2020 Grand Prix of Indianapolis IndyCar race results

This race, which normally signals the start of the ‘Month of May’ at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, was shifted backwards by two months due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Penske’s Will Power led from pole, ahead of Jack Harvey, Graham Rahal, Colton Herta and Josef Newgarden, as seventh-placed qualifier Dixon jumped up a spot at the first corner to run sixth. Fifth-placed qualifier Oliver Askew lost places in the early going, dropping to eighth.

Dixon went off strategy, pitting on Lap 11 to take the alternate tires and committed to a three-stop strategy. Power pitted on Lap 17, but the car to watch was Rahal, who stayed out to lead during a long first stint which put him on a two-stop strategy.

All race strategies were impacted by Askew losing control of the rear-end of his car at the final corner just before half distance and slamming the wall. The full-course caution that followed played into the hands of Dixon, who had just pitted. At the restart, he charged his way to the front, passing Rahal for the lead on Lap 48.

The yellow meant Power slipped back to 14^th and he became mired in traffic while Dixon was charging away out front. Power’s victory chances were totally finished when he stalled after his final pitstop.

Rahal pitted for fresh red tires with 25 laps to go, so Dixon covered him a lap later for his final pitstop, rejoining on scuffed reds. Dixon cruised to the finish, despite losing the air hose to his helmet, and he beat Rahal by 20s.

After a disappointing qualifying, last year’s Indy GP and Indy 500 winner Simon Pagenaud switched to a three-stop strategy early on and the timing of the yellow fell into his hands. He finished third, right behind Rahal, ahead of Herta and the impressive rookie Rinus Veekay.

Grand Prix of Indianapolis IndyCar race results

Cla	Driver	Team	Laps	Time	Gap
1	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	80	1:41'59.323
2	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	80	1:42'19.270	19.946
3	Simon Pagenaud	Team Penske	80	1:42'19.887	20.564
4	Colton Herta	Andretti Harding Steinbrenner Autosport	80	1:42'24.411	25.088
5	Rinus van Kalmthout	Ed Carpenter Racing	80	1:42'24.959	25.636
6	Marcus Ericsson	Chip Ganassi Racing	80	1:42'25.036	25.713
7	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	80	1:42'31.220	31.897
8	Patricio O'Ward	Arrow McLaren SP	80	1:42'33.159	33.836
9	Santino Ferrucci	Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan	80	1:42'42.370	43.046
10	Takuma Sato	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	80	1:42'44.214	44.891
11	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	80	1:42'45.490	46.167
12	Conor Daly	Ed Carpenter Racing	80	1:42'49.300	49.977
13	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	80	1:42'49.812	50.489
14	Zach Veach	Andretti Autosport	80	1:42'51.540	52.217
15	Felix Rosenqvist	Chip Ganassi Racing	80	1:42'56.011	56.688
16	Max Chilton	Carlin	80	1:42'59.554	1'00.231
17	Jack Harvey	Meyer Shank Racing	80	1:43'03.168	1'03.845
18	Charlie Kimball	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	80	1:43'04.842	1'05.519
19	Alex Palou	Dale Coyne Racing with Team Goh	80	1:43'05.801	1'06.478
20	Will Power	Team Penske	80	1:43'10.936	1'11.612
21	Dalton Kellett	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	79	1:42'08.366	1 Lap
22	Marco Andretti	Andretti Herta Autosport with Marco & Curb-Agajani	79	1:43'01.215	1 Lap
23	Sage Karam	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	79	1:43'01.298	1 Lap
24	Spencer Pigot	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing with Citrone/Buhl A	74	1:37'21.696	6 Laps
25	Alexander Rossi	Andretti Autosport	41	1:21'29.670	39 Laps
26	Oliver Askew	Arrow McLaren SP	34	42'09.979	46 Laps
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