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Race details
1st round of the 2014 IndyCar Series season

March 30, 2014
Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg
Streets of St. Petersburg
Temporary street circuit1.800 mi / 2.897 km
110 laps198.000 mi / 318.670 km
Takuma Sato (A. J. Foyt Enterprises)
1:01.8686
Will Power (Team Penske)
1:02.3404 (on lap 95 of 110)
Will Power (Team Penske)
Ryan Hunter-Reay (Andretti Autosport)
Hélio Castroneves (Team Penske)
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The 2014 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg was the first race of the 2014 IndyCar Series season, the race took place on March 30 in St. Petersburg, Florida, on the city's temporary street course. The race was won by Will Power for Team Penske. Ryan Hunter-Reay finished second ahead of Hélio Castroneves, Scott Dixon, and Simon Pagenaud. The top finishing rookie in the race was Mikhail Aleshin, in 12th position.

Scott Dixon entered this race as the defending series champion, having won his third Indycar title in the 2013 IndyCar Series season from Hélio Castroneves.

This was the first race for 3 Indycar rookies. Jack Hawksworth raced in the number 98 for Bryan Herta Autosport after moving up from the Indy Lights series. Mikhail Aleshin and Carlos Huertas, who both raced in Formula Renault 3.5 in 2013, made their debuts as well, with Aleshin racing for Schmidt Peterson Hamilton Motorsports and Huertas Dale Coyne Racing. Carlos Muñoz was the 4th rookie in the field with 3 Indycar races in the 2013 IndyCar Series season, most notably the 2013 Indianapolis 500.

Returning to American open wheel racing, since his last race in 2000, is Juan Pablo Montoya, the 1999 CART Champion and the 2000 Indianapolis 500 winner. In 2014 he will drive for Team Penske in the number 2 car.

This was also the first race for Chip Ganassi Racing using Chevrolet engines after the switch from Honda, with Tony Kanaan replacing Dario Franchitti, after his career ending crash in the second Houston race last year. Other drivers racing for a new teams are; Ryan Briscoe with Chip Ganassi Racing, Mike Conway with Ed Carpenter Racing, Sébastien Bourdais and Sebastián Saavedra with KV Racing Technology.

Pos	Name	Grp.	Round 1	Round 2
Takuma Sato	2	1:12.0073	1:03.0131	1:01.8686
Tony Kanaan	1	1:13.4961	1:03.2674	1:02.1637
Ryan Hunter-Reay	1	1:13.7241	1:03.1647	1:02.2167
Will Power	2	1:12.2248	1:03.2183	1:02.3955
Scott Dixon	2	1:12.0083	1:03.3753	1:02.3955
Marco Andretti	1	1:14.7209	1:03.2406	1:02.9595
Carlos Muñoz (R)	2	1:12.0603	1:03.3955
Jack Hawksworth (R)	2	1:12.1556	1:03.5738
Ryan Briscoe	1	1:15.6860	1:03.6206
Hélio Castroneves	1	1:14.8811	1:03.6635
Sebastián Saavedra	2	1:12.3060	1:03.8374
Mike Conway	1	1:13.9450	1:03.9618
Sébastien Bourdais	1	1:15.8337
Simon Pagenaud	2	1:12.3741
Mikhail Aleshin (R)	1	1:15.9111
Justin Wilson	2	1:12.5890
Carlos Huertas (R)	1	1:16.8105
Juan Pablo Montoya	2	1:12.6994
James Hinchcliffe	1	2:34.4862
Charlie Kimball	2	1:13.0048
Graham Rahal	1	no time
Josef Newgarden	2	1:13.1170

Pos	Driver	Team	Engine	Laps	Time/Retired	Pit Stops	Grid	Laps Led	Points1
1	Will Power	Team Penske	Chevrolet	110	2:06:57.6288	3	4	74	53
2	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Honda	110	+ 1.9475	3	3		40
3	Hélio Castroneves	Team Penske	Chevrolet	110	+ 7.8716	3	10	2	36
4	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	110	+ 15.9685	3	5		32
5	Simon Pagenaud	Sam Schmidt Motorsports	Honda	110	+ 17.3937	3	14		30
6	Tony Kanaan	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	110	+ 20.3882	3	2		28
7	Takuma Sato	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	Honda	110	+ 20.8561	3	1	33	28
8	Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	110	+ 21.0622	3	16		24
9	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Honda	110	+ 21.5544	3	22		22
10	Ryan Briscoe	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	110	+ 23.9897	3	9		20
11	Sebastián Saavedra	KV Racing Technology	Chevrolet	110	+ 34.4041	3	17		19
12	Mikhail Aleshin (R)	Sam Schmidt Motorsports	Honda	110	+ 34.9969	5	15		18
13	Sébastien Bourdais	KV Racing Technology	Chevrolet	110	+ 35.3526	4	13		17
14	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	110	+ 38.9881	4	21		16
15	Juan Pablo Montoya	Team Penske	Chevrolet	110	+ 40.3350	4	18		15
16	Mike Conway	Ed Carpenter Racing	Chevrolet	110	+ 40.9140	4	12	1	15
17	Carlos Muñoz (R)	Andretti Autosport	Honda	110	+ 44.6244	4	7		13
18	Carlos Huertas (R)	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	110	+ 47.5637	4	17		12
19	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	Honda	109	+ 1 Lap	3	19		11
20	Charlie Kimball	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	108	+ 2 Laps	4	20		10
21	Jack Hawksworth (R)	Bryan Herta Autosport	Honda	83	Contact	3	8		9
22	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Honda	82	Contact	3	6		8

Notes

1 Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.

Note: Only the top five positions are included.
http://www.imscdn.com/INDYCAR/Documents/2888/2014-03-30/indycar-race-lapfinal.pdf
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/113203
http://www.indycar.com/News/2014/03/3-30-Box-Score-StPete

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