2015 Grand Prix of Indianapolis
| Race details | ||
|---|---|---|
| 4th round of the 2015 IndyCar Series season | ||
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| Date | May 9, 2015 | |
| Official name | Grand Prix of Indianapolis | |
| Location | Indianapolis Motor Speedway Speedway, Indiana | |
| Course | Road Course 2.439 mi / 3.925 km | |
| Distance | 82 laps, 200 mi / 321.87 km | |
| Pole position | ||
| Driver |  Will Power |
Team Penske |
| Time | 1:09.4886 | |
| Fastest lap | ||
| Driver |  James Hinchcliffe |
Schmidt Peterson Motorsports |
| Time | 1:10.8604 (on lap 68 of 82) | |
| Podium | ||
| First | Will Power | Team Penske |
| Second |  Graham Rahal | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing |
| Third |  Juan Pablo Montoya | Team Penske |
The 2015 Grand Prix of Indianapolis, the second running of the event, was an IndyCar Series race sponsored by Angie's List and held on May 9, 2015, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The fifth round of the 2015 season, it was won by Will Power of Team Penske. Graham Rahal took second for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing as he did in the previous round and Juan Pablo Montoya who races for Team Penske came in third. The top finishing rookie in the race was Stefano Coletti who finished tenth, the highest finish for a rookie so far in the 2015 season, snapping Gabby Chaves’s streak of being the top rookie finisher in all the previous rounds.
Report
| Key | Meaning |
|---|---|
| R | Rookie |
| W | Past winner |
Qualifying
| Pos | No. | Name | Grp. | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Will Power |
1 | 1:10.0394 | 1:09.6443 | 1:09.4886 | ||||
| 2 | 9 |  Scott Dixon |
2 | 1:09.7798 | 1:09.9966 | 1:09.7156 | ||||
| 3 | 3 |  Hélio Castroneves |
2 | 1:09.8917 | 1:09.8773 | 1:09.7388 | ||||
| 4 | 2 | Juan Pablo Montoya |
1 | 1:10.2695 | 1:09.9151 | 1:09.8072 | ||||
| 5 | 22 |  Simon Pagenaud W |
2 | 1:10.0145 | 1:09.7769 | 1:09.8715 | ||||
| 6 | 10 | Tony Kanaan |
2 | 1:10.2264 | 1:09.9038 | 1:10.2772 | ||||
| 7 | 11 | Sébastien Bourdais |
2 | 1:10.0230 | 1:10.0230 | |||||
| 8 | 17 | Sebastián Saavedra |
1 | 1:10.2779 | 1:10.1572 | |||||
| 9 | 20 |  Luca Filippi |
1 | 1:10.3168 | 1:10.1969 | |||||
| 10 | 4 |  Stefano Coletti R |
1 | 1:10.3840 | 1:10.3679 | |||||
| 11 | 41 |  Jack Hawksworth |
2 | 1:10.3971 | 1:10.4558 | |||||
| 12 | 21 | Josef Newgarden |
2 | 1:10.4283 | 1:10.8321 | |||||
| 13 | 5 | James Hinchcliffe |
1 | 1:10.6273 | ||||||
| 14 | 83 | Charlie Kimball |
2 | 1:10.5031 | ||||||
| 15 | 6 | J. R. Hildebrand |
1 | 1:10.6380 | ||||||
| 16 | 98 | Gabby Chaves R |
2 | 1:10.5282 | ||||||
| 17 | 15 | Graham Rahal |
1 | 1:10.6480 | ||||||
| 18 | 25 | Justin Wilson |
2 | 1:10.5776 | ||||||
| 19 | 28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay |
1 | 1:10.8345 | ||||||
| 20 | 7 | James Jakes |
2 | 1:10.6749 | ||||||
| 21 | 26 | Carlos Muñoz |
1 | 1:10.8786 | ||||||
| 22 | 14 |  Takuma Sato |
2 | 1:10.7391 | ||||||
| 23 | 18 | Carlos Huertas |
1 | 1:12.5038 | ||||||
| 24 | 27 | Marco Andretti |
2 | 1:11.1636 | ||||||
| 25 | 19 | Francesco Dracone R |
2 | 1:12.5814 | ||||||
| Qualifications | ||||||||||
Race results
Championship standings after the race
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included.
References
- Lap Report - Verizon IndyCar Series, May 9, 2015
| Previous race: 2015 Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama |
IndyCar Series 2015 season |
Next race: 2015 Indianapolis 500 |
| Previous race: 2014 Grand Prix of Indianapolis |
Grand Prix of Indianapolis | Next race: 2016 Grand Prix of Indianapolis |
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