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Date: Sunday, July 7
Start Time: 12:15 p.m. ET
Site: Pocono Raceway -- Long Pond, Pa.
Track: 2.5-mile tri-oval
Laps: 160
Miles: 400
Capacity: 76,812 (Grandstand Seating)
Total purse:
Payouts:
Year: 1st (IndyCar sanctioned)
On TV: ABC
Announcers:
On Radio: IMS Radio Network/SIRIUS XM Satellite
Race record:
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Defending champion:
Runner up:
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Top 10:
Average speed:
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Past winners
Last race
Race: Iowa Corn Indy 250 (June 23)
Site: Iowa Speedway -- Newton, Iowa
Miles: 218.75
Laps: 250
Finish line order: James Hinchcliffe, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Tony Kanaan, Ed Carpenter, Graham Rahal
Time of Race: 1 hr., 30 mins., 16.0266 secs.
Average speed: 148.559 mph
Margin of victory: 1.5009 secs.
Caution flags: 3 for 29 laps
Lead changes: 7 among 4 drivers
Lap leaders: Will Power - pole; James Hinchcliffe 1-118; Justin Wilson Will Power - pole; James Hinchcliffe 1-118; Justin Wilson 119-120; Hinchcliffe 121-159; Graham Rahal 160; Hinchcliffe 161-195; Ed Carpenter 196-213; Wilson 214-216; Hinchcliffe 217-250.
Entry list
#1 Ryan Hunter-Reay (Ft. Lauderdale, FL DHL/Andretti Autosport
#3 Helio Castroneves (Sao Paulo, Brazil Hitachi/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 Energizer/Chip Ganassi Racing
#11 Tony Kanaan (Salvador, Brazil) Sunoco Turbo/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 To Be Announced 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
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Notes
Pocono has 14 degrees of banking in turn 1, 8 degrees in turn 2 and 6 degrees in turn 3. The length of the shortstretch is 1,780 feet, and the backstretch is 3,055 feet. The frontstretch measures 3,740 feet.
This will be the first INDYCAR-sanctioned race at Pocono. USAC competed at this racetrack once each year from 1971-81, followed by CART from 1982-89. No driver entered in this weekend's race has competed in a previous open-wheel event at Pocono, but Dario Franchitti did compete in a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race there in 2008.
Past winners in open-wheel races (CART or USAC) at Pocono are: Mark Donohue (1971), Joe Leonard (1972), A.J. Foyt (1973, 1975, 1979 and 1981), Johnny Rutherford (1974), Al Unser (1976 and 1978), Tom Sneva (1977), Bobby Unser (1980), Rick Mears (1982, 1985, 1987), Teo Fabi (1983), Danny Sullivan (1984 and 1989), Mario Andretti (1986) and Bobby Rahal (1988).
Team Penske has won seven times at Pocono (Mark Donohue-1971; Tom Sneva-1977; Bobby Unser-1980; Rick Mears-1982, 85, 87 and Danny Sullivan-1989).
A.J. Foyt Racing competed in every open-wheel race at Pocono from 1971-89. Team owner A.J. Foyt won at this track four times (1973, '75, '79 and '81) and earned two poles (1977 and '79).
Pocono is the second of three races in this year's "Triple Crown" bonus program for IndyCar. Any driver who wins at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (May 26), Pocono (July 7) and the season-finale at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif. (Oct. 19) will collect a $1 million bonus. Tony Kanaan won the Indianapolis 500. If Kanaan scores the victory at Pocono, he will be awarded $250,000.
The next IndyCar events are the Honda Indy Toronto (doubleheader weekend). Race 1 on the streets of Toronto is scheduled for July 12, and race 2 is slated for July 13. Ryan Hunter-Reay won last year's event there.
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