Angie's List GP of Indianapolis Scorecard
Here's how things shook out on one of only two FIA Grade 1 road courses in the USA a couple weeks ago:
| Finish | Driver | Grid | Led | Completed | A.R.P | Race Score |
| 1 | Power | 1 | 65 | 82 | 1.61 | 92.28 |
| 2 | Rahal | 17 | 9 | 82 | 2.95 | 86.39 |
| 3 | Montoya | 4 | 0 | 82 | 4.76 | 60.33 |
| 4 | Bourdais | 7 | 0 | 82 | 4.00 | 62.67 |
| 5 | Kimball | 14 | 1 | 82 | 10.50 | 61.07 |
| 6 | Castroneves | 3 | 0 | 82 | 11.56 | 41.92 |
| 7 | Kanaan | 6 | 0 | 82 | 11.01 | 43.98 |
| 8 | Coletti | 10 | 0 | 82 | 8.65 | 49.80 |
| 9 | Sato | 22 | 0 | 82 | 13.11 | 57.19 |
| 10 | Dixon | 2 | 1 | 82 | 16.87 | 23.25 |
| 11 | Hunter-Reay | 19 | 0 | 82 | 14.28 | 46.29 |
| 12 | Hinchcliffe | 13 | 4 | 82 | 10.71 | 42.02 |
| 13 | Munoz | 21 | 0 | 82 | 13.67 | 44.44 |
| 14 | Filippi | 9 | 0 | 82 | 14.10 | 25.20 |
| 15 | Chaves | 16 | 0 | 82 | 11.66 | 35.12 |
| 16 | Andretti | 24 | 0 | 82 | 18.8 | 33.59 |
| 17 | Saavedra | 8 | 0 | 82 | 20.10 | 7.87 |
| 18 | Jakes | 20 | 2 | 81 | 12.57 | 31.79 |
| 19 | Huertas | 23 | 0 | 81 | 15.84 | 27.98 |
| 20 | Newgarden | 12 | 0 | 81 | 23.25 | 1.09 |
| 21 | Hildebrand | 15 | 0 | 81 | 10.56 | 19.11 |
| 22 | Dracone | 25 | 0 | 80 | 21.71 | 14.81 |
| 23 | Hawksworth | 11 | 0 | 69 | 23.41 | -6.55 |
| 24 | Wilson | 18 | 0 | 68 | 17.68 | 5.24 |
| 25 | Pagenaud | 5 | 0 | 57 | 4.04 | 3.15 |
There are more than a couple interesting things to look at here in the scorecard, while we're still on the road course:
- Both Rahal and Power had transcendent drives. Some races don't have ave single driver weigh in at a Race Score of over 85. This time, we had two.
- You can also see respectable scores scattered throughout the field, with Hunter-Reay, Munoz, and Hinchcliffe (#GetWellSoonHinch) giving us a cluseter of 40+ Race Scores outside the Top 10.
- Also, you can put me down as officially 1 for 2 with my "pet drivers" declaration before the GP. Rahal owned it. Saavedra did not.
- Finally, all hail his Overlordship. I'm sorry I ever doubted you, Will.
RSWC Update
Let's also take a quick look at the table for the Race Score World Championship:
| Driver | STP | NOLA | LBH | ALA | IMS | Total |
| Montoya | 8 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 25 | |
| Power | 10 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 24 | |
| Rahal | 3 | 8 | 8 | 21 | ||
| Castroneves | 4 | 4 | 8 | 16 | ||
| Dixon | 10 | 4 | 14 | |||
| Hinchcliffe | 10 | 3 | 13 | |||
| Newgarden | 1 | 2 | 10 | 13 | ||
| Bourdais | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 11 | |
| Kanaan | 6 | 4 | 10 | |||
| Pagenaud | 2 | 6 | 8 | |||
| Hunter-Reay | 6 | 1 | 7 | |||
| Jakes | 6 | 6 | ||||
| de Silvestro | 5 | 5 | ||||
| Hawksworth | 5 | 5 | ||||
| Munoz | 5 | 5 | ||||
| Kimball | 5 | 5 | ||||
| Sato | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Coletti | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Andretti | 1 | 1 |
- The fluky nature of this year's Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis is fully on display here, with the GP of Indy having fully three unique points scorers. That's far more than any other race.
- Only three people have notched points in all but one race this year: Juan Pablo Montoya, Will Power, and Sebastien Bourdais. In my book, that's a testament to Bourdais. He might finally be figuring out this whole unified IndyCar series thing. And, that's a VERY good thing.
- Finally, we're going to clean up the the RSWC Table after the Indy 500. Starting next week, to be classified on the table, a driver will need to have scored points in multiple races in order to be shown on the table. That'll jump up to needing points in three races after Fontana, and four after Pocono: heading into the season finale. Then, after Sonoma, we'll show the whole table again.
