MAVTV 500 2013

MAVTV 500 2013

Racing data
19th of 19 races in the IndyCar Series 2013
Surname:	MAVTV 500
Date:	19th October 2013
Place:	Fontana , California , United States
Course:	Auto Club Speedway
Length:	804.672 km in 250 laps of 3.219 km
Pole position
Driver:	Will power	Team Penske
Time:	1: 05.2247 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport
Time:	0: 32.9518 min (lap 127)
Podium
First:	Will power	Team Penske
Second:	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing
Third:	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing Technology

The 2013 MAVTV 500 took place on October 19th at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana , California , United States and was the 19th and final race of the 2013 IndyCar Series .

Reports

background

After the Shell and Pennzoil Grand Prix of Houston , Scott Dixon led the drivers' standings with 25 points over Hélio Castroneves and 55 points over Simon Pagenaud , who had no more chance of winning the championship.

There were five changes in the starting field. Dario Franchitti dropped out after his serious accident in the previous race with a broken ankle and two vertebral fractures. Target Chip Ganassi Racing replaced him with Alex Tagliani , who last worked for Bryan Herta Autosport at the Honda Indy Toronto . EJ Viso was also unable to attend due to health reasons, as he had the flu. His Andretti cockpit was taken over by Carlos Muñoz , who was also last used in Toronto. Back then as an injury representative at Panther Racing . In addition, Muñoz took part in Lefty's Kids Club 100 , the Indy Lights race in Fontana, this weekend . He decided this for himself. There were also two scheduled changes. Pippa Mann took over the cockpit of Dale Coyne Racing from Mike Conway . She last drove this vehicle in the Pocono IndyCar 400 . JR Hildebrand replaced Luca Filippi at Bryan Herta Autosport. It was his second season outing for the racing team after the GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma . Penske used a third vehicle again. As most recently with the Chevrolet Indy Dual in Detroit , AJ Allmendinger was the driver of this vehicle. It was a one-time return for Allmendinger, as the third Penske vehicle, which will be used continuously from this race on, will be driven by Juan Pablo Montoya next season .

Together with the Indianapolis 500 and the Pocono IndyCar 400, the MAVTV 500 formed the Triple Crown . Had Tony Kanaan and Dixon won the race, the winner would have a bonus of 250,000 US dollars received.

With Ed Carpenter (once) a former winner entered this race.

training

In practice Will Power set the fastest lap ahead of Kanaan and James Hinchcliffe . The first three drivers set their best time at the beginning of the training. Powers Penske teammates Allmendinger and Castroneves finished fourth and fifth, so that Team Penske had all vehicles in the top five. Championship leader Dixon was one place behind Castroneves, his title opponent.

The training was interrupted twice. Initially, Mann lost the rear of her vehicle in the fourth corner. Takuma Satō later also had an accident in the same place. His vehicle was badly damaged. Mann and Satō were unharmed.

Qualifying

Qualifying took place in an individual time trial over two laps. Power achieved the fastest lap ahead of his teammates Castroneves and Allmendinger. Dixon finished seventh. Although it was Castroneves' turn before Power, Penske decided to give Power free rein. Since Dixon should go out after the two, Penske wanted to prevent Dixon from receiving the bonus point for pole position. It was Powers 32nd IndyCar pole position. So he drew level with Michael Andretti and together with him took seventh place in the all-time best list.

After the accidents in practice, Mann and Satō did not take part in qualifying because their vehicles could not be repaired in time. Justin Wilson did not set any time because he had stopped trying. Eight drivers, including Castroneves and Dixon, were moved ten positions back due to premature engine changes.

Final training

In the final training session, which took place under floodlights on Friday evening, Marco Andretti set the fastest time ahead of Castroneves and Carpenter. Dixon finished sixth. All drivers took part in the final training.

run

The start of the race was postponed by 10 minutes because the sun would have blinded the drivers at the entrance to the third corner shortly before it went down. The race took place on Saturday evening.

After Power retained the lead at the start, Sébastien Bourdais took the lead on lap 12. Castroneves and Ryan Hunter-Reay got off to a good start and soon made it into the leading lap, while Dixon was in midfield. The first pit stops took place under green flags, so that there were several changes in leadership. Hunter-Reay eventually took the lead for over 40 laps.

The first caution phase occurred on lap 71, as Sebastian Saavedra and Mann had an accident in the third corner. Saavedra had lost control of his vehicle and Mann was involved in an evasive maneuver. The drivers used the caution period for pit stops and Dixon improved to sixth place. However, he was slowed down by a bad restart from Power, who was driving in front of him, and he fell back into midfield. While Bourdais and Castroneves were dueling at the front, Muñoz, who had moved up to third place, lost control of his car and hit the wall on the second corner.

