Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach 2015

Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach 2015

Racing data
3rd of 16 races of the IndyCar Series 2015
Surname:	Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
Date:	April 19, 2015
Place:	Long Beach , California , United States
Course:	Long Beach Grand Prix Circuit
Length:	253.375 km in 80 laps of 3.167 km
Weather:	sunny
Pole position
Driver:	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske
Time:	1: 06.6294 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Stefano Coletti	KV Racing Technology
Time:	1: 08.0969 min (lap 56)
Podium
First:	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
Second:	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske
Third:	Juan Pablo Montoya	Team Penske

The 2015 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach took place on April 19 at the Long Beach Grand Prix Circuit in Long Beach , California , United States and was the third race of the 2015 IndyCar Series . It was the 41st Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.

Reports

background

After the Indy Grand Prix of Louisiana , Juan Pablo Montoya led the drivers' standings with ten points ahead of Hélio Castroneves and with 14 points ahead of Will Power .

The aero kits were improved again at the request of the IndyCar race management. Chevrolet removed the telescopic winglets on the front wing. Honda reinforced the rear wheel fairing again.

There were three changes in the starting field. Andretti Autosport no longer used an additional fourth vehicle for Simona de Silvestro and reduced the line-up to three vehicles. Sage Karam has been replaced by Sebastián Saavedra at Chip Ganassi Racing . The two shared the vehicle for the next season, with Saavedra taking over the car in a total of four races. After two years as a full-time pilot for 2015, Saavedra had not received a cockpit for a full season. Dale Coyne Racing replaced Carlos Huertas with Rocky Moran Jr. for this Grand Prix . who last took part in a formula race in 2005 and wanted to debut in the IndyCar Series. However, since he injured himself in practice, Conor Daly took over the cockpit for the rest of the race weekend. Daly was last active at the Indianapolis 500 2013 in the IndyCar Series.

With Sébastien Bourdais (three times), Power (twice), Montoya, Castroneves, Ryan Hunter-Reay and Takuma Satō (once each), six former winners competed in this Grand Prix.

training

There were three training sessions lasting 45 minutes each. Scott Dixon set the fastest time in the first practice session ahead of teammates Tony Kanaan and Hunter-Reay. Both Dale Coyne pilots were at the bottom of the field, with debutant Moran distancing his teammate Dracone more than a second. The first training went without a break.

In the second training session there was a Penske three-fold tour with power in front of Simon Pagenaud and Castroneves. There was an interruption after Carlos Muñoz collided with Moran in the first corner. Moran, who was not to blame for the incident, hit the tire wall. Moran broke his left thumb and was injured for the rest of the race weekend.

In the third training session, Daly took over the Dale-Coyne cockpit from Moran. Once again, three Penske drivers led the field: Pagenaud in front of Castroneves and Power. Practice was interrupted once after Jack Hawksworth spun in the middle of the track. Stefano Coletti touched the wall in the last corner, but drove the damaged vehicle back to the pits, so there was no interruption here.

Qualifying

The first part of the qualifying was held in two groups according to the usual qualifying system for street courses. 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, Kanaan drove the fastest lap, in the second group Montoya was the fastest driver. The first section of the second group was canceled after Coletti crashed into the wall in the fifth corner. As a result, among other things, Power was eliminated, who had not previously achieved a sufficiently fast time. Coletti lost the fastest times so that he could not make it into the second section and instead fell back to the bottom of the field.

In the second segment of the qualification, the six fastest drivers qualified for the final section. Pagenaud achieved the fastest lap time. Alongside him, Josef Newgarden , Castroneves, Montoya, Dixon and Hunter-Reay made it into the third part of qualifying, the so-called Firestone Fast Six.

In the third part, Castroneves finally set the fastest time and achieved pole position in front of his teammates Montoya and Dixon. Castroneves drove the fastest lap time ever achieved on this track configuration. It was Castroneve's 42nd IndyCar Pole, with whom he was fourth on the all-time IndyCar Pole leaderboard at the time.

Final training

In the final training session on the Sunday before the race, Newgarden set the fastest lap ahead of Pagenaud and Gabby Chaves .

run

At the start, Castroneves kept the lead. Dixon passed Montoya into second position. A yellow phase began in the fifth lap, as there were debris in the ninth corner. It remained the only caution phase after there had been five and six caution phases in the previous two races. In the caution phase, some drivers pitted on lap seven. This left Luca Filippi stand in the pit lane entrance. When trying to pass him, Power stalled his engine. Both drivers continued, but dropped out of the lead lap.

