2011 Kentucky Indy 300

2011 Kentucky

Race details
17th round of the 2011 IndyCar Series season
Date	October 2, 2011
Official name	Kentucky Indy 300
Location	Kentucky Speedway, Sparta, Kentucky
Course	Permanent racing facility 1.480 mi / 2.382 km
Distance	200 laps 296 mi / 476.366 km
Weather	76°F, overcast
Pole position
Driver	Will Power (Verizon Team Penske)
Time	24.2910
Fastest lap
Driver	Ed Carpenter (Dollar General/Sarah Fisher Racing)
Time	24.3847 (on lap 73 of 200)
Podium
First	Ed Carpenter (Dollar General/Sarah Fisher Racing)
Second	Dario Franchitti (Downy/Chip Ganassi)
Third	Scott Dixon (Target Chip Ganassi Racing)

The 2011 Kentucky Indy 300 was the twelfth running of the Kentucky Indy 300 and the seventeenth round of the 2011 IndyCar Series season. It took place on Sunday, October 2, 2011. The race contested over 200 laps at the 1.480-mile (2.382 km) Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Kentucky.

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Dan Wheldon, whose only race to date in the 2011 IndyCar series had been his win at the Indianapolis 500, replaced Alex Tagliani in the Sam Schmidt Motorsports #77 car.^[1]

Row	Inside		Outside
1	12	Will Power	38	Graham Rahal
2	06	James Hinchcliffe (R)	67	Ed Carpenter
3	4	J.R. Hildebrand (R)	26	Marco Andretti
4	9	Scott Dixon	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay
5	2	Oriol Servià	83	Charlie Kimball (R)
6	10	Dario Franchitti	27	Mike Conway
7	78	Simona de Silvestro	7	Danica Patrick
8	17	Wade Cunningham (R)	3	Hélio Castroneves
9	44	Buddy Rice	6	Ryan Briscoe
10	82	Tony Kanaan	24	Ana Beatriz (R)
11	14	Vítor Meira	5	Takuma Sato
12	59	E.J. Viso	19	Alex Lloyd
13	34	Dillon Battistini (R)	22	Townsend Bell
14	18	James Jakes (R)	77	Dan Wheldon †
15	30	Pippa Mann

† Did not qualify.

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