Team Penske drivers Helio Castroneves and Ryan Briscoe will start on the front row for Sunday’s Iowa Corn Indy 250 presented by Pioneer based on entrant points after PEAK Performance Pole Qualifying was cancelled.
It didn’t rain at the track Saturday, but heavy rain from Friday and earlier in the week caused persistent weepers in several locations on the .875-mile oval. Qualifying was cancelled for the first time since last June’s race at Iowa.
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The No. 3 Team Penske car driven by Castroneves leads the entrant points thanks to two wins and a second by Castroneves and a sixth at St. Petersburg by fill-in driver Will Power. Briscoe, the leader in the driver points, is second in entrant points.
Target Chip Ganassi Racing drivers Scott Dixon and Dario Franchitti will start third and fourth, respectively, and Andretti Green’s Danica Patrick will start fifth.
Also on Saturday, Ana Beatriz earned her second career Firestone Indy Lights victory, passing Sam Schmidt Motorsports teammate Wade Cunningham with nine laps to go in the Miller Lite 100.
Cunningham, who finished second at Iowa in 2007 after leading 105 of 115 laps, passed pole sitter J.R. Hildebrand for the lead on Lap 4 and led the next 103 laps. He and Beatriz caught up to Sebastian Saavedra on the backstretch on Lap 107, and Beatriz was able to get past on the high side while Cunningham was forced to slow.
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Newton, IA - Starting lineup for the Iowa Corn Indy 250 Presented by Pioneer IndyCar Series event on the .875-mile Iowa Speedway, with starting position, car number in parentheses, driver, chassis-engine after PEAK Performance Pole Qualifying was cancelled due to weather. Lineup set by entrant points.
1. (3) Helio Castroneves, Dallara-Honda 2. (6) Ryan Briscoe, Dallara-Honda 3. (9) Scott Dixon, Dallara-Honda 4. (10) Dario Franchitti, Dallara-Honda 5. (7) Danica Patrick, Dallara-Honda 6. (4) Dan Wheldon, Dallara-Honda 7. (11) Tony Kanaan, Dallara-Honda 8. (26) Marco Andretti, Dallara-Honda 9. (02) Graham Rahal, Dallara-Honda 10. (18) Justin Wilson, Dallara-Honda 11. (27) Hideki Mutoh, Dallara-Hond 12. (2) Raphael Matos, Dallara-Honda 13. (20) Ed Carpenter, Dallara-Honda 14. (06) Robert Doornbos, Dallara-Honda 15. (5) Mario Moraes, Dallara-Honda 16. (19) Tomas Scheckter, Dallara-Honda 17. (21) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Dallara-Honda 18. (13) E.J. Viso, Dallara-Honda 19. (24) Mike Conway, Dallara-Honda 20. (98) Jaques Lazier, Dallara-Honda
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