2011 São Paulo Indy 300

2011 Streets of São Paulo

Race details
4th round of the 2011 IndyCar Series season
Date	May 1, 2011
Official name	Itaipava São Paulo Indy 300 presented by Nestlé
Location	Santana – São Paulo city
Course	Temporary street circuit 2.536 mi / 4.081 km
Distance	55 laps 139.480 mi / 224.471 km
Scheduled Distance	75 laps 190.200 mi / 306.097 km
Pole position
Driver	Will Power (Team Penske)
Time	1:21.8958
Fastest lap
Driver	Simona de Silvestro (HVM Racing)
Time	1:39.8231 (on lap 36 of 55)
Podium
First	Will Power (Team Penske)
Second	Graham Rahal (Chip Ganassi Racing)
Third	Ryan Briscoe (Team Penske)

The Itaipava São Paulo Indy 300 presented by Nestlé was the fourth race of the 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series season. The race took place on May 1 and 2, on the 2.536-mile (4.081 km) temporary street circuit in São Paulo, Brazil, and was telecasted by Versus in the United States and TV Bandeirantes in Brazil. After a rain delay that lasted almost two and a half hours, attempts to run the event in full on the Sunday were scrapped with the race completed on Monday May 2.

Classification

Qualifying

• All cars were split into two groups of twelve, with the fastest six from each group going through to the "top 12" session. In this session, the fastest six cars progressed to the "Firestone Fast Six." The fastest driver in the final session claimed pole, with the rest of the cars lining up in session order, regardless of qualifying times. (fast six from 1–6, top 12 from 7–12 and round 1 from 13–24, with group 1 drivers occupying the odd–numbered grid positions, and group 2 drivers occupying the even–numbered grid positions.

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Group 1[1]	Group 2[2]	Top 12[3]	Fast 6[4]
1	12	Will Power	Team Penske		1:22.2329	1:22.0675	1:21.8958
2	28	Ryan Hunter–Reay	Andretti Autosport	1:23.3280		1:22.3374	1:22.2975
3	9	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing		1:22.5791	1:22.3611	1:22.3620
4	6	Ryan Briscoe	Team Penske		1:22.7224	1:22.3028	1:22.3937
5	38	Graham Rahal	Chip Ganassi Racing	1:23.1280		1:22.3886	1:22.4970
6	10	Dario Franchitti	Chip Ganassi Racing		1:22.7716	1:22.2273	1:22.6103
7	3	Hélio Castroneves	Team Penske	1:23.1988		1:22.6283
8	22	Justin Wilson	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing		1:23.2549	1:22.6471
9	27	Mike Conway	Andretti Autosport		1:22.7828	1:22.6986
10	5	Takuma Sato	KV Racing Technology – Lotus	1:23.4955		1:22.7379
11	06	James Hinchcliffe (R)	Newman/Haas Racing	1:23.4911		1:22.8450
12	19	Sébastien Bourdais	Dale Coyne Racing	1:23.4266		1:22.9084
13	78	Simona de Silvestro	HVM Racing	1:23.6807
14	14	Vitor Meira	A. J. Foyt Enterprises		1:23.3196
15	26	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	1:23.7682
16	2	Oriol Servià	Newman/Haas Racing		1:23.4015
17	7	Danica Patrick	Andretti Autosport	1:24.0967
18	83	Charlie Kimball (R)	Chip Ganassi Racing		1:23.7126
19	17	Raphael Matos	AFS Racing	1:24.1890
20	77	Alex Tagliani	Sam Schmidt Motorsports		1:23.7801
21	82	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing Technology - Lotus	1:24.2205
22	4	J.R. Hildebrand (R)	Panther Racing		1:23.8443
23	34	Sebastian Saavedra (R)	Conquest Racing	1:24.2963
24	18	James Jakes (R)	Dale Coyne Racing		1:23.8492
25	24	Ana Beatriz (R)	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	1:24.8246
26	59	E.J. Viso	KV Racing Technology - Lotus		No Time

Race

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Laps Led	Points
1	12	Will Power	Team Penske	55	2:04:05.2964	1	32	53
2	38	Graham Rahal	Chip Ganassi Racing	55	+ 4.6723	5	0	40
3	6	Ryan Briscoe	Team Penske	55	+ 7.9037	4	0	35
4	10	Dario Franchitti	Chip Ganassi Racing	55	+ 10.1470	6	0	32
5	2	Oriol Servià	Newman/Haas Racing	55	+ 15.8188	16	0	30
6	27	Mike Conway	Andretti Autosport	55	+ 16.6775	9	0	28
7	22	Justin Wilson	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	55	+ 20.0131	8	0	26
8	5	Takuma Sato	KV Racing Technology – Lotus	55	+ 23.0683	10	23	24
9	06	James Hinchcliffe (R)	Newman/Haas Racing	55	+ 25.2924	11	0	22
10	4	J.R. Hildebrand (R)	Panther Racing	55	+ 31.3172	22	0	20
11	34	Sebastian Saavedra (R)	Conquest Racing	55	+ 36.4261	23	0	19
12	9	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	55	+ 42.1974	3	0	18
13	59	E.J. Viso	KV Racing Technology - Lotus	55	+ 45.8266	26	0	17
14	26	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	55	+ 1:14.5634	15	0	16
15	18	James Jakes (R)	Dale Coyne Racing	55	+ 1:16.2783	24	0	15
16	83	Charlie Kimball (R)	Chip Ganassi Racing	54	+ 1 Lap	18	0	14
17	14	Vitor Meira	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	53	+ 2 Laps	14	0	13
18	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	50	+ 5 Laps	2	0	12
19	77	Alex Tagliani	Sam Schmidt Motorsports	48	+ 7 Laps	20	0	12
20	78	Simona de Silvestro	HVM Racing	46	+ 9 Laps	13	0	12
21	3	Hélio Castroneves	Team Penske	46	+ 9 Laps	7	0	12
22	82	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing Technology - Lotus	46	+ 9 Laps	21	0	12
23	7	Danica Patrick	Andretti Autosport	46	+ 9 Laps	17	0	12
24	24	Ana Beatriz (R)	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	31	Mechanical	25	0	12
25	17	Raphael Matos	AFS Racing	28	Contact	19	0	10
26	19	Sébastien Bourdais	Dale Coyne Racing	20	Contact	12	0	10
OFFICIAL RACE REPORT

NOTE: Under agreement from race organisers, INDYCAR, and Brazilian television rights holder Rede Bandeirantes, there is a two-hour time limit for this race. The first 14 laps from Sunday took 40:46 to run, and that time was deducted from Monday morning's race. The Monday race featured a 1:19:14 timed race (the remaining time from Sunday's race limit).

Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Will Power 168 2 Dario Franchitti 154 3 Oriol Servià 110 4 Mike Conway 102 5 Ryan Briscoe 101 Note: Only the top five positions are included. References "Sao Paulo Indy 300: Qualifying, Round 1 – Group 1" (PDF). IndyCar Series. INDYCAR. 2011-04-30. Retrieved 2011-05-02. "Sao Paulo Indy 300: Qualifying, Round 1 – Group 2" (PDF). IndyCar Series. INDYCAR. 2011-04-30. Retrieved 2011-05-02. "Sao Paulo Indy 300: Qualifying – Top 12" (PDF). IndyCar Series. INDYCAR. 2011-05-02. Retrieved 2011-04-30. "Sao Paulo Indy 300: Qualifying – Fast 6" (PDF). IndyCar Series. INDYCAR. 2011-05-02. Retrieved 2011-04-30. External links IndyCar Results Page