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2011 MoveThatBlock.com Indy 225
The 2011 MoveThatBlock.com Indy 225 was an IZOD IndyCar Series open-wheel race that was held on August 14, 2011 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire before 28,000 spectators. It was the 13th round of the 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series and the eighth and final running of the event (counting the four years under Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) sanctioning). The 215-lap race, shortened from its scheduled distance of 225 laps because of rain, was won by Ryan Hunter-Reay of Andretti Autosport. Newman/Haas Racing driver Oriol Servià finished second, and Scott Dixon came in third for Chip Ganassi Racing.
Dario Franchitti, the championship leader heading into the race, won the pole position by setting the fastest two-lap time in qualifying. Pippa Mann was injured in a crash during the final practice session and did not start the race. Franchitti led 115 of the first 117 laps, but was taken out of the race because of a collision with Takuma Sato during a restart, breaking a 43-race streak of consecutive finishes. Hunter-Reay then assumed the lead and dominated the second half of the race, only relinquishing the lead during green-flag pit stops.
A caution flag was issued on the 206th lap for light rainfall, which worsened as the drivers slowly paced around the track. Though many of the drivers and team owners complained that the track surface had become unsafe, the race resumed on lap 218, only for a five-car crash to ensue on the front stretch. Among the drivers involved in the crash was championship contender Will Power, who was so irate that he flipped off the officials on the live broadcast. The failed restart attempt prompted heavy criticism towards Brian Barnhart, the series' already-controversial race director, who was eventually ousted from his role in November 2011.
To undo the championship implications of the crash, the running order on lap 215 was used as the final finishing results, meaning that Hunter-Reay had earned his fifth career victory. The decision was protested by Servià's and Dixon's teams because they had both crossed the start/finish line ahead of Hunter-Reay and they felt that reverting the finishing order was unfair, as no such rule existed in the series' rulebook. However, a three-man panel ruled on August 23 that Barnhart was correct to revert the order and the results were upheld with Hunter-Reay, Servià, and Dixon in the top-three positions. This was ultimately the last IndyCar Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway because of low attendance.
New Hampshire Motor Speedway is a four-turn, 1.058 mi (1.703 km) oval track with variable banking of two-to-seven-degrees in the turns. Following four CART series races at New Hampshire from 1992 to 1995, the IndyCar Series (then the Indy Racing League) debuted at the track in 1996. However, low attendance rates caused series officials to remove the track from its schedule after 1998.
On the day of the 2010 Lenox Industrial Tools 301 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, Speedway Motorsports Inc. (SMI) chief executive officer (CEO) Bruton Smith, track vice president and general manager Jerry Gappens, and IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard announced that the IndyCar Series would return to the track on July 30, 2011, as part of a three-year deal. Gappens revealed that he and SMI had been planning the deal since they bought out the track in January 2008. Dario Franchitti, who won the Indianapolis 500 a month prior to the announcement, completed three demonstration laps around the track. The race was later pushed back to August 14, 2011, due to schedule changes for the track's NASCAR weekends. In June 2011, the race gained title sponsorship from real estate website MoveThatBlock.com, thus naming the event the MoveThatBlock.com Indy 225. The Firestone Indy Lights, American Canadian Tour, and NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour hosted support races during the weekend.
The MoveThatBlock.com Indy 225 was to be held over a distance of 225 laps and 238.05 miles (383.10 km). It was the 13th of 18 scheduled open-wheel races for the 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series. Heading into the race, Franchitti had earned 428 points and held a 62-point lead over second-placed Will Power in the Drivers' Championship standings. Scott Dixon was third with 335 points, followed by Tony Kanaan on 283 and Oriol Servià on 268. Despite Power's win at Edmonton, two collisions with Franchitti at Toronto and Mid-Ohio raised the championship contenders' tensions and caused the gap between them in the standings to widen. Franchitti initially insinuated that Power purposefully attempted to spin him in the preceding Mid-Ohio race, but later surmised that it was only because he and Power had been racing so closely.
There were 27 cars entered for the race that represented 15 different teams. All cars used the Dallara IR-05 chassis and the Honda Indy V8 engine. Tomas Scheckter took Justin Wilson's seat in the No. 22 Dreyer & Reinbold Racing car after Wilson suffered a fracture to his fifth thoracic vertebrae in a practice crash at Mid-Ohio and was expected to stay out of racing for the rest of the season. Wilson expressed disappointment with his injury, especially because he felt that his season had been improving, but was determined to heal his back. Alex Lloyd also replaced Sébastien Bourdais in Dale Coyne Racing's No. 19 car because Bourdais decided not to compete in any oval races that season. Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing appeared for the first time since the twin Texas races in June with Pippa Mann, who finished fifth in the 2010 Firestone Indy Lights standings. She was also set to compete in the races at Kentucky and Las Vegas.
