2017 Indycar Iowa Corn 300

Iowa Corn Indy 300

Helio Castroneves broke his three year winless streak, and Team Penske finally got their first win in 10 races at the short oval in Iowa.  JR Hildebrand finished second driving the #21 car that Josef Newgarden drove to victory at Iowa last year, and three time Iowa winner Ryan Hunter-Reay rounded out the podium.

 



TOP 10

1. Helio Castroneves: The 30th victory of his Indycar career after a 54 race winless streak.
2. Jr Hildebrand: His best finish in Indycar since finishing second in the 2011 Indy 500.

3. Ryan Hunter-Reay: His fifth podium in the last 6 Iowa races.

4. Will Power: His sixth Top 5 in the last eight races.

5. Graham Rahal: His fourth Top 5 in the last 5 races has him 6th in points.

6. Josef Newgarden: His worst finish a Iowa since 2013.

7. Simon Pagenaud: His 9th Top 10 this season.

8. Scott Dixon: His 10th Top10 in 11 races.

9. Tony Kanaan: Eighth in season points.

10. James Hinchcliffe: His fifth Top 10 in 6 races at Iowa.
 

Different Teams: 6 Penske (4), Ed Carpenter Racing, Andretti, Rahal Letterman, Ganassi (2), Schmidt Peterson

Different Countries: 6  Brazil (2), USA (4), Australia, France, New Zealand, Canada

5 Chevys   5 Hondas

 

FUN FACTS

 Average Speed:  139.702 mph

Time: 1 hour 55 minutes 11 seconds

Lead Changes:  12 among 8 drivers
Helio Castroneves (217), JR Hildebrand (38), Will Power (23), Charlie Kimball (10), Marco Andretti (7), Simon Pagenaud (2), Max Chilton (2) Josef Newgarden (1) 
 

                 Fastest Lap:  177.336  by Helio Castroneves

 
Cautions 4 for 44 Laps

 

Most Improved: Ryan Hunter Reay 12 Positions

Penalties: 2
Helio Castroneves (Pit Safety Infraction)
Ed Jones (Pit Safety Infraction)

Josef Newgarden at Road America 2017

Josef finished 3rd and started 2nd
at the Indycar Kohler Grand Prix.
 

Josef ran up front all day at Road America and was the strongest of the four Penske entries, but in the end he didn't have enough to catch winner Scott Dixon. 


Laps completed:  55 of 55
Laps Led:  13
Average Speed:  123.42 mph
Finish time behind the winner:  0.5779 seconds
Pit Stops:  3

He had the fastest lap of the race at 139.664 mph.

Newgarden was fastest in the second practice session and in the top 5 in the other two practice sessions.

Loving RA. One of the best tracks in the world. @Team_Penske | @IndyCar | #CantStop

Photo ✖️ @emotiveimage pic.twitter.com/Fn0iQMlBuF

— Josef Newgarden (@josefnewgarden) June 24, 2017

Josef is now 5th in the Indycar season standings,
61 points out of first place.

post by Alexandra (age 10)

Indycar 2017 at Road America

Indycar Kohler Grand Prix at Road America

 

Scott Dixon became the 8th different winner in ten races this Indycar season as he won for the first time at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.  It was Scott Dixon's 41st win of his career which leaves him in fourth on the Indycar All Time win list, just a single win behind Michael Andretti.

The four Penske drivers dominated the weekend and wound up in second through fifth place but it was Dixon's pass of Josef Newgarden on lap 31 that made the difference.

 

 

 

 



TOP 10

1. Scott Dixon: His 5th podium in 10 races this season.

2. Josef Newgarden: His second 2nd place this year.

3. Helio Castroneves: His ninth Top 10 in ten races this season.

4. Simon Pagenaud  : His eighth Top 5 in ten races.

5. Will Power: Sixth in the season championship.

6. Charlie Kimball: His best finish of the season.

7. Ed Jones: His fourth Top 10 in his rookie Indycar season has him 10th in points.

8. Graham Rahal: His lowest finish in the last four races.

9. Max Chilton: His fourth Top 10 this season.

10. Mikhail Aleshin: His third Top 10 of the season.

Different Teams: 5  (Ganassi (3), Penske (4), Coyne, RLL, Schmidt )

Different Countries: 8 New Zealand, USA (3), Brazil, France, Australia, United Arab Emirates, Britain, Russia
4 Chevys   6 Hondas

  

FUN FACTS

 

 Average Speed:  123.431 mph

Time: 1 hour 47 minutes 18 seconds

Lead Changes:  6 among 4 drivers
Scott Dixon (24)  Helio Castroneves (17)  Josef Newgarden (13)  Charlie Kimball (1)
 

                 Fastest Lap:  139.664 on lap 52 by Josef Newgarden (2)

 Cautions 2 for 3 Laps

 

Most Improved: Mikhail Aleshin 9 positions

Penalties: 3
Rahal (blocking), Andretti (pit speed violation), Power (blocking)

Josef Newgarden Texas 2017 Indycar

Josef finished 13th and started 17th
at the Rainguard Water Sealers 600 at Texas.
 

Josef began the race strong but was sent to the back of the field with a pit speed violation penalty after his pit stop on lap 29.  He made his way back to the front and even led 6 laps, but on lap 189 Josef tried to go three wide on the outside and hit wound up in the wall.



Josef officially finished 201 of the 248 laps.
His average speed was 144.796 mph and he pitted 10 times.

In six races at Texas Motor Speedway Josef has an average finish of 14.5 and this race was his highest finish there since 2014.

He is now 7th in the Indycar season standings,
49 points out of first place.

post by Alexandra (age 9)




 

 



2017 Indycar Texas 600

 Rainguard Water Sealers 600

at Texas Motor Speedway

 
Charlie Kimball won the first Indycar pole position of his career as the series visited the Texas Motor Speedway.  Two hundred forty eight laps later, with 66 laps under caution, there were just 6 cars left on the lead lap as Will Power won his second race at Texas. It was a race of attrition as just 8 of the 22 starting cars were running at the end.

TOP 10

1. Will Power: The 31st win of his Indycar career.

2. Tony Kanaan: Was in the mix in a few crashes but managed to stay out of trouble.

3. Simon Pagenaud: Fourth Top 10 in 6 starts at Texas.

4. Graham Rahal: His 5th Top 10 of the season.

5. Gabby Chaves: His best finish ever in Indycar in Harding Racing Teams 2nd race.

6. Marco Andretti: His best finish since Fontana 2015.

7. Conor Daly: His best finish this season.

8. Max Chilton: His third Top 10 of the season.

9. Scott Dixon: Lowest finish of the season other than his crash at the Indy 500.

10. Takuma Sato:  His fourth Top 10 in a row.

Different Teams:   ( Penske, Ganassi, RLL, Harding, Andretti, A.J. Foyt)

Different Countries:  USA (4),  Australia, Japan, France, New Zealand, Brazil (2)

4 Chevys   6 Hondas

  

FUN FACTS

 

 Average Speed:  140.491 mph

Time: 2 hour 32 minutes 31 seconds

Lead Changes:  23 among 7 drivers
Power (180), Kimball (26), Vautier (15), Dixon (12), Chilton (8), Newgarden (6), Kanaan (1)

Fastest Lap:  224.594 Tony Kanaan

 Cautions 9 for 66 Laps

 

Most Improved: Gabby Chaves 15 positions

Penalties: 11 among 8 drivers
(Newgarden, Hildebrand, Hinchcliffe, Carpenter, Munoz, Jones, Kanaan, Chaves)