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Date: Saturday, June 15
Start Time: 4:30 p.m. ET
Site: The Milwaukee Mile -- West Allis, Wis.
Track: 1-mile oval
Laps: 250
Miles: 250
Capacity: nearly 40,000 grandstand seats
Total purse:
Payouts:
Year: 9th (IndyCar sanctioned race)
On TV: NBC Sports Network
Announcers:
On Radio: IMS Radio Network/SIRIUS XM Satellite
Race record: Scott Dixon, 2009 (138.784 mph)
Qualifying record: Helio Castroneves, 2006 (172.477 mph)
2012 Finish
Defending champion: Ryan Hunter-Reay
Runner up: Tony Kanaan
Pole winner: Dario Franchitti (168.737 mph)
Top 10:
1. Ryan Hunter-Reay (Start: 2)
2. Tony Kanaan (6)
3. James Hinchcliffe (8)
4. Oriol Servia (20)
5. E.J. Viso (5)
6. Helio Castroneves (4)
7. Alex Tagliani (13)
8. Ed Carpenter (22)
9. Graham Rahal (11)
10. Rubens Barrichello (3)
Average speed: 122.020 mph
Time of race: 1 hr., 52 mins., 17.8119 secs.
Margin of victory: 5.1029 secs.
Caution flags: 5 for 51 laps
Lead changes: 5 among 5 drivers
Past winners
2012 , Dallara-Chevrolet, 122.020 mph
2011 Dario Franchitti, Dallara-Honda, 117.390 mph
2010 , , ot held
2009 Scott Dixon, Dallara-Honda, 138.784 mph
2008 Ryan Briscoe, Dallara-Honda, 133.428 mph
2007 Tony Kanaan, Dallara-Honda, 127.220 mph
2006 Tony Kanaan, Dallara-Honda, 133.513 mph
2005 Sam Hornish Jr, Dallara-Toyota, 122.733 mph
2004 Dario Franchitti, Dallara-Honda, 128.272 mph
Last race
Race: Firestone 550 (June 8)
Site: Texas Motor Speedway -- Fort Worth, Texas
Miles: 342 (550 kilometers)
Laps: 228
Finish line order: Helio Castroneves, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Tony Kanaan, Ed Carpenter, Marco Andretti
Time of Race: 1 hr., 52 mins., 17.4594 secs.
Average speed: 177.257 mph
Margin of victory: 4.6919 secs.
Caution flags: 3 for 27 laps
Lead changes: 4 among 4 drivers
Lap leaders: Marco Andretti 1-53; Will Power 54-57; Ryan Hunter-Reay 58-92; Marco Andretti 1-53; Will Power 54-57; Ryan Hunter-Reay 58-92; Andretti 93-96; Helio Castroneves 97-228.
Entry list
#1 * Ryan Hunter-Reay (Ft. Lauderdale, FL DHL/Andretti Autosport
#3 Helio Castroneves (Sao Paulo, Brazil AAA Insurance/Team Penske
#4 Ryan Briscoe (Sydney, Australia) National Guard/Panther Racing
#5 E.J. Viso (Caracas, Venezuela) Venezuela/Andretti Autosport/HVM
#6 Sebastian Saavedra (Bogota, Colombia Dragon Racing
#7 Sebastien Bourdais (Le Mans, France) Dragon Racing
#9 Scott Dixon (Auckland, New Zealand) Target/Chip Ganassi Racing
#10 Dario Franchitti (Edinburgh,Scotland Belkin/Chip Ganassi Racing
#11 Tony Kanaan (Salvador, Brazil) KV Racing Technology
#12 Will Power (Toowoomba, Australia) Verizon/Team Penske
#14 Takuma Sato (Tokyo, Japan) ABC Supply/A.J. Foyt Racing
#15 Graham Rahal (New Albany, OH) Midas/Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
#16 James Jakes (Leeds, England) Acorn Stairlifts/RLL Racing
#19 Justin Wilson (Sheffield, England) Dale Coyne Racing
#20 Ed Carpenter (Indianapolis, IN) Fuzzy's Vodka/Ed Carpenter Racing
#25 Marco Andretti (Nazareth, PA) RC Cola/Andretti Autosport
#27 James Hinchcliffe (Toronto, Canada) GoDaddy.com/Andretti Autosport
#55 Tristan Vautier (Corenc, France) Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
#67 Josef Newgarden (Hendersonville, TN) Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing
#77 Simon Pagenaud (Montmorillon, France Schmidt-Hamilton HP Motorsports
#78 Simona de Silvestro (Thun, Switzer.) Nuclear Entergy Areva/KVRT
#83 Charlie Kimball (Camarillo, CA) NovoLog FlexPen/Chip Ganassi Racing
#98 Alex Tagliani (Lachenaie, QB, Canada Barracuda Racing/Bryan Herta Autospt
Leading contenders
| Name | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Hunter-Reay | 15 | 12 | 26 | Won | |||||
| Tony Kanaan | 4 | 4 | Won | Won | 3 | 19 | 19 | 2 | |
| James Hinchcliffe | 6 | 3 | |||||||
| Helio Castroneves | 12 | 16 | 14 | 16 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 6 | |
| Ed Carpenter | 12 | 16 | 7 | 20 | 16 | 16 | 8 | ||
| Scott Dixon | 22 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 2 | Won | 7 | 11 | |
| Will Power | 14 | 4 | 12 | ||||||
| Simon Pagenaud | 13 | ||||||||
| Ryan Briscoe | 22 | 18 | Won | 2 | 11 | 14 | |||
| Marco Andretti | 5 | 15 | 21 | 7 | 13 | 15 | |||
| Dario Franchitti | Won | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | Won | 19 | ||
| Takuma Sato | 8 | 20 | |||||||
| Justin Wilson | 7 | 15 | 10 | 23 |
Notes
Hosting auto racing events since 1903, The Milwaukee Mile is the oldest operating motor speedway in the world. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway began hosting races in 1911.
This one-mile oval has 9.25 degrees of banking in all of its turns and 2.5 degrees on the straightaways. The lengths of the frontstretch and the backstretch are 1,265 feet.
Before it began hosting IndyCar sanctioned races in 2004, this track held open-wheel events in CART (1980-2003), USAC (1956-79) and AAA (1939-55).
Milwaukee was dropped from the IndyCar schedule in 2010 but rejoined the following year.
Since '04, Dario Franchitti and Tony Kanaan are those drivers who have scored multiple victories at Milwaukee. Franchitti won at this track in '04 and '11, and Kanaan took the checkered flag there in back-to-back years (2006-07).
Ryan Briscoe scored his maiden Indycar win at Milwaukee in June 2008. Briscoe was in his first season with Team Penske at the time. He is driving the No. 4 car for Panther Racing in this weekend's race.
Ryan Hunter-Reay won last year's race at Milwaukee. Hunter-Reay, who is the defending IndyCar champion, dominated the second half of the 225-mile event, leading the final 84 laps. It was the first of his four victories for the season. He also won a Champ Car Series race at this track in 2004, leading all 250 laps.
The next race is the June 23 Iowa Corn Indy 250 at Iowa Speedway. Hunter-Reay is the defending race winner.
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