Itaipava São Paulo Indy 300 presented by Nestle 2013
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| 4th of 19 races of the IndyCar Series 2013 | ||
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| Surname: | Itaipava São Paulo Indy 300 presented by Nestle | |
| Date: | May 5, 2013 | |
| Place: |
 São Paulo , Brazil
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| Course: | Sao Paulo Street Circuit | |
| Length: | 306.097 km in 75 laps of 4.081 km
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| Weather: | slightly cloudy | |
| Pole position | ||
| Driver: |
 Ryan Hunter-Reay
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Andretti Autosport
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| Time: | 1: 20.4312 min | |
| Fastest lap | ||
| Driver: |
Tony Kanaan
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KV Racing Technology
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| Time: | 1: 20.4364 min (lap 60) | |
| Podium | ||
| First: |
 James Hinchcliffe
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Andretti Autosport
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| Second: |
 Takuma Satō
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AJ Foyt Enterprises
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| Third: |
Marco Andretti
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Andretti Autosport
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The Itaipava São Paulo Indy 300 presented by Nestle 2013 took place on May 5th at the São Paulo Street Circuit in São Paulo , Brazil and was the fourth race of the 2013 IndyCar Series season .
Reports
background
After the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach , Hélio Castroneves led the drivers' standings with 6 points on Takuma Satō and 10 points on Scott Dixon .
At the Itaipava São Paulo Indy 300 presented by Nestle, the 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.
There were minor changes to the route compared to the previous year. The curbs were changed in the first two corners. They became flatter and the ones further out, so that the second curve was three meters wider.
The starting field was reduced to this Indy by Mike Conway ( Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing ) and AJ Allmendinger ( Team Penske ), who drove an additional vehicle from their teams in the previous race.
Tony Kanaan started in this race for the 200th time in a row in an IndyCar race.
With Will Power (three times) is the only former winners entered in this Indy.
training
Training for the Indy in São Paulo began on Saturday and consisted of only two instead of three sessions, as the race weekend only consisted of two days instead of the usual three. The reason for the compression of the race weekend was the heavy volume of traffic in the city, which does not allow the race track to be cordoned off for longer.
In the first practice session, Power, the only winner of the event so far, took the lead. Training was stopped prematurely because Simon Pagenaud drove into the lane in the second corner. In the second training session, Power kept the lead. The training was interrupted four times. The first interruption was triggered by Tristan Vautier when he took off into the tire wall at turn 6. James Hinchcliffe provided the second red flag by slipping his hairpin. The third break in training became necessary in the first two turns after a departure from Canaan. Pagenaud again raised the last red flag. This time an electronic defect was the trigger. Pagenaud stopped on the start-finish straight.
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. In the first group EJ Viso drove the fastest lap, in the second group Simona de Silvestro was the fastest driver. In the second group, James Jakes rolled out at Turn 7. This gave it a red flag. As time went on, no driver could improve his times. Four drivers, including last year's winner Power, therefore missed a fast lap and were eliminated.
In the second segment of the qualification, the six fastest drivers qualified for the final section. Kanaan posted the fastest lap time. Beside him, Hinchcliffe, Viso, Dario Franchitti , Ryan Hunter-Reay and Dixon made it into the third part of qualifying, the so-called Firestone Fast Six .
Hunter-Reay finally set the fastest time and took pole position ahead of Viso and Franchitti. It was Viso's best qualifying result in the IndyCar Series so far.
Josef Newgarden was moved ten starting positions back due to an early engine change.
Final training
In the final training, Graham Rahal was fastest ahead of Viso and Dixon.
run
At the start, Hunter-Reay kept the lead. In the seventh lap, a technical defect in Ana Beatriz's vehicle triggered a yellow phase. Beatriz stopped at turn 10. Shortly after the restart, Kanaan took the lead. Power, who started the race from 22nd on the grid, overtook a number of opponents until his car caught fire on the start-finish straight on the 18th lap. Before that he had gearshift problems. Power was eliminated and there was another yellow phase.
During this Sébastien Bourdais took the lead. Shortly after the restart, the race was neutralized again as Rahal and Ed Carpenter collided in the second corner. Bourdais kept the lead even after this restart. After Bourdais had given the lead to Satō, there was again yellow, as debris was in turn 2. In the yellow phase, Hunter-Reay took the lead again. After the restart, there was a pile-up in the eighth corner, in which no driver was eliminated, but the track was blocked. Therefore there was another yellow phase. Hunter-Reay lost the lead shortly after the restart to Kanaan, who in turn was overtaken by Andretti one lap later.
Six laps after Kanaan lost the lead to Andretti, Kanaan stopped on the start-finish straight with no fuel. There was another yellow phase. Hildebrand took the lead and Kanaan resumed the race a little later with a tank of fuel. Hildebrand kept the lead for four laps until an accident of Wilson triggered the Indy's last yellow phase. In this yellow phase, Satō took the lead because Hildebrand pitted.