A few laps after the restart, there was a serious accident in the second corner on lap 111. Wilson lost control of his vehicle and was hit on the side by Tristan Vautier . Josef Newgarden and Oriol Servià collided during evasive maneuvers . James Jakes and Simona de Silvestro damaged their car. Only de Silvestro was able to resume the race. Wilson's cab broke twice on the side in the impact. Wilson suffered three pelvic fractures and one lung contusion in the accident. The fractures did not have to be operated on. In view of the fact that his chassis was broken in the accident, however, these were relatively minor injuries. All other involved were unharmed.

After the restart, Castroneves fell behind with balance problems. The Ganassi gained in this phase. Dixon passed Castroneves and Tagliani briefly took the lead. Most of the leading laps in this racing phase, however, were completed by Power. Castroneves changed his setup at the following pit stops under the green flag. Power was leading ahead of Dixon, Tagliani, Castroneves and Hunter-Reay. While the next stops took place under the green flag, the next yellow phase occurred. Carpenter slowed too much before he stopped. As a result, Allmendinger lost control of his vehicle and hit the fourth corner. In the meantime, Satō had failed with technical problems.

After the restart, Power led Dixon, Charlie Kimball , Castroneves and Tagliani. However, Tagliani spun 41 laps before the end in the second corner and triggered a caution period. He failed in the accident. Shortly before, Graham Rahal had given up with engine problems.

In the caution phase, Penske made a serious mistake. The team overlooked that the pit lane was closed and called Castroneves into the pits. For this he was given a drive-through penalty, which threw him back to ninth place. At the restart Castroneves drove up to first place. He damaged his front wing in a duel with Kimball and had to pit again. He fell out of the leadership lap.

While Pagenaud had given up with technical problems, Bourdais had an accident in the third corner which triggered a caution period. Shortly before that, Dixon's engine began to overheat. During the yellow phase, Dixon pitted several times and never lost a lap. Shortly after the restart there was another yellow phase because Hildebrand and Kimball had suffered engine damage. Shortly before the end, Hunter-Reay also gave up.

Power eventually won the race ahead of Carpenter, Kanaan, Hinchcliffe and Dixon. These five pilots were the only ones in the lead lap. Castroneves was sixth ahead of Andretti and de Silvestro. The already eliminated Hunter-Reay and Kimball completed the top 10. There were a total of 28 leadership changes.

Scott Dixon became IndyCar Champion for the third time

Power, who won only the second time on an oval course, described the win as the most satisfying of his entire career. After Power had always been the overall leader in the last race of the season in the last three years and had lost the title in these races, he won the last race in the year in which he had no title chances.

Dixon thus decided the championship ahead of Castroneves and Pagenaud. It was his third title win after 2003 and 2008. He won all titles for Target Chip Ganassi Racing. Castroneves missed winning the title again. In his 16th IndyCar season, he finished second overall for the third time.

With nine to eight wins, the manufacturers' championship went to Chevrolet .

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	02	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet
	03	Helio Castroneves
	12	Will power
Panther Racing	04th	Oriol Servià	Chevrolet
Team Venezuela / Andretti Autosport / HVM	05	Carlos Muñoz	Chevrolet
Dragon Racing	06th	Sebastian Saavedra	Chevrolet
	07th	Sébastien Bourdais
Target Chip Ganassi Racing	09	Scott Dixon	Honda
	10	Alex Tagliani
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	Pippa man	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	JR Hildebrand	Honda

Source:

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	team	vehicle	time	Ø speed in mph	begin
01	Will power	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 05.2247	220.775	01
02	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 05.5508	219.677	12
03	AJ Allmendinger	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 05.7854	218,894	02
04th	Sébastien Bourdais	Dragon Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 05.9000	218,513	03
05	Charlie Kimball	Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 06.0592	217.986	04th
06th	James Jakes	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 06.0613	217.979	05
07th	Scott Dixon	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 06.0613	217.979	17th
08th	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 06.0678	217,958	06th
09	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 06.0758	217,932	07th
10	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 06.0942	217.871	20th
11	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 06.1164	217.798	08th
12	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 06.1867	217,566	09
13	Alex Tagliani	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 06.2316	217,419	21st
14th	Carlos Muñoz	Team Venezuela / Andretti Autosport / HVM	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 06.3441	217,050	10
15th	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 06.3908	216.898	11
16	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	1: 06.5290	216,447	13
17th	Oriol Servià	Panther Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 06.6010	216.213	14th
18th	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 06.6341	216.106	22nd
19th	JR Hildebrand	Bryan Herta Autosport w / Curb-Agajanian	Dallara - Honda	1: 06.6769	215.967	15th
20th	Tristan Vautier	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	1: 06.9124	215.207	23
21st	Simona de Silvestro	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 07.0768	214.679	16
22nd	Sebastian Saavedra	Dragon Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 07.5226	213,262	24
23	Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	no time	-	18th
24	Pippa man	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	no time	-	19th
25th	Takuma Satō	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara - Honda	no time	-	25th

