2011 Indy Grand Prix of Alabama

**2011 Alabama**
Race details
2nd Round of the 2011 IndyCar Series season

Date	April 10, 2011
Official name	Indy Grand Prix of Alabama
Location	Barber Motorsports Park, Birmingham, Alabama
Course	Road course 2.300 mi / 3.700 km
Distance	90 laps, 207.000 mi / 333.000 km
Weather	84 °F (29 °C), clear skies
Pole
Driver	Will Power	Team Penske
Time	1:11.4546
Fastest Lap
Driver	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing
Time	1:13.8666 (on lap 73 of 90)
Podium
First	Will Power	Team Penske
Second	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing
Third	Dario Franchitti	Chip Ganassi Racing

The 2011 Indy Grand Prix of Alabama was the second race of the 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series season. The race took place on April 10, on the 2.300-mile (3.701 km) road course in Birmingham, Alabama, and was telecast by Versus in the United States.

Report

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 13–24, 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^[1]	Group 2^[2]	Top 12^[3]	Fast 6^[4]
1	12	Will Power	Team Penske	1:11.6683		1:11.3642	1:11.4546
2	6	Ryan Briscoe	Team Penske	1:11.7811		1:11.4142	1:11.7361
3	9	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing		1:11.8418	1:11.3039	1:12.8826
4	3	Hélio Castroneves	Team Penske	1:11.8740		1:11.4043	1:12.1247
5	22	Justin Wilson	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing		1:12.1591	1:11.6825	1:12.3085
6	2	Oriol Servià	Newman/Haas Racing	1:11.8679		1:11.7074	1:12.4394
7	10	Dario Franchitti	Chip Ganassi Racing	1:11.6913		1:11.7090
8	06	James Hinchcliffe (R)	Newman/Haas Racing		1:12.2447	1:11.8183
9	26	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport		1:12.2115	1:11.8672
10	38	Graham Rahal	Chip Ganassi Racing	1:11.9373		1:11.9712
11	5	Takuma Sato	KV Racing Technology – Lotus		1:12.4087	1:12.1667
12	77	Alex Tagliani	Sam Schmidt Motorsports		1:12.3780	1:12.3485
13	78	Simona de Silvestro	HVM Racing	1:12.2559
14	17	Raphael Matos	AFS Racing		1:12.4094
15	4	J. R. Hildebrand (R)	Panther Racing	1:12.2684
16	27	Mike Conway	Andretti Autosport		1:12.5191
17	28	Ryan Hunter–Reay	Andretti Autosport	1:12.3370
18	59	E. J. Viso	KV Racing Technology – Lotus		1:12.6582
19	14	Vitor Meira	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	1:12.5677
20	19	Sébastien Bourdais	Dale Coyne Racing		1:12.6896
21	83	Charlie Kimball (R)	Chip Ganassi Racing	1:12.5857
22	7	Danica Patrick	Andretti Autosport		1:12.7257
23	24	Simon Pagenaud (R)	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	1:12.5900
24	82	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing Technology – Lotus		1:12.8892
25	18	James Jakes (R)	Dale Coyne Racing	1:12.7147
26	34	Sebastian Saavedra (R)	Conquest Racing		1:13.0858

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Laps Led	Points
1	12	Will Power	Team Penske	90	2:14:42.9523	1	90	53
2	9	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	90	+ 3.3828	3	0	40
3	10	Dario Franchitti	Chip Ganassi Racing	90	+ 15.5243	7	0	35
4	26	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	90	+ 28.9601	9	0	32
5	2	Oriol Servià	Newman/Haas Racing	90	+ 29.8817	6	0	30
6	82	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing Technology – Lotus	90	+ 30.3853	24	0	28
7	3	Hélio Castroneves	Team Penske	90	+ 30.7807	4	0	26
8	24	Simon Pagenaud (R)	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	90	+ 31.2095	23	0	24
9	78	Simona de Silvestro	HVM Racing	90	+ 32.5812	13	0	22
10	83	Charlie Kimball (R)	Chip Ganassi Racing	90	+ 35.0038	21	0	20
11	19	Sébastien Bourdais	Dale Coyne Racing	90	+ 35.9883	20	0	19
12	14	Vitor Meira	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	90	+ 42.6440	19	0	18
13	4	J. R. Hildebrand (R)	Panther Racing	90	+ 44.2950	15	0	17
14	28	Ryan Hunter–Reay	Andretti Autosport	90	+ 1:00.7427	17	0	16
15	77	Alex Tagliani	Sam Schmidt Motorsports	90	+ 1:10.6879	12	0	15
16	5	Takuma Sato	KV Racing Technology – Lotus	90	+ 1:12.1719	11	0	14
17	7	Danica Patrick	Andretti Autosport	89	+ 1 Lap	22	0	13
18	38	Graham Rahal	Chip Ganassi Racing	88	+ 2 Laps	10	0	12
19	22	Justin Wilson	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	62	Contact	5	0	12
20	17	Raphael Matos	AFS Racing	62	Contact	14	0	12
21	6	Ryan Briscoe	Team Penske	57	Contact	2	0	12
22	27	Mike Conway	Andretti Autosport	45	Contact	16	0	12
23	59	E. J. Viso	KV Racing Technology – Lotus	40	Contact	18	0	12
24	06	James Hinchcliffe (R)	Newman/Haas Racing	40	Contact	8	0	12
25	18	James Jakes (R)	Dale Coyne Racing	30	Mechanical	25	0	10
26	34	Sebastian Saavedra (R)	Conquest Racing	27	Mechanical	26	0	10
OFFICIAL RACE REPORT

Previous race: 2011 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg	IndyCar Series 2011 season	Next race: 2011 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach

Previous race: 2010 Indy Grand Prix of Alabama	Indy Grand Prix of Alabama	Next race: 2012 Indy Grand Prix of Alabama

Ganassi		Penske		Andretti Autosport		Panther	D&R
9 Dixon 10 Franchitti	38 Rahal 83 Kimball	3 Castroneves 6 Briscoe	12 Power	7 Patrick 26 Ma. Andretti 27 Conway	28 Hunter–Reay 43 J. Andretti	4 Hildebrand 44 Rice	11 Hamilton 22 Wilson/Scheckter/Pantano/Bell 22/24 Pagenaud 23 Tracy 24 Beatriz
Foyt	Schmidt	KVRT		Coyne	Newman/Haas	HVM	Conquest
14 Meira 41 Junqueira/Hunter-Reay	17 Plowman/Mutoh 17/99 Cunningham 77 Tagliani/Wheldon 88 Howard 99 Bell	5 Sato 59 Viso	82 Kanaan	18 Jakes 19 Bourdais/Lloyd	2 Servià 06 Hinchcliffe	78 de Silvestro/Pagenaud	34 Saavedra/de Oliveira/Battistini 36 Mann
AFS	Fisher		Dragon		SH	Herta	Rahal Letterman Lanigan
17 Matos	57 Scheckter	67 Ed Carpenter	8 Tracy 8/88 Tung	20 Speed/Carpentier	07 Scheckter	98 Wheldon/Tagliani	15 Howard 30 Baguette/Mann

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