2012 Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio

  2012 Honda Indy 200

Race details
12th round of the 2012 IndyCar Series season
Date	August 5, 2012
Official name	Honda 200
Location	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
Course	Permanent racing facility 2.258 mi / 3.634 km
Distance	85 laps, 191.930 mi / 308.881 km
Weather	Temperatures reaching up to 93 °F (34 °C); wind speeds reaching up to 18.1 miles per hour (29.1 km/h)[1]
Pole position
Driver	Will Power	Team Penske
Time	1:05.6474
Fastest lap
Driver	Oriol Servia	Panther/Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
Time	1:07.1757 (on lap 66 of 85)
Podium
First	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing
Second	Will Power	Team Penske
Third	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports

The Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio was the twelfth round of the 2012 IndyCar Series season. It took place on Sunday, August 5, 2012. The race was contested over 85 laps at the 2.258-mile (3.634 km) permanent road course at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio, United States.

The race was won by New Zealand racer Scott Dixon racing for Chip Ganassi Racing. Dixon finished 3.4 seconds ahead of Australian driver Will Power driving for Team Penske with Frenchman Simon Pagenaud finishing third for Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports. It was Dixon's second win for the year and Pagenaud's third top three finish for the year. More significant, Power's second place compared to the results for Ryan Hunter-Reay and Power's teammate Hélio Castroneves, put Power back into the lead of the championship.

Classification

Race results

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Engine	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Laps Led	Points^1
1	9	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	85	1:39:48.5083	4	26	50
2	12	Will Power	Team Penske	Chevrolet	85	+ 3.4619	1	57	43
3	77	Simon Pagenaud (R)	Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports	Honda	85	+ 4.5402	3	0	35
4	7	Sébastien Bourdais	Dragon Racing	Chevrolet	85	+ 5.5822	6	0	32
5	27	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	Chevrolet	85	+ 7.5663	15	2	30
6	11	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing Technology	Chevrolet	85	+ 12.3280	18	0	28
7	2	Ryan Briscoe	Team Penske	Chevrolet	85	+ 27.9601	5	0	26
8	26	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Chevrolet	85	+ 28.1691	8	0	24
9	4	J.R. Hildebrand	Panther Racing	Chevrolet	85	+ 29.2325	12	0	22
10	98	Alex Tagliani	Team Barracuda – BHA	Honda	85	+ 31.1722	14	0	20
11	38	Graham Rahal	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	85	+ 31.4387	21	0	19
12	67	Josef Newgarden (R)	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Honda	85	+ 32.0754	9	0	18
13	15	Takuma Sato	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	85	+ 32.4073	17	0	17
14	83	Giorgio Pantano	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	85	+ 33.9166	24	0	16
15	8	Rubens Barrichello	KV Racing Technology	Chevrolet	85	+ 35.2863	13	0	15
16	3	Hélio Castroneves	Team Penske	Chevrolet	85	+ 35.9205	23	0	14
17	10	Dario Franchitti	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	85	+ 36.9834	2	0	13
18	18	Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	85	+ 42.0974	11	0	12
19	19	James Jakes	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	85	+ 46.4304	10	0	12
20	5	E.J. Viso	KV Racing Technology	Chevrolet	85	+ 46.8068	16	0	12
21	14	Mike Conway	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	Honda	85	+ 46.9535	16	0	12
22	20	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	Chevrolet	84	+ 1 lap	25	0	12
23	78	Simona de Silvestro	HVM Racing	Lotus	83	+ 2 laps	22	0	12
24	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Chevrolet	79	Mechanical	7	0	12
25	22	Oriol Servià	Panther/Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Chevrolet	78	+ 7 laps	10	0	10
OFFICIAL BOX SCORE [2]

Notes

¹ Points include 1 point for pole position and 2 points for most laps led.

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship Pos Driver Points 1 Will Power 379 2 Ryan Hunter-Reay 374 3 Hélio Castroneves 353 4 Scott Dixon 351 5 James Hinchcliffe 316

Manufacturers' Championship Pos Manufacturer Points 1 Chevrolet 96 2 Honda 84 3 Lotus 48 Note: Only the top five positions are included for the driver standings.

References

1. "Weather information for the 2012 Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio". The Old Farmers' Almanac. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
2. "Official Box Score" (PDF). indycar.com. Indycar. 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2012-08-30.

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