Inside the box score: Texas-sized numbers to note
JUN 11, 2012
Numbers to note following the Firestone 550, the seventh of 16 events of the 2012 IZOD Indy Car Series season:
3 – Drivers to finish every race this season – Ed Carpenter, Dario Franchitti and Simon Pagenaud.
6 – Different teams represented in the top 10 in the IZOD IndyCar Series standings.
12 – Different drivers to finish on the podium in the first seven races of 2012.
14 – Different drivers with at least one top-five finish in 2012.
18 – Positions gained by JR Hildebrand en route to his fifth-place finish at Texas, most of any driver in the field.
36 – Points separating Will Power (256) from Scott Dixon (220) in the IZOD IndyCar Series championship standings.
42 – Starts between wins for Justin Wilson. His last victory was with Dale Coyne Racing at Watkins Glen International in 2009.
188 – Consecutive Indy car starts for Tony Kanaan dating to the 2001 CART race in Portland.
329 – Laps led by Scott Dixon in 2012. Dixon has led six of the seven races in 2012, only failing to lead a lap at Long Beach.
837 – Laps completed by Simon Pagenaud in 2012. Pagenaud has completed all but one lap in 2012, finishing one lap down at Sao Paulo.