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Date: Sunday, June 23
Start Time: 3 p.m. ET
Site: Iowa Speedway -- Newton, Iowa
Track: 0.875-mile oval
Laps: 250
Miles: 218.75
Capacity: 30,000 (Grandstand Seating)
Total purse:
Payouts:
Year: 7th
On TV: ABC
Announcers:
On Radio: IMS Radio Network/SIRIUS XM Satellite
Race record: Dan Wheldon, 2008 (136.007 mph)
Qualifying record: Scott Dixon, 2007 (182.360 mph)
2012 Finish
Defending champion: Ryan Hunter-Reay
Runner up: Marco Andretti
Pole winner: Dario Franchitti (Winner of Heat Race 3)
Top 10:
1. Ryan Hunter-Reay (Start: 7)
2. Marco Andretti (3)
3. Tony Kanaan (19)
4. Scott Dixon (8)
5. Simon Pagenaud (25)
6. Helio Castroneves (2)
7. Rubens Barrichello (11)
8. Ed Carpenter (21)
9. Graham Rahal (20)
10. Justin Wilson (13)
Average speed: 129.371 mph
Time of race: 1 hr., 43 mins. 39.3031 secs.
Margin of victory: Under Caution
Caution flags: 6 for 63 laps
Lead changes: 10 among 8 drivers
Past winners
2012 Ryan Hunter-Reay, Dallara-Honda, 129.371 mph
2011 Marco Andretti, Dallara-Honda, 118.671 mph
2010 Tony Kanaan, Dallara-Honda, 131.205 mph
2009 Dario Franchitti, Dallara-Honda, 134.371 mph
2008 Dan Wheldon, Dallara-Honda, 136.007 mph
2007 Dario Franchitti, Dallara-Honda, 123.896 mph
Last race
Race: Milwaukee IndyFest
Site: The Milwaukee Mile -- West Allis, Wis.
Miles: 250
Laps: 250
Finish line order: Ryan Hunter-Reay, Helio Castroneves, Will Power, E.J. Viso, James Hinchcliffe
Time of Race: 1 hr., 51 mins., 15.2962 secs.
Average speed: 136.848 mph
Margin of victory: 4.8059 secs.
Caution flags: 4 for 29 laps
Lead changes: 11 among 6 drivers
Lap leaders: Marco Andretti 1-61; Ryan Hunter-Reay 62-66; Will Power 67-68; Marco Andretti 1-61; Ryan Hunter-Reay 62-66; Will Power 67-68; Takuma Sato 69-90; Justin Wilson 91; E.J. Viso 92-99; Sato 100-156; Hunter-Reay 157-163; Viso 164-165; Power 166-167; Sato 168-197; Hunter-Reay 198-250.
Entry list
#1 * Ryan Hunter-Reay (Ft. Lauderdale, FL DHL/Andretti Autosport
#3 Helio Castroneves (Sao Paulo, Brazil Hitachi/Team Penske
#4 Oriol Servia (Pals, Spain) 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 Clorox/Chip Ganassi Racing
#11 Tony Kanaan (Salvador, Brazil) Sunoco/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
#18 Ana Beatriz (Sao Paul, Brazil) Dale Coyne 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 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Hunter-Reay | 8 | 19 | 8 | 8 | Won | |
| Marco Andretti | 2 | 3 | 12 | 15 | Won | 2 |
| Tony Kanaan | 16 | 18 | 14 | Won | 2 | 3 |
| Scott Dixon | 10 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4 |
| Simon Pagenaud | 5 | |||||
| Helio Castroneves | 8 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 6 |
| Takuma Sato | 19 | 20 | 12 | |||
| James Hinchcliffe | 9 | 17 | ||||
| Will Power | 9 | 5 | 21 | 23 | ||
| Dario Franchitti | Won | Won | 18 | 5 | 25 |
Notes
Built in 2006, Iowa Speedway has progressive banking from 12-14 degrees in all of its turns. There are 10 degrees of banking on the frontstretch and four degrees on the backstretch. The length of the frontstretch is 1,075 feet, and the backstretch measures 869 feet.
This will be the seventh time IndyCar has competed at Iowa Speedway. Past winners entered in this race are: Ryan Hunter-Reay (2012), Marco Andretti (2011), Tony Kanaan (2010) and Dario Franchitti (2007 and '09).
Andretti Autosport has won four of the six races at Iowa, including the last three (Kanaan 2010, Andretti 2011 and Hunter-Reay 2012). Chip Ganassi Racing has two wins (Dan Wheldon 2008 and Franchitti 2009). Franchitti's victory in 2007 came with Andretti Green Racing. Team Penske has never won at Iowa Speedway, but Penske has claimed two poles at this track, most recently with Will Power in 2010.
No driver has won an IndyCar race from the pole at Iowa.
Four drivers have competed in all six races at Iowa - Andretti, Castroneves, Dixon and Kanaan.
Franchitti and Hunter-Reay are those drivers who won at Iowa and went on to capture the IndyCar championship in the same season. Franchitti did it twice (2007 and '09), and Hunter-Reay accomplished the feat last year.
For the second year in a row, heat races will determine the starting field for the 250-lap event at Iowa.
The field will be decided through three 50-lap heat races, held on Saturday evening. The lineups for each of the heat races will be set by single-car, single-lap qualifying.
Race 1 will consist of the even-numbered positions, starting with position 8 from single-car qualifying. The results of Race 1 shall determine the even- numbered positions in the starting field, starting with position 12. The top-two finishers will transfer to Race 3 and start in positions 8 and 10.
Race 2 will consist of the odd-numbered positions, starting with position 7 from single-car qualifying. The results of Race 2 shall determine the odd- numbered positions in the starting field, starting with position 11. The top- two finishers will transfer to Race 3 and start in positions 7 and 9.
Race 3 will consist of positions 1 through 6 from single-car qualifying, plus the first-and-second-place finishers from Races 1 and 2. The finishing order will determine the top-10 starting positions. The winner of Race 3 earns the pole.
The next IndyCar race is the inaugural running of the Pocono IndyCar 400 at Pocono Raceway on July 7.
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