contact: Juan Pablo Montoya (# 2) and Ed Carpenter (# 20) in turn 3

Swell:

Score after the race

Driver ranking

The allocation of points is explained here .

Item driver Points 01.  Helio Castroneves 471 02.  Will power 462 03.  Ryan Hunter-Reay 439 04th  Simon Pagenaud 421 05.  Juan Pablo Montoya 405 06th  Carlos Muñoz 358 07th  Marco Andretti 337 08th.  Scott Dixon 331 09.  Ryan Briscoe 307 10.  Tony Kanaan 305 11.  James Hinchcliffe 294 12.  Sébastien Bourdais 282

Item driver Points 13.  Mikhail Aleshin 272 14th  Justin Wilson 270 15th  Josef Newgarden 260 16.  Charlie Kimball 259 17th  Jack Hawksworth 242 18th  Carlos Huertas 234 19th  Graham Rahal 228 20th  Sebastian Saavedra 209 21st  Takuma Satō 197 22nd  Ed Carpenter 168 23.  Mike Conway 152 24.  Oriol Servià 88

Item driver Points 25th  Kurt Busch 80 26th  JR Hildebrand 66 27.  Say Karam 57 28.  James Davison 34 29  Jacques Villeneuve 29 30th  Alex Tagliani 28 31.  Luca Filippi 24 32.  Townsend Bell 22nd 33.  Pippa man 21st 34.  Martin Plowman 18th 35.  Buddy Lazier 11 36.  Franck Montagny 8th

Individual evidence

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16. ↑ ^{a b} Dave Lewandowski: “Runner-up Newgarden: 'It was like a video game'”. indycar.com, July 12, 2014, accessed December 23, 2014 . 
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