Car 12 Will Power, Dallara-Chevy won Chevrolet Indy Dual in Detroit presented by Quicken Loans Dual 1 where he started in 16th place. The pressure was on Will Power to hold off 2nd place Car 15 Graham Rahal, Dallara-Honda to be able to win the race for his team owner Roger Penske who was also the race weekend race promoter. 3rd place Car 10 Tony Kanaan, Dallara-Chevy who started in 8th place.
4th Place was (19) Car 19 Justin Wilson, Dallara-Honda in 19th place, 5th place was Car 3 Helio Castroneves, Dallara-Chevy who started on pole, 6th Place was Car 27 James Hinchcliffe, Dallara-Honda who started in 2nd place, 7th place was Car 34 Carlos Munoz, Dallara-Honda who started in 11th place. 8th place Car 18 Carlos Huertas, Dallara-Honda who started in 12th place. 9th place was (20) Car 83 Charlie Kimball, Dallara-Chevy who started in 20th place & lastly in the Top 10 Car 25 Marco Andretti, Dallara-Honda in 10th place who started in 18 place.
It was an exciting race with 4 Cautions for 17 laps & 10 Lead changes among 7 drivers with the most intense part was from the last restart with laps 10 laps to go. The race was a close finish with Margin of victory: 0.3308 as Graham Rahal was trying his best to get the win but it was a better result than the last race when was last place.
Post Race quotes:
Car 12 Will Power, Dallara-Chevy said “Just a great job by the team, putting me in a position to use our speed. That was hard work, very hard work. I’m very exhausted. It’s a massive win. It’s a massive win for me, massive win for the team and especially for Roger (Penske) and for Chevy. They’ve been trying to win here for a long time and we finally did it with a Honda trying to charge by.” (About the late challenge from Graham Rahal): “(Rahal) was really pushing me at the end and it was a great victory for Roger, the (crew) guys and Verizon.”
Car 15 Graham Rahal, Dallara-Honda said “For us this entire National Guard team to get a result like this, you don’t know what it means. We’ve been fighting awfully hard to just finish where we have been finishing and so to finally get a result like this it means more than words. As we look forward to tomorrow, I think we can do one better. I really do. And we’ve really learned a lot today and a lot that is going to help us tomorrow.” (About the end of the race) “I was just trying to give him a run for his money. You know, I was just trying to get close enough where I could challenge him. We were pretty close. Didn’t quite get there but I’m very proud of this team. The car was phenomenal. We’re going to tweak it a little bit for tomorrow and we’ll be better…I thought if I can just force him into a little mistake, this is mine. And that’s all I was trying to do.”
Car 10 Tony Kanaan, Dallara-Chevy said “The team did a great job. I’ve got to thank the Energizer Target guys. But you can’t be happy finishing third. We want to win so we’re working towards that. It was a great race for us. We got great restarts, great pit stops, plus the strategy played out in our favor big time. So we have tonight to work on it and tomorrow I want to put that thing in P1. That’s for sure. You know the Energizer car has a pretty good history of winning with Dixon and Dario, so I’ve got to keep it up.”
Car 27 James Hinchcliffe, Dallara-Honda said “The car was great. The guys did an awesome job in the pit stops – we just didn’t have the cautions fall our way. At the end of the day, Helio (Castroneves) and I were on the same strategy. In my mind, that was the race for the win. If it had gone green, or if the yellows had fallen a bit differently, that was the guy we were racing. We definitely had a top three car….we just didn’t have the luck of the yellows to capitalize on it. Again, we take comfort in the fact that the car was quick. The United Fiber & Data guys did a great job in the stops, and we’ll try to come back stronger tomorrow.”
VERIZON INDYCAR SERIES POINT STANDINGS:
1 Ryan Hunter-Reay 288
2 Will Power 285
3 Helio Castroneves 254
4 Simon Pagenaud 219
5 Marco Andretti 213
6 Carlos Munoz (R) 186
7 Juan Pablo Montoya 170
8 Sebastien Bourdais 160
9 Justin Wilson 155
10 Scott Dixon 152
Verizon IndyCar Series Chevrolet Indy Dual in Detroit presented by Quicken Loans
DETROIT – Results Saturday of the Chevrolet Indy Dual in Detroit presented by Quicken Loans Verizon IndyCar Series event on the 2.35-mile Detroit Belle Isle
Position, Satrting Position in parentheses, Car #, Driver, Chassis-engine, Laps, Status
1. (16) Car 12 Will Power, Dallara-Chevy, 70, Running
2. (9) Car 15 Graham Rahal, Dallara-Honda, 70, Running
3. (8) Car 10 Tony Kanaan, Dallara-Chevy, 70, Running
4. (19) Car 19 Justin Wilson, Dallara-Honda, 70, Running
5. (1) Car 3 Helio Castroneves, Dallara-Chevy, 70, Running
6. (2) Car 27 James Hinchcliffe, Dallara-Honda, 70, Running
7. (11) Car 34 Carlos Munoz, Dallara-Honda, 70, Running
8. (12) Car 18 Carlos Huertas, Dallara-Honda, 70, Running
9. (20) Car 83 Charlie Kimball, Dallara-Chevy, 70, Running
10. (18) Car 25 Marco Andretti, Dallara-Honda, 70, Running
11. (10) Car 9 Scott Dixon, Dallara-Chevy, 70, Running
12. (6) Car 2 Juan Pablo Montoya, Dallara-Chevy, 70, Running
13. (7) Car 11 Sebastien Bourdais, Dallara-Chevy, 70, Running
14. (13) Car 17 Sebastian Saavedra, Dallara-Chevy, 70, Running
15. (5) Car 8 Ryan Briscoe, Dallara-Chevy, 70, Running
16. (21) Car 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay, Dallara-Honda, 69, Running
17. (22) Car 7 Mikhail Aleshin, Dallara-Honda, 68, Running
18. (15) Car 14 Takuma Sato, Dallara-Honda, 66, Running
19. (3) Car 98 Jack Hawksworth, Dallara-Honda, 65, Running
20. (14) Car 67 Josef Newgarden, Dallara-Honda, 36, Contact
21. (4) Car 20 Mike Conway, Dallara-Chevy, 14, Contact
22. (17) Car 77 Simon Pagenaud, Dallara-Honda, 4, Contact
Race Statistics
Winners average speed: 90.138, Time of Race: 01:49:29.9323, Margin of victory: 0.3308, Cautions: 4 for 17, Lead changes: 10 among 7 drivers
Lap Leaders:
Castroneves 1 – 16, Rahal 17 – 25, Andretti 26, Power 27 – 29, Aleshin 30 – 31 Castroneves 32 – 45, Dixon 46, Power 47 – 53, Rahal 54, Briscoe 55 – 59,
Power 60 – 70
Caution Flags:
No Duration Total Reason for Caution
1. 5 to 7 3 Contact: Car 77 in Turn 4
2. 16 to 19 4 Contact: Car 20 in Turn 12
3. 37 to 43 7 Contact: Car 67 in Turn 7
4. 56 to 58 3 Contact: Cars 7 & 27 in Turn 7
Point Standings: Hunter-Reay 288, Power 285, Castroneves 254, Pagenaud 219, Andretti 213, Munoz 186, Montoya 170, Bourdais 160, Wilson 155, Dixon 152.
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