Inside the box score: Belle Isle numbers to note
JUN 05, 2012
Numbers to note following the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix, the sixth of 16 events of the 2012 IZOD Indy Car Series season.
2.8 – Average finishing position for Will Power in the five road/street course races in 2012.
3 – Finishing position of Simon Pagenaud in his first IZOD IndyCar Series start at Belle Isle. Pagenaud also finished third in his only sports car start at Belle Isle in 2008.
4 – Drivers to finish every race this season – Ed Carpenter, Dario Franchitti, Simon Pagenaud and E.J. Viso.
6 – Different teams represented in the top 10 in the IZOD IndyCar Series standings…Consecutive seasons with at least one pole position for Scott Dixon.
8 – Consecutive seasons with at least one win for Scott Dixon.
9 – Different drivers to finish on the podium in the first six races of 2012.
12 – Positions gained by Dario Franchitti en route to his runner-up finish at Belle Isle. It was Franchitti’s third consecutive top-five finish. Simona de Silvestro, Tony Kanaan and Charlie Kimball also gained 12 positions.
26 – Points separating Will Power (232) from Scott Dixon (206) in the IZOD IndyCar Series championship standings.
28 – Indy car wins for Scott Dixon, putting him one behind Rick Mears for 10th on the all-time victory list.
73 – Positions gained by Servia in the first six races of 2012 (an average of 12.1 positions per race). Servia gained 11 spots to finish fifth at Belle Isle.
110 – Top five finishes for Dario Franchitti in his Indy car racing career.
187 – Consecutive Indy car starts for Tony Kanaan dating to the 2001 CART race in Portland.
196 – Laps led by Scott Dixon in 2012. Dixon has led five of the six races in 2012, only failing to lead a lap at Long Beach.