Some numbers to note from the fifth Iowa Corn Indy 250 presented by Pioneer at the Iowa Speedway:
2: Top-five finishes needed by Tony Kanaan, the runner-up at Iowa, to reach 100 in his Indy car career.
3: Consecutive top-10 finishes for Danica Patrick in the No. 7 Team GoDaddy car for Andretti Autosport. It was her fourth consecutive top 10 at Iowa Speedway.
4: Best start of the season for rookie JR Hildebrand, who posted his second top-five finish with a fourth place in the No. 4 National Guard Panther Racing car.
5: Different winners this season (Dario Franchitti, Will Power, Mike Conway, Dan Wheldon, Marco Andretti).
9: Lead changes among five drivers.
16: Fewest cars running at the finish this season.
20: Positions gained by Scott Dixon, the most in the 25-car field. He finished third in the No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car.
38: Victories for Andretti Autosport in the IZOD IndyCar Series.
60: Percent of the time the driver is turning on a lap at the .875-mile Iowa Speedway.
72: Most cautions laps this season.
78: Starts between Marco Andretti’s first and second wins in Indy car.
172: Laps led by Franchitti, who increased his series-leading total to 588. Power (225) is next.
177.853: Fastest lap (136) in mph by Alex Tagliani, who finished 16th in the No. 77 Bowers & Wilkins car for Sam Schmidt Motorsports (18.0958 seconds).
1,233: Laps completed by Franchitti, driver of the No. 10 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car, of 1,233.
4,213: Career laps led by Helio Castroneves, which is 24 shy of Paul Tracy’s all-time record.
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