2015 Grand Prix of Indianapolis

United States 2015 GP Indianapolis
Race details
4th round of the 2015 IndyCar Series season

Date	May 9, 2015
Official name	Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis
Location	Indianapolis Motor Speedway Speedway, Indiana
Course	Combined road course 2.439 mi / 3.925 km
Distance	82 laps 200 mi / 321.87 km
Pole position
Driver	Will Power (Team Penske)
Time	1:09.4886
Fastest lap
Driver	James Hinchcliffe (Schmidt Peterson Motorsports)
Time	1:10.8604 (on lap 68 of 82)
Podium
First	Will Power (Team Penske)
Second	Graham Rahal (Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing)
Third	Juan Pablo Montoya (Team Penske)

Motor car race

The 2015 Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis, the second running of the event, was an IndyCar Series held on May 9, 2015, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The fifth round of the 2015 IndyCar Series, it was won by Will Power of Team Penske.^[1] Graham Rahal took second for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing as he did in the previous round and Juan Pablo Montoya (Team Penske) came in third. The top finishing rookie in the race was Stefano Coletti who finished tenth, the highest finish for a rookie up to that point in the 2015 season, snapping Gabby Chaves' streak of being the top rookie finisher in all the previous rounds.

Report

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The logo of 2015 Grand Prix of Indianapolis

Key	Meaning
R	Rookie
W	Past winner

Qualifying

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Pos	No.	Name	Grp.	Round 1	Round 2	Firestone Fast 6
1	1	Australia Will Power	1	1:10.0394	1:09.6443	1:09.4886
2	9	New Zealand Scott Dixon	2	1:09.7798	1:09.9966	1:09.7156
3	3	Brazil Hélio Castroneves	2	1:09.8917	1:09.8773	1:09.7388
4	2	Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya	1	1:10.2695	1:09.9151	1:09.8072
5	22	France Simon Pagenaud W	2	1:10.0145	1:09.7769	1:09.8715
6	10	Brazil Tony Kanaan	2	1:10.2264	1:09.9038	1:10.2772
7	11	France Sébastien Bourdais	2	1:10.2779	1:10.0230
8	17	Colombia Sebastián Saavedra	1	1:10.5573	1:10.1572
9	20	Italy Luca Filippi	1	1:10.3168	1:10.1969
10	4	Monaco Stefano Coletti R	1	1:10.3840	1:10.3679
11	41	United Kingdom Jack Hawksworth	2	1:10.3971	1:10.4558
12	21	United States Josef Newgarden	2	1:10.4283	1:10.8321
13	5	Canada James Hinchcliffe	1	1:10.6273
14	83	United States Charlie Kimball	2	1:10.5031
15	6	United States J. R. Hildebrand	1	1:10.6380
16	98	Colombia Gabby Chaves R	2	1:10.5282
17	15	United States Graham Rahal	1	1:10.6480
18	25	United Kingdom Justin Wilson	2	1:10.5776
19	28	United States Ryan Hunter-Reay	1	1:10.8345
20	7	United Kingdom James Jakes	2	1:10.6749
21	26	Colombia Carlos Muñoz	1	1:10.8786
22	14	Japan Takuma Sato	2	1:10.7391
23	18	Colombia Carlos Huertas	1	1:12.5038
24	27	United States Marco Andretti	2	1:11.1636
25	19	Italy Francesco Dracone R	2	1:12.5814
Qualifications

Race results

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Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Engine & Aero Kit	Laps	Status	Pit Stops	Grid	Laps Led	Pts.¹
1	1	Australia Will Power	Team Penske	Chevrolet	82	1:42:42.0940	3	1	65	54
2	15	United States Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	82	+1.5023	3	17	9	41
3	2	Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya	Team Penske	Chevrolet	82	+7.1967	3	4	35
4	11	France Sébastien Bourdais	KV Racing Technology	Chevrolet	82	+7.7336	3	7	32
5	83	United States Charlie Kimball	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	82	+25.1179	4	14	1	31
6	3	Brazil Hélio Castroneves	Team Penske	Chevrolet	82	+31.7352	4	3	25
7	10	Brazil Tony Kanaan	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	82	+32.3191	3	6	26
8	4	Monaco Stefano Coletti R	KV Racing Technology	Chevrolet	82	+35.3853	3	10	24
9	14	Japan Takuma Sato	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	Honda	82	+40.8267	3	22	22
10	9	New Zealand Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	82	+47.4715	4	2	1	21
11	28	United States Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Honda	82	+48.5410	3	19	19
12	5	Canada James Hinchcliffe	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Honda	82	+49.5461	4	13	4	19
13	26	Colombia Carlos Muñoz	Andretti Autosport	Honda	82	+54.2372	3	21	17
14	20	Italy Luca Filippi	CFH Racing	Chevrolet	82	+54.8713	3	9	16
15	98	Colombia Gabby Chaves R	Bryan Herta Autosport	Honda	82	+1:01.3092	3	16	15
16	27	United States Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Honda	82	+1:07.2448	3	24	14
17	17	Colombia Sebastián Saavedra	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	82	+1:09.2079	4	8	13
18	7	United Kingdom James Jakes	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Honda	81	+1 Lap	4	20	2	13
19	18	Colombia Carlos Huertas	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	81	+1 Lap	4	23	11
20	21	United States Josef Newgarden	CFH Racing	Chevrolet	81	+1 Lap	4	12	10
21	6	United States J. R. Hildebrand	CFH Racing	Chevrolet	81	+1 Lap	4	15	9
22	19	Italy Francesco Dracone R	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	80	+2 Laps	3	25	8
23	41	United Kingdom Jack Hawksworth	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	Honda	69	+13 Laps	6	11	7
24	25	United Kingdom Justin Wilson	Andretti Autosport	Honda	68	Gearbox	2	18	6
25	22	France Simon Pagenaud W	Team Penske	Chevrolet	57	Gearbox	2	5	5
OFFICIAL BOX SCORE

Notes

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All cars ran Dallara chassis with aerokits supplied by their respective engine manufacturer.

This was James Hinchcliffe's final race of the season. On May 18 during the post qualifying practice for the 2015 Indianapolis 500 he would suffer life threatening injuries and miss the remainder of the season.