Chevrolet Turbo V6 Reigns Supreme at 2012 Toyota Grand Prix Indy Car Race

[mbukukanyau]

POS	DRIVER	CAR	MANUFACTURER	LAPS	START	LED	PTS	BONUS	PENALTY
1	Will Power	12	Chevrolet	85	12	15	50	0	0
2	Simon Pagenaud	77	Honda	85	4	26	42	2	0
3	James Hinchcliffe	27	Chevrolet	85	16	0	35	0	0
4	Tony Kanaan	11	Chevrolet	85	19	0	32	0	0
5	JR Hildebrand	4	Chevrolet	85	20	0	30	0	0
6	Ryan Hunter-Reay	28	Chevrolet	85	13	4	28	0	0
7	Ryan Briscoe	2	Chevrolet	85	11	5	27	1	0
8	Takuma Sato	15	Honda	84	6	16	24	0	0
9	Rubens Barrichello	8	Chevrolet	84	22	0	22	0	0
10	Justin Wilson	18	Honda	84	3	15	20	0	0
11	James Jakes	19	Honda	84	14	0	19	0	0
12	E.J. Viso	5	Chevrolet	84	15	0	18	0	0
13	Helio Castroneves	3	Chevrolet	84	18	0	17	0	0
14	Ed Carpenter	20	Chevrolet	83	24	0	16	0	0
15	Dario Franchitti	10	Honda	82	1	4	15	0	0
16	Oriol Servia	22	Lotus	82	23	0	14	0	0
17	Sebastien Bourdais	7	Lotus	82	25	0	13	0	0
18	Charlie Kimball	83	Honda	80	9	0	12	0	0
19	Katherine Legge	6	Lotus	80	26	0	12	0	0
20	Simona De Silvestro	78	Lotus	74	17	0	12	0	0
21	Alex Tagliani	98	Lotus	46	10	0	12	0	0
22	Mike Conway	14	Honda	41	7	0	12	0	0
23	Scott Dixon	9	Honda	27	5	0	12	0	0
24	Graham Rahal	38	Honda	23	8	0	12	0	0
25	Marco Andretti	26	Chevrolet	22	21	0	10	0	0
26	Josef Newgarden	67	Honda	0	2	0	10	0	0

http://espn.go.com/racing/raceresult...d/201204150742

[derek77]

If you didn't get a chance to watch this race, it is being re-aired today (April 16) at 4pm on NBC Sports Network.

Amazing results for Chevrolet considering what happened to them (themselves really) leading up to the racing. Then practice getting rained out on Friday making Saturdays one practice time crucial. Chevrolet didn't make up those spots on luck alone. They had the speed and good strategy to make up those spots. The whole race was filled with good hard racing in the concrete lined street course of Long Beach. Great race!

[DBeaSSt]

Nice job Chevy.

No toy-Ota's in the Toyota Grand Prix Indy Car Race huh. Interesting.

[derek77]

Nice job Chevy.

No toy-Ota's in the Toyota Grand Prix Indy Car Race huh. Interesting.

Toyota actually renewed their sponsorship AFTER they left CART. Must be worth it to them. Makes you wonder why you don't see the KIA Daytona 500 or something like that.

[63GrandSport001]

Watching qualifying the Chevrolets just had more speed then the Honda engine cars. Five out of the top six were Chevy powered however they lost ten spots due to an engine change before one thousand two hundred miles. Though number sixty seven and seventy seven prove to be really fast Hondas at the event. Though at the end of the day the results make perfect sense even though a Honda during race day was the fastest car on the field.

[Suziebob]

I loved at the end of the race when the lead Chevrolet car was running around and the announcers are like "Honda has got to be like 'but we spotted them 10 spots! How does this happen!'"

If I were Chevrolet, I'd be pouring money into a nationalistic #RetakeIndy campaign.

[Chassis Guy]

I loved at the end of the race when the lead Chevrolet car was running around and the announcers are like "Honda has got to be like 'but we spotted them 10 spots! How does this happen!'"

If I were Chevrolet, I'd be pouring money into a nationalistic #RetakeIndy campaign.

^Yes...

[supraracer]

I loved at the end of the race when the lead Chevrolet car was running around and the announcers are like "Honda has got to be like 'but we spotted them 10 spots! How does this happen!'"

If I were Chevrolet, I'd be pouring money into a nationalistic #RetakeIndy campaign.

The gas mileage that the Chevy engine is getting compared to the Honda is pretty incredible also. Fun race.

[mbukukanyau]

Nice job Chevy.

No toy-Ota's in the Toyota Grand Prix Indy Car Race huh. Interesting.

Its not lost to the race fans, Toyota would loose in a race like this.

[BigityBalzworth]

yep, that makes chevy 3 for 3. Even after every single chevy car was penalized by starting way back, 8 of the top ten cars were chevy's. I love it!

[JerryL]

Good job by Chevy....but the replay of the race rather than it being live was a doner.

[supraracer]

Good job by Chevy....but the replay of the race rather than it being live was a doner.

It was live. It was on the NBCSports channel Sunday at 3:30pm. Not every TV provider carries it, but fortunately FIOS does.