In the 29th round, Castroneves pitted and briefly gave the lead to Hawksworth. After his stop, Castroneves had to wait briefly for Kanaan, who turned into the pits before him, so that his stop was delayed a little. As a result, he fell behind Dixon, who took the lead after a Hawksworth pit stop and then safely led the race. In the 53rd lap he pitted and temporarily lost the lead to Castroneves and Bourdais. For third place, a duel between the Penske drivers Montoya and Pagenaud developed in the final phase, which enabled Kanaan and Bourdais to catch up. There was no change in position in this group.

Thus Dixon achieved his first win of the season before Castroneves. It was Dixon's first win at Long Beach. With his 36th IndyCar victory, he and Bobby Unser immediately moved to fifth place on the all-time best list. In addition, after Unser, Emerson Fittipaldi and Castroneves, Dixon became the fourth IndyCar driver to win at least one IndyCar race in eleven consecutive years. Montoya was third ahead of Pagenaud, Kanaan, Bourdais and Newgarden. Marco Andretti was the best Honda rider in eighth place. Muñoz and Saavedra completed the top 10. At the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach 2015, the first 19 drivers crossed the finish line in the lead lap. In addition, another new record was set with 23 drivers who reached the finish.

In the drivers' championship, Montoya stayed ahead of Castroneves. Canaan took third place.

Registration list

All teams and drivers used the Dallara DW12 chassis and Firestone tires .

team	No.	driver	Aero kit / engine
Verizon Team Penske	01	Will power	Chevrolet
Team Penske	02	Juan Pablo Montoya
	03	Helio Castroneves
	22nd	Simon Pagenaud
KV Racing Technology	04th	Stefano Coletti	Chevrolet
Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	05	James Hinchcliffe	Honda
	07th	James Jakes
Chip Ganassi Racing Teams	08th	Sebastián Saavedra	Chevrolet
	09	Scott Dixon
	10	Tony Kanaan
	83	Charlie Kimball
KVSH Racing	11	Sébastien Bourdais	Chevrolet
AJ Foyt Enterprises	14th	Takuma Satō	Honda
	41	Jack Hawksworth
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	15th	Graham Rahal	Honda
Dale Coyne Racing	18th	Rocky moran jr.	Honda
		Conor Daly
	19th	Francesco Dracone
CFH Racing	20th	Luca Filippi	Chevrolet
	67	Josef Newgarden
Andretti Autosport	26th	Carlos Muñoz	Honda
	27	Marco Andretti
	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay
BHA with Curb Agajanian	98	Gabby Chaves	Honda

Source:

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} Rocky Moran Jr. drove the vehicle in the first two training sessions. Daly then took over the cockpit for the rest of the race weekend.

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	team	vehicle	Group 1	Group 2	Top 12	FF6	begin
01	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 06.9672	-	1: 06.8702	1: 06.6294	01
02	Juan Pablo Montoya	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 06.8304	1: 06.9419	1: 06.6587	02
03	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 06.9742	-	1: 06.9819	1: 06.7870	03
04th	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Honda	1: 06.8979	-	1: 07.0307	1: 07.0473	04th
05	Simon Pagenaud	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 07.8440	1: 06.7894	1: 07.1433	05
06th	Josef Newgarden	CFH Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 07.9507	1: 06.8083	1: 07.1716	06th
07th	Tony Kanaan	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 06.7442	-	1: 07.1090	-	07th
08th	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 07.1896	-	1: 07.1290	-	08th
09	Sébastien Bourdais	KVSH Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 08.5265	1: 07.2411	-	09
10	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 08.5426	1: 07.3161	-	10
11	Sebastián Saavedra	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 07.6781	1: 07.3924	-	11
12	Carlos Muñoz	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Honda	1: 07.1190	-	1: 07.4049	-	12
13	James Hinchcliffe	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	1: 07.3976	-	-	-	13
14th	Luca Filippi	CFH Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 08.6104	-	-	14th
15th	Charlie Kimball	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams	Dallara - Chevrolet	1: 07.4217	-	-	-	15th
16	Jack Hawksworth	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 08.6276	-	-	16
17th	Gabby Chaves	BHA with Curb Agajanian	Dallara - Honda	1: 07.4653	-	-	-	17th
18th	Will power	Verizon Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 08.8348	-	-	18th
19th	James Jakes	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	1: 07.7702	-	-	-	19th
20th	Takuma Satō	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 08.8732	-	-	20th
21st	Conor Daly	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	1: 08.7825	-	-	-	21st
22nd	Francesco Dracone	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	-	1: 09.8815	-	-	22nd
23	Stefano Coletti	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	-	1: 10.4644	-	-	23

