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OFFICIAL STARTING LINEUP FOR INDIANAPOLIS 500

May 23, 2010

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — Results of qualifying Sunday for the 2010 Indianapolis 500 IZOD IndyCar Series event on the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with Rank, car number in parentheses, driver, chassis-engine, time and speed in parentheses:

1. (3) Helio Castroneves, Dallara-Honda, 02:38.7485 (226.774)

2. (12) Will Power, Dallara-Honda, 02:39.0024 (226.412)

3. (77) Alex Tagliani, Dallara-Honda, 02:39.0163 (226.392)

4. (10T) Dario Franchitti, Dallara-Honda, 02:39.1825 (226.156)

5. (9) Scott Dixon, Dallara-Honda, 02:39.4367 (225.795)

6. (30) Graham Rahal, Dallara-Honda, 02:39.5627 (225.617)

7. (06) Hideki Mutoh, Dallara-Honda, 02:39.6998 (225.423)

8. (6) Ryan Briscoe, Dallara-Honda, 02:39.7409 (225.365)

9. (20) Ed Carpenter, Dallara-Honda, 02:39.8817 (225.166)

10. (99) Townsend Bell, Dallara-Honda, 02:39.9313 (225.097)

11. (22) Justin Wilson, Dallara-Honda, 02:39.9647 (225.050)

12. (2) Raphael Matos, Dallara-Honda, 02:39.9798 (225.028)

13. (32) Mario Moraes, Dallara-Honda, 02:40.0794 (224.888)

14. (21) Davey Hamilton, Dallara-Honda, 02:40.1053 (224.852)

15. (24) Mike Conway, Dallara-Honda, 02:40.2969 (224.583)

16. (26) Marco Andretti, Dallara-Honda, 02:40.3030 (224.575)

17. (37) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Dallara-Honda, 02:40.3227 (224.547)

18. (4) Dan Wheldon, Dallara-Honda, 02:40.3821 (224.464)

19. (8T) EJ Viso, Dallara-Honda, 02:40.4424 (224.380)

20. (23) Tomas Scheckter, Dallara-Honda, 02:40.5270 (224.261)

21. (25) Ana Beatriz, Dallara-Honda, 02:40.5402 (224.243)

22. (78) Simona de Silvestro, Dallara-Honda, 02:40.5511 (224.228)

23. (7) Danica Patrick, Dallara-Honda, 02:40.5584 (224.217)

24. (36) Bertrand Baguette, Dallara-Honda, 02:40.5785 (224.189)

25. (33) Bruno Junqueira, Dallara-Honda, 02:39.5305 (225.662)

26. (19) Alex Lloyd, Dallara-Honda, 02:40.1543 (224.783)

27. (34) Mario Romancini, Dallara-Honda, 02:40.2557 (224.641)

28. (43) John Andretti, Dallara-Honda, 02:40.3438 (224.518)

29. (67) Sarah Fisher, Dallara-Honda, 02:40.4033 (224.434)

30. (14) Vitor Meira, Dallara-Honda, 02:40.4367 (224.388)

31. (5) Takuma Sato, Dallara-Honda, 02:40.5865 (224.178)

32. (11T) Tony Kanaan, Dallara-Honda, 02:40.6628 (224.072)

33. (29) Sebastian Saavedra, Dallara-Honda, 02:40.9776 (223.634)

Sato's car is a Dallara? Is Lotus putting its name on a Dallar chassis?

Looking at the names for the line up is it any wonder that type of racing has lost its following?

Grady

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Here are some stats from the 1990 Indy 500:

Box score

Finish - No - Name - Qual - Laps
1. 30 Arie Luyendyk 223.304 200
2. 18 Bobby Rahal 222.694 200
3. 1 Emerson Fittipaldi 225.301 200
4. 5 Al Unser, Jr. 220.92 199
5. 2 Rick Mears 224.215 198
6. 14 A.J. Foyt 220.425 194
7. 22 Scott Brayton 215.028 194
8. 25 Eddie Cheever 217.925 193
9. 11 Kevin Cogan 217.738 191
10. 28 Scott Goodyear 213.622 191
11. 70 Didier Theys 214.033 190
12. 23 Tero Palmroth 217.423 188
13. 40 Al Unser 212.086 186
14. 12 Randy Lewis 218.412 186
15. 15 Jim Crawford 212.201 183
16. 93 John Paul, Jr. 214.411 176
17. 39 Dean Hall 216.975 165
18. 4 Teo Fabi 220.022 162
19. 21 Geoff Brabham 216.58 161
20. 3 Michael Andretti 222.055 146
21. 41 John Andretti 219.484 136
22. 86 Dominic Dobson 219.23 129
23. 20 Roberto Guerrero 212.652 118
24. 81 Billy Vukovich III 211.389 102
25. 56 Rocky Moran 211.076 88
26. 16 Tony Bettenhausen, Jr. 218.369 76
27. 6 Mario Andretti 222.025 60
28. 19 Raul Boesel 217.381 60
29. 29 Pancho Carter 213.156 59
30. 9 Tom Sneva 216.142 48
31. 51 Gary Bettenhausen 217.264 39
32. 7 Danny Sullivan 220.31 19
33. 97 Stan Fox 213.812 10

Failed to Qualify
Jeff Andretti (#98) — Bumped
Steve Barclay (#51)
Steve Chassey (#93/#96)
Guido Daccò (#66)
Mike Groff (#10/#50) — Bumped
Bernard Jourdain (#69) —
Buddy Lazier (#91) — Bumped
Johnny Rutherford (#17T/#23) — Bumped
George Snider (#51) — Withdrew, replaced
Rich Vogler (#8/#12) —
Salt Walther (#77) — Withdrew
Jeff Wood (#44)

Putting aside for a moment that I'm noting the race 20 years ago had a number of guys I vaguely remember even then (boy that Tero Palmroth could back er in at Terre Haute!), it looks to me like it's a lot tougher to make the race now than then. This year there is a 3 mph difference between 1st and 33rd. 20 years ago there was a 12 mph difference. I'd say the biggest thing that stands out to me is that 20 years ago almost a 1/3rd of the field was former winners of the race (with 1 former and 1 future winner not making the cut) and this year there is 4? (by my rough count). Interesting that former Gardner Motorsports sprint car driver John Andretti is in both fields.