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2009 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg

The Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg was the opening round of the 2009 IndyCar Series on April 5, 2009. It was the first time in IndyCar Series history that the season begins on a road course and not an oval. The race saw 4 drivers make their debuts in the championship: Stanton Barrett, Mike Conway, Robert Doornbos and Raphael Matos. The race was contested over 100 laps of the 1.80 mile street course.

Graham Rahal started from the pole but a poor start meant that he dropped back and out of contention for the victory. Defending champion Scott Dixon crashed out on lap 80, a poor start to his defence of the title, which left Penske's Ryan Briscoe to take the chequered flag from Ryan Hunter-Reay who finished 2nd and Justin Wilson who came home 3rd.

Race

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Laps Led	Points
6	AUS Ryan Briscoe	Team Penske	100	2:12:26.8387	4	46	50
21	USA Ryan Hunter-Reay	Vision Racing	100	+ 0.4619	14	0	40
19	UK Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing	100	+ 0.9490	2	52	37
10	UK Dario Franchitti	Chip Ganassi Racing	100	+ 1.5230	5	0	32
11	BRA Tony Kanaan	Andretti Green Racing	100	+ 2.3214	3	0	30
3	AUS Will Power	Team Penske	100	+ 3.4622	6	0	28
02	USA Graham Rahal	Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing	100	+ 4.0672	1	0	27
23	UK Darren Manning	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	100	+ 4.7283	10	0	24
14	BRA Vítor Meira	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	100	+ 5.9559	17	0	22
34	CAN Alex Tagliani	Conquest Racing	99	+ 1 Lap	7	0	20
06	NED Robert Doornbos (R)	Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing	96	+ 4 Laps	13	0	19
98	USA Stanton Barrett (R)	Team 3G	96	+ 4 Laps	21	0	18
26	USA Marco Andretti	Andretti Green Racing	94	Contact	18	2	17
4	UK Dan Wheldon	Panther Racing	86	Contact	11	0	16
27	JPN Hideki Mutoh	Andretti Green Racing	86	Contact	19	0	15
9	NZL Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	80	Contact	8	0	14
13	VEN E. J. Viso	HVM Racing	75	Mechanical	16	0	13
20	USA Ed Carpenter	Vision Racing	71	Contact	22	0	12
7		USA Danica Patrick	Andretti Green Racing	31	Contact	15	0	12
2	BRA Raphael Matos (R)	Luczo-Dragon Racing	31	Contact	9	0	12
5	BRA Mario Moraes	KV Racing Technology	31	Contact	20	0	12
24	UK Mike Conway (R)	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	1	Contact	12	0	12

The race exceeded road racing's traditional two-hour time limit. No reason was given for this.

References

Name_of_race = 2009 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg | Year_of_race = 2009 | Previous_race_in_season = 2008 Nikon Indy 300 | Next_race_in_season = 2009 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach | Previous_year's_race = 2008 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg | Next_year's_race = 2010 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg

References

Carter, Bill. (April 2, 2009). "IndyCar Series rolls into new 17-race season". [[The San Diego Union-Tribune]].
(September 12, 2009). "Dixon favoured for IRL title repeat". [[Sportsnet]].
Stevens, Mike. (April 6, 2009). "Indy Racing League: Aussie Ryan Briscoe wins in Florida". Drive.
"2009 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg". NASCAR Digital Media, LLC.
"NTT IndyCar Series 2009 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Classification". Motorsport Stats.

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