Thursday, May 14, 2015

GP of Indy recap

 Josef crashed in the first turn in the first lap at the GP of Indy.  
Nothing else matters. 

That would have been the only thing the GP of Indy race recap would have said if our little sister Alex was writing it.

Thankfully, we wrote it. This is our version.



2015 Marked the second running of the GP of Indianapolis. Will Power was the winner after starting on the pole and leading 65 of the 82 laps. 
 Graham Rahal came in a strong second (1.502 seconds behind)
Juan Montoya finished in 3rd.



 
The top 10 Finishers

1.  Will Power:  Started from pole for the 38th time and collected his 25th Indycar win


2.  Graham Rahal:  His second 2nd place finish in a row pushed him to 5th in points


3.  Juan Pablo Montoya: Juan's third podium finish this season

4. Sebastien Bourdais:  His fourth Top Ten in the five races this season
 
5. Charlie Kimball:  He matched his finish of fifth from the 2014 Indy GP

6. Helio Castroneves:  Overcame the Turn 1 incident he triggered to finish strong
7. Tony Kanaan:  A fourth Top Six this season has Tony 6th in the season points standings

8. Stefano Coletti:  The first Top Ten for this rookie driver from Italy


9. Takuma Sato: Started way back in 22nd


10. Scott Dixon:  Ran a great race despite being damaged in the first turn melee

Top Ten included..
* Three Penske Drivers & Three Ganassi Drivers
* Drivers from 5 different teams
 * Drivers from 8 different countries
* 8 Chevys and 2 Hondas (The top ten qualifiers were all Chevys)

* 1 rookie (Stefano Coletti)


Other:

*  Will Power became the 5th different winner in 5 races this season

*  There was only 1 caution. The 5th race this season that had 2 or fewer cautions

*  This win was the 2nd win for Team Penske this season ( The first was Montoya in St. Pete)

There were 11 lead changes among 6 different drivers

*  Average Race Speed: 116.842 MPH

*  Fastest Lap 123.911 MPH (James Hinchcliffe)


Shout Out To...
JR Hildebrand had a great run going for CFH Racing in his first Indycar race in a year.  JR ran 6th most of the day before a small issue caused him to pit late in the race dropping him to 21st. 

 

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