2015 Indianapolis 500 Preview
| Finish | Driver | Grid | Led | Completed | A.R.P | Race Score |
| 1 | Hunter-Reay | 19 | 56 | 200 | 4.86 | 90.29 |
| 2 | Castroneves | 4 | 38 | 200 | 3.41 | 71.58 |
| 3 | Andretti | 6 | 20 | 200 | 4.06 | 67.92 |
| 4 | Munoz | 9 | 0 | 200 | 8.37 | 61.24 |
| 5 | Montoya | 10 | 16 | 200 | 8.48 | 62.79 |
| 6 | Busch | 12 | 0 | 200 | 14.35 | 54.19 |
| 7 | Bourdais | 17 | 0 | 200 | 13.74 | 57.84 |
| 8 | Power | 3 | 22 | 200 | 7.66 | 51.49 |
| 9 | Karam | 31 | 0 | 200 | 16.15 | 65.51 |
| 10 | Hildebrand | 9 | 0 | 200 | 9.33 | 48.16 |
| 11 | Servia | 18 | 0 | 200 | 18.28 | 46.18 |
| 12 | Pagenaud | 5 | 0 | 200 | 15.1 | 34.24 |
| 13 | Tagliani | 24 | 3 | 200 | 21.87 | 45.08 |
| 14 | Villeneuve | 27 | 0 | 200 | 23.71 | 43.73 |
| 15 | Saavedra | 32 | 0 | 200 | 23.31 | 47.16 |
| 16 | Davison | 28 | 0 | 200 | 22.94 | 41.47 |
| 17 | Huertas | 21 | 0 | 200 | 25.12 | 30.19 |
| 18 | Briscoe | 20 | 0 | 200 | 25.04 | 27.23 |
| 19 | Sato | 23 | 0 | 200 | 16.01 | 37.37 |
| 20 | Hawksworth | 13 | 0 | 200 | 21.28 | 19.92 |
| 21 | Aleshin | 15 | 1 | 198 | 21.81 | 19.49 |
| 22 | Wilson | 14 | 0 | 198 | 14.15 | 23.97 |
| 23 | Plowman | 29 | 0 | 186 | 27.94 | 22.44 |
| 24 | Mann | 22 | 0 | 193 | 27.22 | 14.76 |
| 25 | Bell | 25 | 0 | 190 | 10.90 | 31.26 |
| 26 | Kanaan | 16 | 1 | 177 | 23.26 | 8.89 |
| 27 | Carpenter | 1 | 26 | 175 | 4.77 | 13.72 |
| 28 | Hinchcliffe | 2 | 14 | 175 | 6.45 | 9.48 |
| 29 | Dixon | 11 | 3 | 167 | 5.56 | 14.28 |
| 30 | Newgarden | 8 | 0 | 156 | 15.99 | 0.90 |
| 31 | Kimball | 26 | 0 | 149 | 21.85 | 8.41 |
| 32 | Lazier | 33 | 0 | 87 | 30.16 | 4.15 |
| 33 | Rahal | 20 | 0 | 44 | 30.25 | -1.05 |
Here are my thoughts about the 2014 500 in lists of three things:
- Surprising results: Servia, Karam, and Bourdais
- Saddening results: Rahal, Carpeter, and Dixon
- Better than the car: Busch, Bourdais, Karam
- Even better than the car: Villeneuve, Tagliani, Saavedra
Some Fun with the 2015 Field of 33
So, since this is a Mega-Post I figure I should take a little time to do some more with the 2015 Indy 500 field. So, here it is. I'll take the eleven rows of three, and give each row a nickname, and pick a winner from that row. That way, I get 11 chances to be right.
Row 1: Dixon, Power, Pagenaud
Nickname: The Usual Suspects
Winner: Scott Dixon
Row 2: Kanaan, Castroneves, Wilson
Nickname: The Land of the Unexpected Honda
Winner: Helio Castroneves
Row 3: Bourdais, Andretti, Newgarden
Nickname: The Outsiders
Winner: Marco Andretti
Row 4: Hildebrand, Munoz, Carpenter
Nickname: The Hard Luck Gang
Winner: Ed Carpeter
Row 5: Servia, Kimball, Montoya
Nickname: One of these Things is not Like the Others
Winner: Juan Pablo Montoya
Row 6: Hunter-Reay, Rahal, De Silvestro
Nickname: Where the Hondas Went
Winner: Graham Rahal
Row 7: Jakes, Tagliani, Karam
Nickname: The B Team
Winner: Sage Karam
Row 8: Daly, Bell, Sato
Nickname: The Expected-Betters
Winner: Townsend Bell
Row 9: Mann, Chaves, Saavedra
Nickname: The Hopefuls
Winner: Pippa Mann
Row 10: Hawksworth, Coletti, Clauson
Nickname: The Longshots
Winner: Stefano Coletti
Row 11: Briscoe, Vautier, Davison
Nickname: The Replacements
Winner: Ryan Briscoe
Stay Tuned
Well, there it is. Get excited, the 500 is upon us! Be sure to follow me @ScoringIndy on Twitter. I've already made one "carburetor" joke today! See you next week!
-- Guido
