The St. Petersburg Scorecard -- 2016

Hey there, Internet! It's Guido, and it's race season in the Verizon IndyCar Series! That means it's time for us to get numerical! Also, my exclamation point quota has now been reached. So, here's the scorecard:


2016 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Scorecard

Finish	Driver	Grid	Led	Completed	A.R.P.	Race Score
1	Montoya	3	44	110	1.96	81.57
2	Pagenaud	1	48	110	1.90	76.82
3	Hunter-Reay	5	3	110	5.03	61.47
4	Castroneves	2	0	110	5.21	52.71
5	Aleshin	17	0	110	10.15	64.92
6	Sato	10	0	110	13.65	45.99
7	Dixon	4	0	110	6.08	45.33
8	Munoz	12	0	110	10.34	47.98
9	Kanaan	19	0	110	12.72	51.94
10	Kimball	13	0	109	8.70	45.67
11	Hawksworth	9	0	109	12.43	31.05
12	Rossi	18	0	109	13.23	40.34
13	Daly	20	15	109	9.22	50.85
14	Pigot	21	0	109	15.24	35.80
15	Andretti	14	0	109	12.82	25.91
16	Rahal	6	0	109	13.41	9.99
17	Chilton	16	0	109	13.38	22.04
18	Servia	22	0	109	16.72	23.02
19	Hinchcliffe	8	0	109	20.37	-6.50
20	Filippi	15	0	108	13.58	11.12
21	Bourdais	7	0	87	13.89	-2.82
22	Newgarden	11	0	47	20.36	-3.90

Quick Hits

Here are the quick hits from St. Pete:

- Get better, Will Power. My tens of loyal readers will know that I have a lot of fun pretending to be an arrogant Power fan. I call him my Australian Overlord, and occasionally throw out a pro wrestling style heel promo or two. Concussions, however, are serious stuff. Power is a major talent, and (as much as I love Oriol Servia) the series is worse with His Overlordship on the sidelines. So, come back soon, Will; and come back healthy.

- To the numbers: there are a couple of interesting groupings here:

1. Daly, Castroneves, & Kanaan right around 50
2. Chilton, Servia, & Andretti in the mid 20s
3. Hinchcliffe, Bourdais, & Newgarden under 0
4. Kimball, Dixon, & Sato in the 45 club

- There are a couple of really cool numbers this week as well:

1. Conor Daly notching a 50.83 back in P13
2. Mikhail Aleshin with zero ring rust scoring 64.92
3. Takuma Sato bringing a car home in P6 that ran P13.65 all day

- Finally, I pretty much never noticed Spencer Pigot or Alexander Rossi on the telecast. They received entirely uninspiring Race Scores. I'm pretty willing to say that this is a good thing. Way to keep your noses clean, rookies! (Oh, look there, my exclamation point works again!)

Stay Tuned

As I said above, we have some time between races. I'm intrigued by some of the stuff above, so expect a bit of a deep dive going forward as we approach Phoenix. Oh yeah! Phoenix! Enjoy it, friends!

-- Guido