2006 Toyota Indy 300

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The layout of Homestead-Miami Speedway

The 2006 Toyota Indy 300 was the first round of the 2006 IndyCar Series season, held on March 26, 2006 on the Homestead-Miami Speedway and covered by ABC. The race was marred by a violent crash in the final practice session. Paul Dana was killed in the crash and teammates Danica Patrick and Buddy Rice withdrew from the race to honor his memory. He was the third driver to lose his life in the IRL. Ed Carpenter who was crashed into by Dana's car was also injured, but recovered.

Qualifying results[]

Pos Nat Name Team Lap 1 Lap 2 Qual Time
1 United States Sam Hornish Jr. Team Penske 24.4625 24.4722 24.4625
2 Brazil Hélio Castroneves Team Penske 24.5131 24.5175 24.5131
3 United States Danica Patrick Rahal Letterman Racing Team 24.7384 24.6589 24.6589
4 New Zealand Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing 24.7384 24.6589 24.6589
5 Brazil Tony Kanaan Andretti Green Racing 24.7578 24.7296 24.7296
6 United States Buddy Rice Rahal Letterman Racing Team 24.7720 24.7600 24.7600
7 United Kingdom Dario Franchitti Andretti Green Racing 24.7664 24.7731 24.7664
8 United Kingdom Dan Wheldon Chip Ganassi Racing 24.8417 24.7725 24.7725
9 United States Paul Dana Rahal Letterman Racing Team 24.8160 24.7967 24.7967
10 Brazil Felipe Giaffone A. J. Foyt Enterprises 24.8117 24.8574 24.8117
11 United States Bryan Herta Andretti Green Racing 24.9775 24.8192 24.8192
12 South Africa Tomas Scheckter Vision Racing 24.8567 24.8337 24.8337
13 United States Ed Carpenter Vision Racing 24.8692 24.8399 24.8399
14 Japan Kosuke Matsuura Super Aguri Fernandez Racing 24.8467 24.8432 24.8432
15 United States Scott Sharp Super Aguri Fernandez Racing 24.9285 24.8896 24.8896
16 United States Eddie Cheever Jr. Cheever Racing 25.0998 24.9690 24.9690
17 United States Marco Andretti Andretti Green Racing 24.9813 25.0022 24.9813
18 United States Buddy Lazier Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 24.9878 No time 24.9878
19 Brazil Vítor Meira Panther Racing 25.0320 24.9892 24.9892
20 United States P. J. Chesson Hemelgarn Racing 25.2025 25.2439 25.2439

Race results[]

Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Laps Lead Points
1 10 United Kingdom Dan Wheldon Chip Ganassi Racing 200 1:46:14
167.73 mph 		6 8 50
2 3 Brazil Hélio Castroneves Team Penske 200 +0.015 secs 2 42 40
3 6 United States Sam Hornish Jr. Team Penske 200 Running 1 145 38
4 27 United Kingdom Dario Franchitti Andretti Green Racing 200 Running 5 0 32
5 9 New Zealand Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing 200 Running 3 0 30
6 55 Japan Kosuke Matsuura Super Aguri Fernandez Racing 198 + 2 Laps 10 3 28
7 8 United States Scott Sharp Super Aguri Fernandez Racing 198 + 2 Laps 11 2 24
8 14 Brazil Felipe Giaffone A. J. Foyt Enterprises 198 + 2 Laps 4 0 24
9 2 South Africa Tomas Scheckter Vision Racing 197 + 3 Laps 16 0 22
10 51 United States Eddie Cheever Jr. Cheever Racing 196 + 4 Laps 12 0 20
11 11 Brazil Tony Kanaan Andretti Green Racing 159 Crash 4 0 19
12 2 United States P. J. Chesson Hemelgarn Racing 152 Accident 8 0 18
13 7 United States Bryan Herta Andretti Green Racing 140 Crash 11 0 17
14 5 United States Buddy Lazier Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 12 Electrical 14 0 16
15 26 United States Marco Andretti Andretti Green Racing 12 Halfshaft 13 0 15
16 4 Brazil Vítor Meira Panther Racing 10 Engine 15 0 14
17 16 United States Danica Patrick Rahal Letterman Racing Team 0 Withdrawn 17 0 7
18 15 United States Buddy Rice Rahal Letterman Racing Team 0 Withdrawn 18 0 6
19 17 United States Paul Dana Rahal Letterman Racing Team 0 Fatal Practice Crash 19 0 6
20 20 United States Ed Carpenter Vision Racing 0 Practice Crash 20 0 6

Caution flags[]

  • Caution 1: Laps 10-20 (11) - Smoke: Car 4
  • Caution 2: Laps 106-111 (6) - Debris: Turn 4
  • Caution 3: Laps 162-168 (7) - Stall: Car 91, Contact: Car 11
  • Caution 4: Laps 170-177 (8) - Contact: Car 7 in Turn 1

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