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 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.

Report

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 to 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 Group 2 Top 12 Fast 6 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 Vítor 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 224 J. R. Hildebrand (R) Panther Racing 1:23.8443 23 34 Sebastián 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 22 104 J. R. Hildebrand (R) Panther Racing 55 + 31.3172 22 0 20 11 34 Sebastián 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 Vítor 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

External links IndyCar Results Page