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Circuit: Indianapolis Motor Speedway (2.5-mile oval), Indianapolis, IN
2014 Winner: Ryan Hunter-Reay (Andretti Autosport Honda) 186.563 mph average
Weather: Mostly sunny, warm, 82 degrees F
Results:
Fn.
St.
Driver
Team
Manufacturer
Laps
Notes
1.
15.
Juan Pablo Montoya
Team Penske
Chevrolet
200
161.341 mph average
2.
2.
Will Power
Team Penske
Chevrolet
200
+0.1046 seconds
3.
14.
Charlie Kimball
Chip Ganassi Racing
Chevrolet
200
4.
1.
Scott Dixon
Chip Ganassi Racing
Chevrolet
200
Led 84 laps
5.
17.
Graham Rahal
Rahal Letterman Lanigan
Honda
200
6.
8.
Marco Andretti
Andretti Autosport
Honda
200
7.
5.
Helio Castroneves
Team Penske
Chevrolet
200
8.
10.
JR Hildebrand
Carpenter Fisher Hartman
Chevrolet
200
9.
9.
Josef Newgarden
Carpenter Fisher Hartman
Honda
200
10.
3.
Simon Pagenaud
Team Penske
Chevrolet
200
11.
7.
Sebastien Bourdais
KVSH Racing
Chevrolet
200
12.
31.
Ryan Briscoe
Schmidt Peterson
Honda
200
13.
24.
Takuma Sato
A.J. Foyt Racing
Honda
200
14.
23.
Townsend Bell
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
Chevrolet
200
15.
16.
Ryan Hunter-Reay
Andretti Autosport
Honda
200
16.
26.
Gabby Chaves-R
Bryan Herta Autosport
Honda
200
Top rookie finisher
17.
20.
Alex Tagliani
A.J. Foyt Racing
Honda
200
18.
19.
James Jakes
Schmidt Peterson
Honda
200
19.
18.
Simona de Silvestro
Andretti Autosport
Honda
200
20.
11.
Carlos Munoz
Andretti Autosport
Honda
200
Late fuel stop
21.
6.
Justin Wilson
Andretti Autosport
Honda
199
Running, late fuel stop
22.
25.
Pippa Mann
Dale Coyne Racing
Honda
197
Running
23.
27.
Sebastian Saavedra
Chip Ganassi Racing
Chevrolet
175
Did not finish – crash
24.
28.
Jack Hawksworth
A.J. Foyt Racing
Honda
175
Did not finish – crash
25.
29.
Stefano Coletti-R
KV Racing Technology
Chevrolet
175
Did not finish – crash
26.
4.
Tony Kanaan
Chip Ganassi Racing
Chevrolet
151
Did not finish – crash
27.
33.
James Davison
Dale Coyne Racing
Honda
116
Did not finish – crash
28.
32.
Tristan Vautier
Dale Coyne Racing
Honda
116
Did not finish – crash
29.
13.
Oriol Servia
Rahal Letterman Lanigan
Honda
112
Did not finish – crash
30.
12.
Ed Carpenter
Carpenter Fisher Hartman
Chevrolet
112
Did not finish – crash
31.
30.
Bryan Clauson
KV Racing Technoloty
Chevrolet
61
Did not finish – crash
32.
21.
Sage Karam
Chip Ganassi Racing
Chevrolet
0
Did not finish – crash
33.
22.
Conor Daly
Schmidt Peterson
Honda
0
Did not start – mechanical
R – Indy 500 Rookie
Rahal Finishes Fifth for Honda at Indianapolis 500
Sixth-place finish for Marco Andretti
Fuel gambles by Justin Wilson, Carlos Munoz come up short
Gabby Chaves leads rookie field
Graham Rahal and Marco Andretti led the way for Honda Sunday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, finishing fifth and sixth, respectively, in the 99th running of the Indianapolis 500.
Starting 17th, Rahal gained ground steadily throughout the first third of the 200-lap contest, reaching the top 10 on Lap 68. The Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing driver continued to battle his way forward, finally moving to fifth in the closing laps as the top Honda finisher. Starting on the third row of the grid, eighth, Andretti struggled early with handling issues, but was able to improve the car through changes at successive pit stops, then gained positions with aggressive re-starts after cautions late in the race to finish sixth.
After featuring in the first 60 laps, Justin Wilson was forced to make on unscheduled pit stop due to a vibration, going a lap down to the leaders. A strong recovery drive and a pit strategy gamble got Wilson back on the lead lap, and briefly in the lead, but he was forced to pit for fuel with just two laps remaining and finished 21st. His Andretti Autosport teammate, Carlos Munoz, also ran in the top 10, but received a drive-through penalty for speeding in pit lane mid-race. Afterwards, his team also went "off-sequence" in it's pit strategy, but like Wilson needed a final splash of fuel to make the finish, dropping him to 20th at the checkers.
Gabby Chaves skidded into one of his Bryan Herta Autosport crew during the first round of pit stops, but both he and the team recovered to finish 16th, the top rookie in the field.
Ryan Briscoe, substituting for the injured James Hinchcliffe in the #5 Schmidt Peterson Motorsports Honda, made the largest start-to-finish position gain in today's 200-lap event, finishing 12th after starting 31st. Hinchcliffe, who sustained leg and pelvis injuries when suspension failure resulted in a 125-G Turn 3 crash on Monday, continues to be treated at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, but is expected to make a full recovery.
Video recaps from this month's Honda racing activities at Indianapolis, including the Grand Prix of Indianapolis road race and today's 99th running of the Indianapolis 500, are being posted on the "Honda Racing/HPD" YouTube channel. Produced by the Carolinas Production Group, the video packages can be found in the 2015 HPD Trackside Video Playlist at: https://www.youtube.com/HondaRacingHPDTV.
IndyCar Series teams and drivers now prepare for a hectic schedule of four races over the next three weeks, starting with next weekend's "Dual at Detroit" May 30-31, a double-header event with races both Saturday and Sunday on the Belle Isle street circuit in Michigan.
Verizon IndyCar Series Drivers' Championship (after 6 of 16 rounds):
1. Juan Pablo Montoya
272 points (2 wins)
6. Joseph Newgarden
173 (1 win)
2. Will Power
247 (1 win)
7. Sebastien Bourdais
171
3. Scott Dixon
212 (1 win)
8. Charlie Kimball
160
4. Helio Castroneves
206
9. Marco Andretti
151
5. Graham Rahal
204
10. Tony Kanaan
147
Manufacturers' Championship:
1. Chevrolet
586 (5 wins)
2. Honda
573 (1 win)
Graham Rahal (#15 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Honda) started 17th, finished 5th at the Indianapolis 500: "I'm proud of this team. We pushed as hard as we could. I keep saying to the guys that the biggest thing is to keep coming home in the points. If we can be the top finishing Honda and gain some points, then we've had a successful day. Obviously the three guys we are trying to keep up with in the championship all finished ahead of us, but still I feel very good about it. I'm very proud this organization for turning our results around. Coming off the last two years here, I can't tell you how good this feels. With 15 laps to go, to have to charge up from ninth was pretty tricky. Overall, I thought the racing was pretty good."
Art St. Cyr (president, Honda Performance Development) on today's Indianapolis 500: "Today's race clearly demonstrated the job we have ahead of us. But we gained a lot of information during the month here, and now have definitive goals we need to achieve in order to return Honda to the front of the field. Congratulations to Graham [Rahal] and Marco [Andretti], who once again did a great job for us, fighting hard and running competitively throughout the 200 laps."