A Century of Indy 500 Racing
A century of Indy 500 racing STARTING GRID Car number, driver, make and average The field for the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 – the most prestigious qualification speed: race on the IndyCar circuit – consists of 33 starters aligned in a starting grid of eleven rows of three cars apiece. James Hinchcliffe, a year removed from CAR DRIVER MPH a life-threatening crash in Indy 500 practice, will start this year’s race from 5 1. James Hinchcliffe, Honda 230.760 the pole position. INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY 21 2. Josef Newgarden, Chevrolet 230.700 May 29 • Noon (EDT) • ABC ROW 1 28 3. Ryan Hunter-Reay, Honda 230.648
TRACK: 2.5-mile oval, 9 degrees, Turn 2 29 4. Townsend Bell, Honda 230.481 12 minutes banking in turns Turn 3 26 5. Carlos Munoz, Honda 230.287 RACE DISTANCE: 200 laps, 500 miles ROW 2 12 6. Will Power, Chevrolet 229.669 RACE RECORD: Tony Kanaan, 187.433 mph, 2013 Turn 4 Start/Finish Turn 1 7 7. Mikhail Aleshin, Honda 229.562 22 8. Simon Pagenaud, Chevrolet 229.139
ROW 3 3 9. Helio Castroneves, Chevrolet 229.115 Montoya passed 2008 Indy 500 champion Scott Dixon and then held off Team Penske teammate Will Power over the last 10 77 10. Oriol Servia, Honda 229.060 miles, winning by 0.1046 of a second 98 11. Alexander Rossi, Honda 228.473
for the title. ROW 4 14 12. Takuma Sato, Honda 228.029
9 13. Scott Dixon, Chevrolet 227.991 27 14. Marco Andretti, Honda 227.969
ROW 5 6 15. J.R. Hildebrand, Chevrolet 227.876 WINS 20 42 16. Charlie Kimball, Chevrolet 227.822
15 2 17. Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet 227.684 WINNING STARTING POSITIONS ROW 6 10 18. Tony Kanaan, Chevrolet 227.430 10 11 19. Sebastien Bourdais, Chevrolet 227.428 5 20 20. Ed Carpenter, Chevrolet 227.226
0 ROW 7 19 21. Gabby Chaves, Honda 227.192 POS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 20 21 22 25 27 28 NOTE: No entry starting at the 18th, 23rd, 24th, 26th, 29th, 30th, 31st, 32nd and 33rd 8 22. Max Chilton, Chevrolet 226.686 positions has won the race to date. 24 23. Sage Karam, Chevrolet 226.436
ROW 8 18 24. Conor Daly, Honda 226.312 200 MPH 187.433 63 25. Pippa Mann, Honda 226.006 (record) 15 26. Graham Rahal, Honda 225.847
World War II ROW 9 61 27. Matt Brabham, Chevrolet 225.727 150 (no races) World War I 161.341 88 28. Bryan Clauson, Honda 225.266 (no races) 16 29. Spencer Pigot, Honda 224.847 100 AVERAGE WINNING SPEEDS ROW 10 25 30. Stefan Wilson, Chevrolet 224.602
74.602 41 31. Jack Hawksworth, Honda 224.596 32. , Chevrolet 222.154 50 4 Buddy Lazier
1911 ’20 ’30 ’40 ’50 ’60 ’70 ’80 ’90 ’00 ’10 ’15 ROW 11 35 33. Alex Tagliani, Honda No speed
SOURCE: Indianapolis Motor Speedway AP