Remarks

1. ↑ Hélio Castroneves was moved 10 positions back due to an early engine change.
2. ↑ Scott Dixon was moved 10 positions back due to an early engine change.
3. ↑ Josef Newgarden was moved 10 positions back due to an early engine change.
4. ↑ Alex Tagliani was moved 10 positions back due to an early engine change.
5. ↑ Graham Rahal was moved 10 positions back due to an early engine change.
6. ↑ Tristan Vautier was moved 10 positions back due to an early engine change.
7. ↑ Sebastian Saavedra was moved 10 positions back due to an early engine change.
8. ↑ Takuma Satō was moved 10 positions back due to an early engine change.

Swell:

run

Item	driver	team	vehicle	Round	time	begin	Leadership laps
01	Will power	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	250	3: 13: 42.8699	01	103
02	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	250	+1.4883	07th	001
03	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	250	+ 1.8615	09	003
04th	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	250	+ 3.0395	08th	000
05	Scott Dixon	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	250	+ 15.8759	17th	005
06th	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	249	+ 1 lap	12	027
07th	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	248	+ 2 rounds	06th	003
08th	Simona de Silvestro	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	247	+ 3 rounds	16	000
09	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Chevrolet	242	DNF	11	045
10	Charlie Kimball	Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	238	DNF	04th	022nd
11	JR Hildebrand	Bryan Herta Autosport w / Curb-Agajanian	Dallara - Honda	237	DNF	15th	000
12	Sébastien Bourdais	Dragon Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	229	DNF	03	035
13	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	217	DNF	13	000
14th	Alex Tagliani	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara - Honda	209	DNF	21st	005
15th	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Dallara - Honda	200	DNF	22nd	000
16	AJ Allmendinger	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	188	DNF	02	000
17th	Takuma Satō	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara - Honda	144	DNF	25th	000
18th	Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	110	DNF	18th	000
19th	Oriol Servià	Panther Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	110	DNF	14th	000
20th	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Dallara - Honda	110	DNF	20th	000
21st	Tristan Vautier	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	110	DNF	23	000
22nd	James Jakes	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Dallara - Honda	110	DNF	05	001
23	Carlos Muñoz	Team Venezuela / Andretti Autosport / HVM	Dallara - Chevrolet	100	DNF	10	000
24	Sebastian Saavedra	Dragon Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	069	DNF	24	000
25th	Pippa man	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	068	DNF	19th	000

Swell:

Guide sections

section Round driver 1 1-11  Will power 2 12-31  Sébastien Bourdais 3 32-34  Ryan Hunter-Reay 4th 35-38  Will power 5 39  James Jakes 6th 40-81  Ryan Hunter-Reay 7th 82  Helio Castroneves 8th 83-84  Marco Andretti 9 85-86  Helio Castroneves 10 87-89  Tony Kanaan

section Round driver 11 90-102  Sébastien Bourdais 12 103-126  Helio Castroneves 13 127-128  Alex Tagliani 14th 129  Sébastien Bourdais 15th 130-131  Alex Tagliani 16 132  Marco Andretti 17th 133  Alex Tagliani 18th 134-160  Will power 19th 161-163  Charlie Kimball 20th 164-193  Will power

section Round driver 21st 194  Ed Carpenter 22nd 195-198  Scott Dixon 23 199-215  Will power 24 216  Charlie Kimball 25th 217  Scott Dixon 26th 218-227  Charlie Kimball 27 228  Sébastien Bourdais 28 229-236  Charlie Kimball 29 237-250  Will power

Swell:

Yellow phases

No.	Duration	Round	Reason for yellow phase
1	71-80	10	Contact: Sebastian Saavedra (# 6) and Pippa Mann (# 18) in turn 3
2	101-107	7th	Contact: Carlos Muñoz (# 5) in turn 2
3	111-125	15th	Contact: Oriol Servià (# 4), James Jakes (# 16), Justin Wilson (# 19), Tristan Vautier (# 55), Josef Newgarden (# 67) and Simona de Silvestro (# 78) in turn 2
4th	190-197	8th	Contact: AJ Allmendinger (# 2) in turn 4
5	210-214	5	Contact: Alex Tagliani (# 10) in turn 2
6th	230-235	6th	Contact: Sébastien Bourdais (# 7) in turn 3
7th	238-241	4th	Standstill: JR Hildebrand (# 98) in turn 1, Rauch at Charlie Kimball (# 83)

Swell:

Score after the race

Driver ranking

The allocation of points is explained here .

