Four (Five) drivers to incur grid penalties for Baltimore

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09/01/12
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Four (Five) drivers to incur grid penalties for Baltimore UPDATE The #83 entry of Chip Ganassi Racing driven by Charlie Kimball has also been issued a 10 spot grid penalty in Baltimore for not complying with Rule 15.5.1. That makes five drivers who will be set back.

08/31/12 IZOD IndyCar Series officials announced penalties for the following cars for this weekend’s event at Baltimore. All cars will be penalized 10 grid places for unapproved engine changes:

No. 14 ABC Supply car for A.J. Foyt Racing (Mike Conway) -- fitting sixth engine

No. 15 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (Takuma Sato) -- fitting seventh engine

No. 67 Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing (Bruno Junqueira) -- fitting sixth engine

No. 78 Nuclear Clean Air Energy Lotus HVM Racing (Simona de Silvestro) -- carry-over for fitting seventh engine at Sonoma.

INDYCAR provided the following update regarding the status of fresh engines remaining for each team for the remaining two races of the IZOD IndyCar Series season:

Car	Team	Driver	Engine Count
2	Team Penske	Ryan Briscoe	On Engine 5
3	Team Penske	Helio Castroneves	On Engine 5
4	Panther Racing	JR Hildebrand	On Engine 4 - 1 Engine Remaining
5	KV Racing Technology	EJ Viso	On Engine 4 - 1 Engine Remaining
6/7	Dragon Racing	Katherine Legge & Sebastien Bourdais	On Engine 5
8	KV Racing Technology	Rubens Barrichello	On Engine 5
9	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Scott Dixon	On Engine 6
10	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dario Franchitti	On Engine 4 - 1 Engine Remaining
11	KV Racing Technology w/ SH	Tony Kanaan	On Engine 4 - 1 Engine Remaining
12	Team Penske	Will Power	On Engine 5
14	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Mike Conway	Will use Engine 6 at Baltimore
15	Rahal Letterman Lanigan	Takuma Sato	Will use Engine 7 at Sonoma
18	Dale Coyne Racing	Justin Wilson	On Engine 5
19	Dale Coyne Racing	James Jakes	On Engine 4 - 1 Engine Remaining
20	Ed Carpenter Racing	Ed Carpenter	On Engine 5
22	Panther / Dreyer & Reinbold	Oriol Servia	On Engine 4 - 1 Engine Remaining
26	Andretti Autosport	Marco Andretti	On Engine 5
27	Andretti Autosport	James Hinchcliffe	On Engine 5
28	Andretti Autosport	Ryan Hunter-Reay	On Engine 5
38	Service Central Chip Ganassi Racing	Graham Rahal	On Engine 5
67	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Josef Newgarden	Will use Engine 6 at Baltimore
77	Schmidt Hamilton HP Motorsports	Simon Pagenaud	On Engine 5
78	Lotus-HVM Racing	Simona de Silvestro	On Engine 7
83	Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing	Charlie Kimball	On Engine 5
98	Bryan Herta Autosport w/ Curb-Agajanian	Alex Tagliani	On Engine 5

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