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 |