Inside the box score: Barber numbers to note
APR 02, 2012
Some numbers to note following the Honda indy Grand Prix of Alabama, the second of 16 events of the 2012 IZOD Indy Car Series season:
2 – Points separating IZOD IndyCar Series leader Helio Castroneves (86) and Scott Dixon after two events.
3 – Wins for Team Penske at Barber Motorsports Park. The team is the only team to win an IZOD IndyCar Series event there. Second-place finishes by Scott Dixon at Barber Motorsports Park since 2010.
4 – IZOD IndyCar Series drivers who have finished in the top 10 in all three races at Barber Motorsports Park: Will Power, Scott Dixon, Helio Castroneves and Dario Franchitti.
5 – Drivers who have finished in the top 10 in each of the first two IZOD IndyCar Series events: Helio Castroneves, Scott Dixon, Will Power, James Hinchcliffe and Simon Pagenaud.
7 – Different teams represented in the top-10 finishers in the IZOD IndyCar Series standings.
8 – Different teams represented in the top-10 finishers in the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama.
10 – Consecutive races led by Will Power dating to 2011. ... Positions gained by Victor Carbone in the Firestone Indy Lights Grand Prix of Alabama, most of any driver.
13 – Positions gained by Oriol Servia, most of any driver in the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama.
16 – Consecutive top-five starts in Firestone Indy Lights for Esteban Guerrieri, a series record. Guerrieri has never started outside the top five in his Firestone Indy Lights career.
56 – Laps led by Helio Castroneves over the first two events. Castroneves led 34 total laps in 2011.
75 – Laps led by Scott Dixon over the first two events. Dixon led 76 laps through the first seven races in 2011.
1:09.8529 – Lap time set by Will Power in Q1 -- the fastest lap recorded by an IZOD IndyCar Series car at Barber.
122 – Degrees, Fahrenheit. The hottest track temperature recorded during the 90-lap race.
124 – Laps led by Will Power of the 270 total laps raced over the past three seasons at Barber Motorsports Park (46 percent).
183 – Consecutive Indy car starts for Tony Kanaan dating to 2001 CART race in Portland.
52,879 – Fans who attended the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama on race day, according to information released by Zoom Motorsports, the event promoter.
81,378 – Fans who attended the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama event weekend, according to information released by Zoom Motorsports.