Satō was put under pressure after Newgarden restarted. But Newgarden put so much stress on his tires that he fell behind on the final laps. Hinchcliffe and his teammate Andretti, however, showed a final spurt. First he passed Pagenaud, then Newgarden. Hinchcliffe closed the gap to Satō and put his opponent under pressure in the closing stages. After he had not made it past at the beginning of the last lap, where Satō had defended himself with a marginal maneuver, Satō braked a bit in the last corner of the last lap and allowed Hinchcliffe the chance to attack. Hinchcliffe pulled past Satō and won the race. With a distance of 0.3463 s it was the closest finish on a street circuit in IndyCar history.
Satō was second ahead of Andretti, Oriol Servià and Newgarden. It was Newgarden's first top 10 finish in the IndyCar Series. He made up 20 positions in the race. Viso, Franchitti, de Silvestro, Pagenaud and Charlie Kimball completed the top 10 .
In the overall standings, Satō took the lead in front of Andretti and Castroneves.
Registration list
All teams and drivers used the chassis Dallara DW12 with an aero kit from Dallara and tires from Firestone .
Source:
Classifications
Qualifying
- Remarks
- ↑ Josef Newgarden was moved 10 positions back due to an early engine change.
Swell:
run
Swell:
Guide sections
| section | Round | driver |
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| 1 | 1-9 |
Ryan Hunter-Reay
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| 2 | 10-20 |
Tony Kanaan
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| 3 | 21-33 |
 Sébastien Bourdais
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| 4th | 34-37 |
Takuma Satō
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| 5 | 38-44 |
Ryan Hunter-Reay
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| 6th | 45 |
Tony Kanaan
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| 7th | 46-52 |
Marco Andretti
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| 8th | 53-56 |
JR Hildebrand
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| 9 | 57-74 |
Takuma Satō
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| 10 | 75 |
James Hinchcliffe
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Swell:
Yellow phases
| No. | Duration | Round | Reason for yellow phase |
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| 1 | 7-8 | 2 | Standstill: Ana Beatriz (# 18) in turn 10 |
| 2 | 19-22 | 4th | Standstill: Will Power (# 12) on the start-finish straight |
| 3 | 24-25 | 2 | Contact: Graham Rahal (# 15) and Ed Carpenter (# 20) in turn 2 |
| 4th | 37-38 | 2 | Debris in curve 2 |
| 5 | 40-43 | 4th | Contact: Hélio Castroneves (# 3), JR Hildebrand (# 4), Sébastien Bourdais (# 7), Simon Pagenaud (# 77) and Charlie Kimball (# 83) in turn 8 |
| 6th | 52-53 | 2 | Standstill: Tony Kanaan (# 11) on the start-finish straight |
| 7th | 56-58 | 3 | Contact: Justin Wilson (# 19) in turn 5 |
Swell:
Score after the race
Driver ranking
The allocation of points is explained here .
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Individual evidence
- ^ “IndyCar removes push-to-pass delay for 2013 season”. autosport.com, March 19, 2013, accessed March 19, 2013 .
- ↑ Pete Fink: "Preview: IndyCars in Samba Land". Motorsport-Total.com, May 3, 2013, accessed June 15, 2013 .
- ↑ “Long Beach by numbers: Five teams in the top five”. indycar.com, April 23, 2013, accessed June 15, 2013 .
- ↑ a b "Sao Paulo Prelude: Nothing New in Brazil". Pete Fink, May 4, 2013, accessed June 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Mario Fritzsche: "Power is increasing: Best time also in the second Sao Paulo training". Motorsport-Total.com, May 4, 2013, accessed June 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Mario Fritzsche: "Sao Paulo: Hunter-Reay takes pole position". Motorsport-Total.com, May 4, 2013, accessed June 15, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c d e “Last Lap Drama: Hinchcliffe wins in Sao Paulo”. Motorsport-Total.com, May 5, 2013, accessed June 15, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Dave Lewandowski: “Hinchcliffe's 2013 season: Two victories, two DNFs”. indycar.com, May 5, 2013, accessed June 15, 2013 .
- ↑ Fabian Schneider: "IndyCar - James Hinchcliffe wins in the last corner". Heartbeat finals in Sao Paulo. Motorsport-Magazin.com, May 5, 2013, accessed June 15, 2013 .
- ^ A b Mark Glendenning: “Sao Paulo IndyCar: James Hinchcliffe beats Takuma Sato in epic race”. May 5, 2013, accessed June 15, 2013 .
- ↑ “Inside the box score: Brazil numbers to note”. indycar.com, May 6, 2013, accessed June 15, 2013 .
- ↑ “Entry List - Itaipava Sao Paulo Indy 300 presented by Nestle”. (PDF; 35 kB) indycar.com, April 29, 2013, accessed on June 10, 2013 (English).
- ↑ “Itaipava Sao Paulo Indy 300 presented by Nestle at Streets of Sao Paulo”. (PDF; 63 kB) indycar.com, May 4, 2014, accessed June 10, 2013 .
- ↑ “Itaipava Sao Paulo Indy 300 - Official Starting Line Up”. (PDF; 130 kB) indycar.com, May 5, 2013, accessed June 10, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c “OFFICIAL BOX SCORE - Itaipava Sao Paulo Indy 300”. (PDF; 48 kB) indycar.com, May 5, 2013, accessed on June 12, 2013 (English).
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