2013 GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma

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2013 Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma
Race details
15th round of the 2013 IndyCar Series season
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Date August 25, 2013
Official name GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma
Location Sonoma Raceway
Course Road course
2.303 mi / 3.706 km
Distance 85 laps
195.755 mi / 315.010 km
Pole position
Driver Dario Franchitti (Chip Ganassi Racing)
Time 1:17.5271
Podium
First Will Power (Team Penske)
Second Justin Wilson (Dale Coyne Racing)
Third Dario Franchitti (Chip Ganassi Racing)

The 2013 GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma was an IndyCar Series race held on August 25, 2013 at Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma, California. The race was the fifteenth of the 2013 IndyCar Series season, and was won by Will Power of Team Penske.

Report

Background

The previous race of the season, the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, was won by Charlie Kimball.[1] The 2012 edition of Sonoma race was won by Ryan Briscoe.[2]

Entering the race, James Hinchcliffe[3][4] and Scott Dixon[5][6] were tied for the most wins with three. In the points race, Helio Castroneves held the lead with 453 points, followed by Dixon (422), Ryan Hunter-Reay (388), Marco Andretti (377) and Simon Pagenaud (350) rounded out the top five.[7]

Qualifying

Dario Franchitti won his 33rd career pole position,[8] his fourth of 2013 and third at the track, with a lap time of 1:17.5271. Teammate Scott Dixon started second with a time of 1:17.7196,[9] Team Penske teammates Will Power and Helio Castroneves were in third and fourth, respectively. Ryan Hunter-Reay closed out the top five starting spots. Charlie Kimball, Justin Wilson, Graham Rahal, James Hinchcliffe and Simon Pagenaud rounded out the starting top ten.[10] JR Hildebrand, making his return to IndyCar since the Indianapolis 500, started 18th,[11] while Ryan Briscoe, running his final race of the season, started 22nd.[12] Lucas Luhr started his IndyCar debut in 25th.[13] The race was also Tony Kanaan's 311th, tying him with Jimmy Vasser for most consecutive IndyCar starts.[11]

Race

The race featured a track record seven cautions,[14] four of which came in turn 7.[10] Meanwhile, Scott Dixon and Will Power battled throughout the day, but during the final pit stops with 15 laps to go, Dixon sped out of his pit box and struck Power's right rear tire carrier, sending the carrier into another pit member, while another was injured by an air gun. None of the three were seriously injured, and were treated with ice. As hitting pit crew members and pit equipment results in a penalty, Dixon fell back to 21st and finished 15th. The penalty became controversial after Dixon believed Power's crew member walked in front of Dixon's car intentionally.[14] Dixon eventually called the ruling "pretty annoying"; IndyCar race director Beaux Barfield stated that replays Dixon hadn't seen of the incident showed him driving too close to Power's car, which was getting serviced at the time.[15] As for Power, he led for the remainder of the race, and beat Justin Wilson by 1.2 seconds for his nineteenth career IndyCar victory and first in 25 races, while Dario Franchitti, Marco Andretti and Simon Pagenaud closed out the top ten.[16] The win was Power's third at Sonoma in four years, as he continues to be the only IndyCar driver with multiple wins at the track.[17]

Sometime during the later portion of the race, Andretti made contact with Power, which led to a confrontation between Andretti and Power's car owner Roger Penske after the race.[14]

The points standings featured Castroneves increasing his then 31-point lead over Dixon[7] to a 39-point lead (479 points to 440), while Ryan Hunter-Reay (417), Marco Andretti (409), Simon Pagenaud (380) and Dario Franchitti (379) remained as the top six, Justin Wilson and Will Power leapt past James Hinchcliffe and Charlie Kimball for seventh and eight, respectively, dropping Hinchcliffe and Kimball to ninth and tenth.[7][10]

References

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2013 Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio		 IndyCar Series
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2013 Grand Prix of Baltimore
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2014 GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma
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