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2011 MoveThatBlock.com Indy 225
The 2011 MoveThatBlock.com Indy 225 was an IZOD IndyCar Series open-wheel race that was held on August 14, 2011 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire before 28,000 spectators. It was the 13th round of the 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series and the eighth and final running of the event (counting the four years under Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) sanctioning). The 215-lap race, shortened from its scheduled distance of 225 laps because of rain, was won by Ryan Hunter-Reay of Andretti Autosport. Newman/Haas Racing driver Oriol Servià finished second, and Scott Dixon came in third for Chip Ganassi Racing.
Dario Franchitti, the championship leader heading into the race, won the pole position by setting the fastest two-lap time in qualifying. Pippa Mann was injured in a crash during the final practice session and did not start the race. Franchitti led 115 of the first 117 laps, but was taken out of the race because of a collision with Takuma Sato during a restart, breaking a 43-race streak of consecutive finishes. Hunter-Reay then assumed the lead and dominated the second half of the race, only relinquishing the lead during green-flag pit stops.
A caution flag was issued on the 206th lap for light rainfall, which worsened as the drivers slowly paced around the track. Though many of the drivers and team owners complained that the track surface had become unsafe, the race resumed on lap 218, only for a five-car crash to ensue on the front stretch. Among the drivers involved in the crash was championship contender Will Power, who was so irate that he flipped off the officials on the live broadcast. The failed restart attempt prompted heavy criticism towards Brian Barnhart, the series' already-controversial race director, who was eventually ousted from his role in November 2011.
To undo the championship implications of the crash, the running order on lap 215 was used as the final finishing results, meaning that Hunter-Reay had earned his fifth career victory. The decision was protested by Servià's and Dixon's teams because they had both crossed the start/finish line ahead of Hunter-Reay and they felt that reverting the finishing order was unfair, as no such rule existed in the series' rulebook. However, a three-man panel ruled on August 23 that Barnhart was correct to revert the order and the results were upheld with Hunter-Reay, Servià, and Dixon in the top-three positions. This was ultimately the last IndyCar Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway because of low attendance.
New Hampshire Motor Speedway is a four-turn, 1.058 mi (1.703 km) oval track with variable banking of two-to-seven-degrees in the turns. Following four CART series races at New Hampshire from 1992 to 1995, the IndyCar Series (then the Indy Racing League) debuted at the track in 1996. However, low attendance rates caused series officials to remove the track from its schedule after 1998.
On the day of the 2010 Lenox Industrial Tools 301 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, Speedway Motorsports Inc. (SMI) chief executive officer (CEO) Bruton Smith, track vice president and general manager Jerry Gappens, and IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard announced that the IndyCar Series would return to the track on July 30, 2011, as part of a three-year deal. Gappens revealed that he and SMI had been planning the deal since they bought out the track in January 2008. Dario Franchitti, who won the Indianapolis 500 a month prior to the announcement, completed three demonstration laps around the track. The race was later pushed back to August 14, 2011, due to schedule changes for the track's NASCAR weekends. In June 2011, the race gained title sponsorship from real estate website MoveThatBlock.com, thus naming the event the MoveThatBlock.com Indy 225. The Firestone Indy Lights, American Canadian Tour, and NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour hosted support races during the weekend.
The MoveThatBlock.com Indy 225 was to be held over a distance of 225 laps and 238.05 miles (383.10 km). It was the 13th of 18 scheduled open-wheel races for the 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series. Heading into the race, Franchitti had earned 428 points and held a 62-point lead over second-placed Will Power in the Drivers' Championship standings. Scott Dixon was third with 335 points, followed by Tony Kanaan on 283 and Oriol Servià on 268. Despite Power's win at Edmonton, two collisions with Franchitti at Toronto and Mid-Ohio raised the championship contenders' tensions and caused the gap between them in the standings to widen. Franchitti initially insinuated that Power purposefully attempted to spin him in the preceding Mid-Ohio race, but later surmised that it was only because he and Power had been racing so closely.
There were 27 cars entered for the race that represented 15 different teams. All cars used the Dallara IR-05 chassis and the Honda Indy V8 engine. Tomas Scheckter took Justin Wilson's seat in the No. 22 Dreyer & Reinbold Racing car after Wilson suffered a fracture to his fifth thoracic vertebrae in a practice crash at Mid-Ohio and was expected to stay out of racing for the rest of the season. Wilson expressed disappointment with his injury, especially because he felt that his season had been improving, but was determined to heal his back. Alex Lloyd also replaced Sébastien Bourdais in Dale Coyne Racing's No. 19 car because Bourdais decided not to compete in any oval races that season. Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing appeared for the first time since the twin Texas races in June with Pippa Mann, who finished fifth in the 2010 Firestone Indy Lights standings. She was also set to compete in the races at Kentucky and Las Vegas.
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