97th Indianapolis 500 Mile-Race

[heliocastroneves#3]

Race 5 of 19

Race - 97th Indianapolis 500

Location - Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Speedway, IN

Date - Sunday, May 26th

Time & TV Schedule - Pre-Race Show - 11:00AM , Green Flag - Approx. 12:12PM - ABC

Course Type - 2.5 Mile Oval

Distance - 200 Laps / 500 Miles

Practice Sessions -

Saturday, May 11th -12:00 -6:00pm Eastern
Sunday, May 12th -12:00 - 6:00pm Eastern
Monday, May 13th - 12:00 -6:00pm Eastern
Tuesday, May 14th - 12:00 - 6:00pm Eastern
Wednesday, May 15th - 12:00 -6:00pm Eastern
Thursday, May 16th - 12:00 - 6:00pm Eastern
Friday, May 17th -Fast Friday - 12:00 - 6:00pm Eastern / Qualification Order Drawing - 6:15pm
Saturday, May 18th - Pole Day - 8:00-8:30am Group 1 & 8:30-9:00am Group 2 / 9:00am - 10:00am All Cars
Sunday, May 19th - 9:00am - 10:00am
Wednesday, May 22nd -Pit Stop Practice - 9:00am -12:00pm
Thursday, May 23rd - Pit Stop Practice 12:15pm - 1:00pm & 2:30pm -5:00pm
Friday, May 24th - Miller Lite Carb Day - 11:00am-12:00pm / Pit Stop Competition - 1:30pm -3:30pm

Qualifications

Saturday, May 18th - Pole Day -

10:45am - Qualifying Line Begins
11:00am -4:00pm Segment 1 qualifying- positions 1-24
4:30pm -6:00pm - Segment 2 & 3 - Positions 1-9 (to determine pole)
6:15pm - Qualification Order Drawing for Bump Day

Sunday, May 19th - Bump Day

11:30am -Cars go in qualification line
12:00pm -6:00pm -Qualifying for positions 25-33 / 6:15pm - Race Day Pit Selection

Sunday, May 26th - Race Day

9:30am - 9:55am- Cars moved to pit lane
10:15am -10:40am - Grid
10:50am -11:00am - Engine Warm-up
11:33am - Driver Introductions
12:04 - Pace Laps
12:12 - Approximate Green Flag Start Time

Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Length - 2.5 Miles
Front & Back Straightaways - 5/8 of a mile each
Short Chutes (Straights between turns) - 1/8 of a mile each
Turns 1-4 -1/4 of a mile each
Banking -9 degrees - 12 minutes on Turns - 0 degrees on straights

Track layout



Entry list

#1 - Ryan Hunter-Reay - Andretti Autosport
#2 - A.J. Allmendinger (R) - Penske Racing
#3 - Helio Castroneves - Penske Racing
#4 - J.R. Hildebrand - Panther Racing
#5 - E.J. Viso - Team Venezuela/Andretti/HVM
#6 - Sebastian Saavedra - Dragon Racing
#7 - Sebastien Bourdais - Dragon Racing
#8 - Ryan Briscoe - NTT DATA Chip Ganassi Racing
#9 - Scott Dixon - Target Chip Ganassi Racing
#10 - Dario Franchitti - Target Chip Ganassi Racing
#11 - Tony Kanaan - KV Racing Technology
#12 - Will Power - Penske Racing
#14 - Takuma Sato - A.J. Foyt Enterprises
#15 - Graham Rahal - Rahal Letterman Lanigan
#16 - James Jakes - Rahal Letterman Lanigan
#17 - Michel Jourdain - Rahal Letterman Lanigan
#18 - Ana Beatriz - Dale Coyne Racing
#19 - Justin Wilson - Dale Coyne Racing
#20 - Ed Carpenter - Ed Carpenter Racing
#21 - Josef Newgarden - Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing
#22 - Oriol Servia - Panther/Dreyer & Reinbold
#25 - Marco Andretti - Andretti Autosport
#26 - Carlos Munoz (R) - Andretti Autosport
#27 - James Hinchcliffe - Andretti Autosport
#41 - Conor Daly (R) - A.J. Foyt Enterprises
#55 - Tristan Vautier (R) - Schmidt/Peterson Motorsports
#60 - Townsend Bell - Panther Racing
#63 - Pippa Mann - Dale Coyne Racing
#77 - Simon Pagenaud - Schmidt/Peterson Motorsports
#78 - Simona de Silvestro - KV Racing Technology
#81 - Katherine Legge - Schmidt/Peterson Motorsports
#83 - Charlie Kimball - Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing
#91 - Buddy Lazier - Lazier Partners Inc.
#98 - Alex Tagliani - Team Barracuda - Bryan Herta Autosport

2012 Indy 500 Race Information

2012 Winner - Dario Franchitti
2012 Pole Sitter - Ryan Briscoe - 226.484 mph
Length Of Race - 2 hours, 42 minutes, 44 seconds
Average Speed - 167.734 mph
Number Of Cautions - 8 for 39 laps
Lead Changes - 34

[heliocastroneves#3]

Qualifying results and other information can be found on the IndyCar website. I'm curious who's not going to make it, if Katherine Legge will be up to speed, I fear Jourdain is not gonna get it done..

[booger]

Qualifying results and other information can be found on the IndyCar website. I'm curious who's not going to make it, if Katherine Legge will be up to speed, I fear Jourdain is not gonna get it done..

Anybody have any idea why there's no TV and no feed as of 1230? There's some stupid hockey game on NBCS and no feed from the Indycar website. Did they run out of "boring" for today?

[Anubis]

Is the official website down for anyone else?

[Nem14]

Yep! Google Chrome told me indycar.com wasn't there.

Sad as it may seem, stick a fork in the Indy 500.

Attendance for yesterday's pole qualifying was astonishingly low.

[gm99]

Is the official website down for anyone else?

Yep, although if you go directly to racecontrol.indycar.com, timing and scoring works for me.

Honda appears to have a bit of a problem in qualifying trim, with Chevy taking the top ten positions yesterday. I wonder if they'll be more competitive in race trim.

[Nem14]

Though the page says:

Live - Bump Day Broadcast
Sunday May 19th
12: 00 PM - 6:00 PM ET

It's 2:06 PM ET, but no Live - Bump Day Broadcast

[Nem14]

33 cars have qualified - Indianapolis 500 Live Grid - Indianapolis 500 - Indianapolis Motor Speedway

[gm99]

What a boring bump day. But congrats to Legge - not a bad pace for a last-minute effort.

[mr nobody]

What a boring bump day. But congrats to Legge - not a bad pace for a last-minute effort.

Couldn't agree more on the boring part. Bump day the last 3 years has been a joke. They need to get back to teams owning/building their own engines (whatever they the teams think will be a winning engine) and mandate two chassis makers and that they build a chassis that can accept any engine that wants to be run: 4, 6, or 8 cylinder engine as long as it is a stock block based engine.