2011_Kentucky_Indy_300

2011 Kentucky Indy 300

2011 Kentucky Indy 300

Motor car race

The 2011 Kentucky Indy 300 was the twelfth running of the Kentucky Indy 300 and the seventeenth round of the 2011 IndyCar Series season. It took place on Sunday, October 2, 2011. The race contested over 200 laps at the 1.480-mile (2.382 km) Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Kentucky.

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This would ultimately be the last classified race of Dan Wheldon's career. In the following race, Wheldon would be involved in a 15-car accident at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, which would claim his life. The race was abandoned, and therefore was not classified as an official race. Buddy Rice and Vítor Meira were also in this and the next race, after which they made no more IndyCar starts, making this the final classified race of their careers as well. This was also the final classified race for the Newman/Haas Racing.

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Dan Wheldon, whose only race to date in the 2011 IndyCar series had been his win at the Indianapolis 500, replaced Alex Tagliani in the Sam Schmidt Motorsports #77 car.[1]

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† Did not qualify.

Results

Pos[2] Name Laps Start (Moves)
1 Ed Carpenter 67 200 4 (+3)
2 Dario Franchitti 10 200 11 (+9)
3 Scott Dixon 9 200 7 (+4)
4 (R) James Hinchcliffe 06 200 3 (-1)
5 Ryan Hunter-Reay 28 200 8 (+3)
6 Oriol Servia 2 200 9 (-3)
7 (R) Wade Cunningham 17 200 15 (+8)
8 Ryan Briscoe 6 200 18 (+10)
9 Buddy Rice 44 200 17 (+8)
10 Danica Patrick 7 200 14 (+4)
11 Townsend Bell 22 200 26 (+15)
12 Graham Rahal 38 200 2 (-10)
13 (R) Charlie Kimball 83 200 10 (-3)
14 Dan Wheldon 77 200 28 (+13)
15 Takuma Sato 5 200 22 (+7)
16 Vítor Meira 14 200 21 (+5)
17 Tony Kanaan 82 200 19 (+2)
18 Mike Conway 27 200 13 (-5)
19 Will Power 12 200 1 (-18)
20 (R) JR Hildebrand 4 199 5 (-15)
21 (R) James Jakes 18 198 27 (+6)
22 Pippa Mann 30 197 29 (+7)
23 EJ Viso 59 192 23 (0)
24 (R) Ana Beatriz 24 Ret 20 (-4)
25 Simona De Silvestro 78 Ret 13 (-18)
26 Alex Lloyd 19 Ret 24 (-2)
27 Marco Andretti 26 Ret 6 (-21)
28 (R) Dillon Battistini 34 Ret 25 (-3)
29 Hélio Castroneves 3 Ret 16 (-13)

Italics indicates the pole sitter

Bold indicates the podium

References

  1. [1]
    "This Week's Racing". Courier-Post. 2011-09-30. 4D. Retrieved 2018-08-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. [2]
    2011 IZOD IndyCar Series - Kentucky Indy 300 [Full race], retrieved 2022-05-30
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