| Race details | |
|---|---|
| 17th round of the 2011 IndyCar Series season | |
 | |
| Date | October 2, 2011 |
| Official name | Kentucky Indy 300 |
| Location | Kentucky Speedway, Sparta, Kentucky |
| Course | Permanent racing facility 1.480 mi / 2.382 km |
| Distance | 200 laps 296 mi / 476.366 km |
| Weather | 76 °F (24 °C), overcast |
| Pole position | |
| Driver | Will Power (Verizon Team Penske) |
| Time | 24.2910 |
| Fastest lap | |
| Driver | Ed Carpenter (Dollar General/Sarah Fisher Racing) |
| Time | 24.3847 (on lap 73 of 200) |
| Podium | |
| First | Ed Carpenter (Dollar General/Sarah Fisher Racing) |
| Second | Dario Franchitti (Downy/Chip Ganassi) |
| Third | Scott Dixon (Target Chip Ganassi Racing) |
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.
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.
Grid
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]
| Row | Inside | Outside | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Will Power |
38 |  Graham Rahal |
| 2 | 06 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} James Hinchcliffe (R) |
67 | Ed Carpenter |
| 3 | 4 | J. R. Hildebrand (R) |
26 | Marco Andretti |
| 4 | 9 |  Scott Dixon |
28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay |
| 5 | 2 |  Oriol Servià |
83 | Charlie Kimball (R) |
| 6 | 10 |  Dario Franchitti |
27 |  Mike Conway |
| 7 | 78 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Simona de Silvestro |
7 | Danica Patrick |
| 8 | 17 | Wade Cunningham (R) |
3 |  Hélio Castroneves |
| 9 | 44 | Buddy Rice |
6 | Ryan Briscoe |
| 10 | 82 | Tony Kanaan |
24 | Ana Beatriz (R) |
| 11 | 14 | Vítor Meira |
5 |  Takuma Sato |
| 12 | 59 |  E. J. Viso |
19 |  Alex Lloyd |
| 13 | 34 | Dillon Battistini (R) |
22 | Townsend Bell |
| 14 | 18 | James Jakes (R) |
77 | Dan Wheldon † |
| 15 | 30 | Pippa Mann | ||
† 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
- ↑ "This Week's Racing". Courier-Post. 2011-09-30. 4D. Retrieved 2018-08-28 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series - Kentucky Indy 300 [Full race], retrieved 2022-05-30