The Long Beach Scorecard -- 2016

Hey there Internet!! The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach was yesterday, that means it's time for the Scoring Indy Scorecard / Quick Hits. Here we go!!


The Scorecard

Finish	Driver	Grid	Led	Completed	A.R.P.	Race Score
1	Pagenaud	3	28	80	1.99	79.80
2	Dixon	2	2	80	2.60	63.37
3	Castroneves	1	47	80	1.93	78.58
4	Montoya	5	0	80	5.23	56.71
5	Sato	8	0	80	6.89	55.52
6	Kanaan	4	0	80	4.83	49.63
7	Power	6	0	80	5.60	48.33
8	Hinchcliffe	7	0	80	7.94	43.03
9	Bourdais	14	0	80	11.96	44.14
10	Newgarden	9	0	80	10.11	36.40
11	Kimball	15	3	80	12.86	39.27
12	Munoz	10	0	80	12.13	28.52
13	Daly	13	0	80	13.36	28.00
14	Chilton	19	0	80	17.66	27.16
15	Rahal	17	0	80	12.01	29.99
16	Aleshin	18	0	80	15.81	22.38
17	Filippi	12	0	80	16.16	9.63
18	Hunter-Reay	11	0	80	15.53	6.02
19	Andretti	21	0	79	18.14	13.81
20	Rossi	16	0	79	17.49	4.25
21	Hawksworth	20	0	77	20.74	2.05

Quick Hits

- Kimball made the best of the (rarely invoked) three-stop strategy, putting up the best Race Score number outside of P1-9. We'll take a deeper look in the Number Dives (Phoenix and Long Beach are getting combined).

- Drivers who out-performed their equipment (Finishing higher than ARP): Montoya, Sato, Kimball, Bourdais, Chilton. Low numbers are to be expected in such an un-eventful (and I'm not saying it like that's a bad thing) race.

- The one of those, who really surprised me, was Chilton. I thought he had a bad race. The numbers look mighty good. Well, they look mighty good for P14.

- The "boring" (again, not a bad thing for me) nature of the race probably contributed to Takuma Sato's sterling performance. We'll also put the "Sato Theory" to the test when we do the Number Dives.


Stay Tuned

Number Dives later this week. Barber this weekend. And, I'm the undisputed twisty king of Blogger Alley on the Indycar fantasy game. We don't need to talk about the ovals... See you soon, Internet!

-- Guido