Swell:

run

Item	driver	team	vehicle	Round	time	begin	Leadership laps
01	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams	Dallara - Chevrolet	80	1: 37: 35.2353	03	44
02	Helio Castroneves	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	80	+ 2.2221	01	31
03	Juan Pablo Montoya	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	80	+ 13.4862	02	00
04th	Simon Pagenaud	Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	80	+ 13.7382	05	00
05	Tony Kanaan	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams	Dallara - Chevrolet	80	+ 14.6249	07th	00
06th	Sébastien Bourdais	KVSH Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	80	+ 15.0829	09	01
07th	Josef Newgarden	CFH Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	80	+ 18.8398	06th	00
08th	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Honda	80	+ 33.9476	10	00
09	Carlos Muñoz	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Honda	80	+ 34.9599	12	00
10	Sebastián Saavedra	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams	Dallara - Chevrolet	80	+ 35.5359	11	00
11	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Dallara - Honda	80	+ 37.4628	08th	00
12	James Hinchcliffe	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	80	+ 38.7713	13	00
13	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Dallara - Honda	80	+ 40.3347	04th	00
14th	Jack Hawksworth	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara - Honda	80	+ 41.2744	16	04th
15th	Charlie Kimball	Chip Ganassi Racing Teams	Dallara - Chevrolet	80	+ 44.3872	15th	00
16	Gabby Chaves	BHA with Curb Agajanian	Dallara - Honda	80	+ 46.6589	17th	00
17th	Conor Daly	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	80	+ 50.0574	21st	00
18th	Takuma Satō	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Dallara - Honda	80	+ 53.8043	20th	00
19th	James Jakes	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Dallara - Honda	80	+1: 39.7966	19th	00
20th	Will power	Verizon Team Penske	Dallara - Chevrolet	79	+ 1 lap	18th	00
21st	Francesco Dracone	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara - Honda	78	+ 2 rounds	22nd	00
22nd	Luca Filippi	CFH Racing	Dallara - Chevrolet	77	+ 3 rounds	14th	00
23	Stefano Coletti	KV Racing Technology	Dallara - Chevrolet	69	+ 11 rounds	23	00

Swell:

Guide sections

section	Round	driver
1	1-29	Helio Castroneves
2	30-33	Jack Hawksworth
3	34-53	Scott Dixon
4th	54-55	Helio Castroneves
5	56	Sébastien Bourdais
6th	57-80	Scott Dixon

Swell:

Yellow phases

No.	Duration	Round	Reason for yellow phase
1	5-8	4th	Debris in curve 9

Swell:

Score after the race

Driver ranking

The allocation of points is explained here .

Item driver Points 01.  Juan Pablo Montoya 119 02.  Helio Castroneves 116 03.  Tony Kanaan 93 04th  Scott Dixon 87 05.  James Hinchcliffe 83 06th  Will power 80 07th  Simon Pagenaud 73 08th.  Sébastien Bourdais 66 09.  Josef Newgarden 66

Item driver Points 10.  Graham Rahal 62 11.  Marco Andretti 61 12.  Carlos Muñoz 56 13.  James Jakes 54 14th  Ryan Hunter-Reay 51 15th  Luca Filippi 50 16.  Jack Hawksworth 48 17th  Simona de Silvestro 44 18th  Gabby Chaves 42

Item driver Points 19th  Charlie Kimball 40 20th  Takuma Satō 37 21st  Stefano Coletti 30th 22nd  Say Karam 23 23.  Francesco Dracone 23 24.  Sebastián Saavedra 20th 25th  Carlos Huertas 20th 26th  Conor Daly 13

Web links

• Official website of the IndyCar Series

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Saavedra and Karam to share No. 8 Ganassi seat. indycar.com, April 14, 2015, accessed September 23, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Dave Lewandowski: Rocky Moran Jr. to make Verizon IndyCar Series debut in Dale Coyne Racing Honda this weekend. indycar.com, April 17, 2015, accessed September 23, 2015 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Arni Sribhen: Conor Daly replaces injured Rocky Moran Jr. in No. 18 Dale Coyne Racing Honda. indycar.com, April 18, 2015, accessed September 23, 2015 . 
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22. ↑ ^{a b} Dave Lewandowski: Dixon wins at Long Beach for 36th career victory. indycar.com, April 19, 2015, accessed December 5, 2015 . 
23. ↑ ^{a b} Mark Glendenning: IndyCar Long Beach: Scott Dixon defeats Penske drivers to win. autosport.com, April 19, 2015, accessed December 5, 2015 . 
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26. ↑ Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach - Official Starting Line Up. (PDF) indycar.com, April 19, 2015, accessed May 22, 2015 . 
27. ↑ ^{a b c} “OFFICIAL BOX SCORE - Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach”. (PDF) indycar.com, April 19, 2015, accessed on September 23, 2015 . 
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