Item driver Points 01.  Scott Dixon 577 02.  Helio Castroneves 550 03.  Simon Pagenaud 508 04th  Will power 498 05.  Marco Andretti 484 06th  Justin Wilson 472 07th  Ryan Hunter-Reay 469 08th.  James Hinchcliffe 449 09.  Charlie Kimball 427 10.  Dario Franchitti 418 11.  Tony Kanaan 397 12.  Sébastien Bourdais 370 13.  Simona de Silvestro 362

Item driver Points 14th  Josef Newgarden 348 15th  EJ Viso 340 16.  Ed Carpenter 333 17th  Takuma Satō 322 18th  Graham Rahal 319 19th  James Jakes 294 20th  Tristan Vautier 266 21st  Sebastian Saavedra 236 22nd  Oriol Servià 233 23.  Mike Conway 185 24.  Alex Tagliani 180 25th  JR Hildebrand 112 26th  Ryan Briscoe 100

Item driver Points 27.  AJ Allmendinger 79 28.  Carlos Muñoz 74 29  Ana Beatriz 72 30th  Luca Filippi 53 31.  Pippa man 34 32.  James Davison 27 33.  Stefan Wilson 14th 34.  Conor Daly 11 35.  Townsend Bell 10 36.  Lucas Luhr 8th 37.  Katherine Legge 8th 38.  Buddy Lazier 8th

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Pete Fink: "Andretti extended, Viso sick, Munoz drives". Motorsport-Total.com, October 18, 2013, accessed October 20, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Dave Lewandowski: “Allmendinger to compete in MAVTV 500 season finale”. indycar.com, October 9, 2013, accessed October 20, 2013 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Dave Lewandowski: “Contenders separated by .0160 of a second on track”. indycar.com, October 18, 2013, accessed October 21, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Pete Fink: "Penske determines the Fontana start - Sato crashes". Motorsport-Total.com, October 18, 2013, accessed October 21, 2013 . 
6. ^ Mark Glendenning: "Fontana IndyCar: Will Power tops opening session for Penske". autorsport.com, October 18, 2013, accessed October 21, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Pete Fink: "The game begins: Three Penske in row one - Dixon seventh". Motorsport-Total.com, October 19, 2013, accessed October 21, 2013 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b} Dave Lewandowski: “Team Penske sweeps front row for season finale”. indycar.com, October 18, 2013, accessed October 21, 2013 . 
9. ^ Mark Glendenning: "Fontana IndyCar: Will Power takes pole for championship decider". autosport.com, October 18, 2013, accessed October 21, 2013 . 
10. ↑ Pete Fink: "Andretti fast - start time postponed". Motorsport-Total.com, October 19, 2013, accessed October 21, 2013 . 
11. ^ ^{A b} Mark Glendenning: “Fontana IndyCar: Marco Andretti fastest in night practice”. autosport.com, October 19, 2013, accessed October 21, 2013 . 
12. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Pete Fink: "Crazy Fontana Show: Power wins - Dixon Meister". Motorsport-Total.com, October 20, 2013, accessed October 22, 2013 . 
13. ↑ Dave Lewandowski: "Justin Wilson will return to Colorado home after brief hospital stay". indycar.com, October 20, 2013, accessed October 22, 2013 . 
14. ↑ Pete Fink: "Wilson Crash: Luck in Misfortune". Motorsport-Total.com, October 22, 2013, accessed October 22, 2013 . 
15. ↑ ^{a b} Dave Lewandowski: “Dixon clinches third title; Power claims final race ”. indycar.com, October 20, 2013, accessed October 22, 2013 . 
16. ^ Mark Glendenning: “Fontana IndyCar: Scott Dixon claims third title, Will Power wins”. autosport.com, October 20, 2013, accessed October 22, 2013 . 
17. ^ Jeff Olson: "With no pressure, Will Power dominates for win in Fontana finale". usatoday.com, October 20, 2013, accessed October 22, 2013 . 
18. ↑ “Entry List -MAVTV 500”. (PDF) indycar.com, October 18, 2013, accessed October 20, 2013 (English). 
19. ^ "MAVTV 500 at Auto Club Speedway". (PDF; 60 kB) indycar.com, October 18, 2013, accessed on October 20, 2013 . 
20. ↑ “MAVTV 500 - Official Starting Line Up”. (PDF; 130 kB) indycar.com, October 19, 2013, accessed on October 20, 2013 . 
21. ↑ ^{a b c} “OFFICIAL BOX SCORE - MAVTV 500”. (PDF; 23 kB) indycar.com, October 19, 2013, accessed on October 20, 2013 (English).