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Official Box Score OFFICIAL BOX SCORE IZOD IndyCar Series Honda Grand Prix of St Petersburg March 27, 2011 Laps FP SP Car Driver Car Name Comp Running/Reason Out Pts Total Pts Standings 1 2 10 Dario Franchitti Target Chip Ganassi Racing 100 Running 52 52 1 2 1 12 Will Power Verizon Team Penske 100 Running 41 41 2 3 8 82 Tony Kanaan GEICO - KV Racing Technology - Lotus 100 Running 35 35 3 4 17 78 Simona de Silvestro Nuclear Clean Air Energy/HVM Racing 100 Running 32 32 4 5 11 5 Takuma Sato KV Racing Technology - Lotus 100 Running 30 30 5 6 10 77 Alex Tagliani Bowers & Wilkins/Sam Schmidt Motoersports 100 Running 28 28 6 7 16 17 Raphael Matos Automatic Fire Sprinklers, Inc. 100 Running 26 26 7 8 13 14 Vitor Meira ABC Supply Co./A.J. Foyt Racing 100 Running 24 24 8 9 15 02 Oriol Servia Telemundo Newman/Haas Racing 100 Running 22 22 9 10 6 22 Justin Wilson TransSystems/Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 100 Running 20 20 10 11 24 4 JR Hildebrand (R) National Guard Panther Racing 100 Running 19 19 11 12 19 7 Danica Patrick Team GoDaddy 100 Running 18 18 12 13 25 34 Sebastian Saavedra (R) Conquest Racing 98 Running 17 17 13 14 20 24 Ana Beatriz (R) Ipiranga/Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 98 Running 16 16 14 15 22 18 James Jakes (R) Acorn Stairlifts 97 Running 15 15 15 16 3 9 Scott Dixon Target Chip Ganassi Racing 96 Running 14 14 16 17 12 38 Graham Rahal Service Central 96 Running 13 13 17 18 5 6 Ryan Briscoe IZOD Team Penske 95 Running 12 12 18 19 21 59 EJ Viso PDVSA - KV Racing Technology - Lotus 94 Running 12 12 19 20 9 3 Helio Castroneves guidepoint systems Team Penske 85 Running 12 12 20 21 14 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay Team DHL/Sun Drop Citrus Soda 58 Handling 12 12 21 22 23 83 Charlie Kimball (R) Levemir and NovoLog Flex Pen 38 Contact 12 12 22 23 4 27 Mike Conway Team GoDaddy.com 1 Contact 12 12 23 24 7 26 Marco Andretti Team Venom Energy 0 Contact 12 12 24 25 18 19 Sebastien Bourdais Boy Scouts of America 0 Did Not Start 5 5 25 Time of Race: 02:00:59.6886 Avg Speed: 89.260 Margin of Victory: 7.1612 seconds Lead Changes: 3 among 2 drivers Cautions: 5 for 13 laps Fastest Lap: 101.459 mph ( 63.8683 sec) on lap 74 by 3 - Helio Castroneves Fastest Leader Lap: 101.186 mph ( 64.0405 sec) on lap 22 by 10 - Dario Franchitti Peak Performance Pole Award: #12 Will Power Bonus Awards: Dario Franchitti ($35,000), Will Power ($25,000), Tony Kanaan ($20,000), Simona De Silvestro ($15,000), Takuma Sato ($10,000) Legend: R = Rookie All Cars use Dallara Chassis, Firestone Tires, and Honda Engines Lap Leaders: Lap Leader Summary: Caution Flags: Laps Car # Driver Car Driver Times Laps No Duration Total Reason for Caution 1-4 12 Power, Will 10 Franchitti, Dario 2 94 1 1 to 3 3 Contact: Cars 02, 3, 6, 9, 26, & 27 in Turn 1 5-70 10 Franchitti, Dario 12 Power, Will 2 6 2 7 to 9 3 Spin: Car 59 in Turn 13 71 12 Power, Will 3 12 to 12 1 Debris: Turn 11 73-100 10 Franchitti, Dario 4 14 to 15 2 Contact: Car 34 in Turn 1 5 39 to 42 4 Contact: Car 83 in Turn 3 Information provided by Indy Racing Information System - Copyright Indy Racing League, LLC 2011 .
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